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 • May 24, 2022

“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

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

The timbers of small corrals were broken, well housings aslant, outhouses blown over and destroyed.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols