aslant
Example Sentences
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“The Peanuts Papers” hammers home that fully appreciating Charles M. Schulz’s juggernaut, which ran in newspapers from 1950 to 2000, requires looking aslant at its genre.
From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2019
This increasingly common airport scene, seen slightly aslant, might call to mind The Matrix, when we first realize where Neo has been living his whole life: in a cubicallike, life-supporting vat.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2019
Around midafternoon I stopped to eat in La Reforma, a small town aslant on the mountainside, scattered on both sides of the road, one building signposted Restaurante Rosa.
From New York Times • Sep. 23, 2019
In one of the corn fields a scarecrow caught her eye, crossed staves propped aslant, and the corn husks rotting under it.
From The Guardian • Oct. 26, 2018
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 "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë
