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

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

Even for readers who prefer the sensation of moving ahead to moving aslant, “Texas Blood” is a rich journey.

From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2018

A little creek trickled aslant the faded markings and there were the delicate pictorial indications of lowly huts, in one of which Ching’s grandfather had been born.

From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov