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

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

On one side, they are little more than sinuous vertical shapes aslant the screen’s three panels; on the reverse, they crowd at the left while their open, interlacing tails cover the two right-hand panels.

From New York Times • Nov. 1, 2014

This is the first time I’ve ever seen Ofglen’s eyes, directly, steadily, not aslant.

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood