slantways
Example Sentences
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He looked slantways out of the corners of his eyes.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slantways from the slate sky, like water from a sluice.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
"Stand on this box," said Joe to Dodo, "and look hard at that small slantways branch, with the little bunch on it!"
From Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners by Louis Agassiz Fuertes
The sun was round to the west and threw long, golden rays, that were all lovely light and no heat, slantways on the paved floor and the polished tables and the bright pewter.
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
The speaker was even larger than the Galway man, and his face was made curious by a purple cut running slantways from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth.
From Captains Courageous by Rudyard Kipling
