diagonally

Example Sentences

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Needing to be unfurled twice, like a travel brochure, the smartphone packs a display measuring 10 inches diagonally when fully opened—almost as big as a standard tablet.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 31, 2026

Recall from grade school fraction math that you may cancel diagonally; the two “sales” disappear, as do the “assets.”

From Barron's • Dec. 26, 2025

In the images, several long, nearly parallel features run diagonally across the scene.

From Science Daily • Nov. 26, 2025

The Eastern would stand on land now occupied by a strip mall at an unusually wide intersection where San Vicente Boulevard crosses Wilshire diagonally.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 12, 2025

It was enough that he could pretend to ignore Cecilia’s bare arm at his side—he could feel its heat—and the hostile gaze of Briony who sat diagonally across from him.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan