aslant

Example Sentences

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A pair of rectangular glasses sit somewhat aslant on his round face, which after weeks of frantic travel and fitful sleep showed signs of enervation.

From New York Times

It led me aslant over the hill, through a wide bog, which would have been impassable in winter, and was splashy and shaking even now, in the height of summer.

From Literature

“It is somewhat awry, with the bow aslant from the stern, but it hath an air, as if it had been battling the storm.”

From Literature

The lovely, unsentimental, heart-affirming ending of Quichotte, that “sane man,” is the aslant answer to the question of what is real and what is unreal.

From New York Times

My father’s exuberant, expansive mind; the comic, necessary, generous-hearted compromises of my parents’ marriage; the origins of my own vocation—they are all there in the Stack, aslant among the books, those other bindings.

From The New Yorker