oblique

Better are her more oblique turns—realistic scenes with strange underpinnings.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026

Though many critics and historians have tried, it’s impossible to get to the true root of a work as oblique as “Possession.”

From Salon ● Jul. 17, 2026

Some of the content is oblique -- vendors often post images of animals or parts for sale without any price or explanation.

From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026

He missed the last five regular-season games with the oblique injury suffered on April 2 at Oklahoma City and the first four first-round playoff games against the Rockets.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 24, 2026

On the far right was a large house that looked straight to the most oblique curve in the river.

From "The Great Santini" by Pat Conroy

Tuesday, he said he felt much better, focusing on his core and obliques.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 10, 2026

For just $2,599, this sleek and sturdy item offers users plate-loaded core training in a seated position, and a swivel seat to easily transition to targeting your obliques.

From Slate ● Jun. 24, 2023

“You never know with obliques but I don’t think it’s as bad as we thought it would be,” manager Charlie Montoyo said before the Blue Jays concluded a four-game series at Yankee Stadium.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 14, 2022

They didn’t have to cut through the muscle tissue in his obliques to remove his appendix, and the morning after the surgery, Olsen was back on his feet and texting teammates with encouraging news.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 7, 2018

The fourth pair supply the superior obliques, and the sixth the external recti; so that III.,

From Text Book of Biology, Part 1: Vertebrata by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

That gallant soldier threw his men on the exposed flank of the column which had obliqued, bent to the right.

From The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo by Cyrus Townsend Brady

When we struck the snow-patch slope we obliqued over to our trail up, and began to back track.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

In doing this we obliqued to the southwest to escape a heavy fire now reaching us from the north and the quicker to get protection from the rolling ground.

From A Historic Sketch Lest We Forget Company E 26th Ohio Infantry by Walden Kelly

They were moving toward us, so we obliqued toward them, with our shadows cast long by the low sun.

From Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies by Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand) Sabin

The instant his back was turned, the old man obliqued crabwise to the side of the road.

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 31, No. 1, May 1908 by Various

If at half step or mark time while obliquing, the oblique march is resumed by the commands: 1 Oblique, 2.

From Manual for Noncommissioned Officers and Privates of Cavalry of the Army of the United States 1917 to be also used by Engineer Companies (Mounted) for Cavalry Instruction and Training by U. S. War Department

In this way I should rise by steps, as it were, obliquing always in the direction of the hatchway.

From The Boy Tar by Edward Read

If at half step or mark time while obliquing, Oblique, March.

From Military Instructors Manual by Oliver Schoonmaker

If at halfstep or mark time while obliquing, the oblique march is resumed by the commands: 1.

From Manual of Military Training Second, Revised Edition by James A. (James Alfred) Moss

When my brigade had moved far around upon the left, and had taken position, obliquing toward the enemy's rear, it suddenly opened.

From History of Morgan's Cavalry by Basil Wilson Duke