slanting

Example Sentences

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Slanting shadows, rooms like cells, muted sound, a sense of emotional twilight.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

Slanting the dialogue of a major theatrical gangbuster toward hesitation or negativity only feeds the slop machine.

From Salon • Apr. 26, 2025

Slanting winter sunlight illuminated the white-columned walls of the club’s dining room.

From New York Times • Feb. 4, 2020

Slanting silver rods of rain beat down onto the wet gravel.

From The New Yorker • Apr. 8, 2019

Slanting rain hit the bars of the window-grill and shattered into a fine spray over her face and her smooth bare arm.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy