She lives diagonally across the street from us. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Noun : He advanced his bishop along the open diagonal. From Dictionary.com.
A Wonder Bread sandwich, cut in 2 pieces diagonally, is simply in a class of its own. From Wordnik.com. [I Should Not Have Come.....] Reference
Having satisfied their curiosity they disappeared over the hills diagonally from the river down stream. From Wordnik.com. [With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior] Reference
A dark figure crossed the compound diagonally from the beach gate, where whoever it was had been watching the vessel. From Wordnik.com. [A Discourse on Manners] Reference
There are Banamex, in both Chapala and ajijic (right on the Southwest corner) of the Plaza, diagonally from the policia station. From Wordnik.com. [Ajijic Banks] Reference
The screen measures 12.1 inches diagonally which is 2 or 3 inches bigger than most netbook screens. From Wordnik.com. [OSNN News] Reference
Dave took a route across the lake diagonally from Anseton. From Wordnik.com. [Dave Dashaway and His Hydroplane] Reference
Metropolitan Theatre was in progress diagonally opposite us. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Suddenly, he pointed to the west, up the mountain diagonally. From Wordnik.com. [Playground in the Fire] Reference
A middle-aged man in a turban gets seated diagonally across from me. From Wordnik.com. [The Line] Reference
We recently tested 10 frames that measured 7 or 8 inches diagonally. From Wordnik.com. [Digital picture frames: Models for Mother’s Day] Reference
Try to back away diagonally, but if the bear follows you, hold your ground. From Wordnik.com. [OUTDOORS: WHEN BEARS ATTACK!] Reference
Always, I sought the corners of rooms diagonally farthest from the entrance. From Wordnik.com. [Me, Watching] Reference
The whole frame is braced with piano wire set diagonally between the struts. From Wordnik.com. [British Airships, Past, Present, and Future] Reference
The part of the trunk crossing the gulch lies diagonally and is forty-four feet long. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The mouth, an oversize screwcap, sits at the corner diagonally across from the handle. From Wordnik.com. [Love ‘em or hate ‘em: Those new-fangled milk containers at big club stores] Reference
It is this system which gives the diagonally-cut appearance to the model (see Fig. 28). From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
The tie was wedged diagonally across the track, and the flange had cut a deep groove in it. From Wordnik.com. [Tom of the Raiders] Reference
Lex, diagonally across from me, pivots his shoulders, squaring up to me like an enraged bull. From Wordnik.com. [SUPER DAD flies coach] Reference
The great, fresh wound extended diagonally across the abdomen and branched up beneath the heart. From Wordnik.com. [The Memory of Mars] Reference
Serve and top with seared tuna (cut diagonally in half), then sprinkle with fried leeks, Serves four. From Wordnik.com. [What's Cooking: Updating An Old Favorite] Reference
Concurrently, the book's text moves backward, upside down and diagonally, sometimes on the same page. From Wordnik.com. [A Spooky But Literary 'Blair Witch Project'] Reference
And on the floor, if you're over 6 feet tall, you can sleep diagonally - or squeeze two people down there. From Wordnik.com. [Do-It-Yourself Downsize: How To Build A Tiny House] Reference
Notably, many of these feature widescreens that measure about 4.3 inches diagonally, rather than 3.5 inches. From Wordnik.com. [Best GPS values: Basic navigators] Reference
Taking his time, he removed the hood and threw it in the trunk of his white sedan, which was parked diagonally. From Wordnik.com. [September 1969] Reference
The king doesn't have to walk in horizontal or vertical lines, he can run diagonally or zig-zag across the field. From Wordnik.com. [Lubomir Kavalek: Chess Puzzles: Richard Reti's Marvelous Squares] Reference
Flow occurs as we move diagonally away from the intersection of these two axes toward the upper right hand corner. From Wordnik.com. [Chip Conley: Living Downwind from the Flower Shop] Reference
• Start with a diaper backpack or messenger-style diaper bag that you can wear diagonally across your body. From Wordnik.com. [The well-stocked diaper bag] Reference
An old sawmill with an undershot water-wheel stood at the extreme south-east corner of the farm, diagonally opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Hidden Treasure] Reference
The boat was crossing diagonally to our course, and I was leisurely getting out line, when a trout plucked at the fly. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
The inertia threw him to the right, and the edge of the vinyl seat-belt cut his stomach diagonally through his clothes. From Wordnik.com. [s Vacation] Reference
Too large to fit in the small bed there, they had had to lay him diagonally across, his blood leaking out onto the pillow. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Lincoln Died] Reference
Across the room, diagonally from the door, there was a large window over the sink, which looked out onto the cross street. From Wordnik.com. [One Thousand Incarnations and One Thousand Deaths - Part I] Reference
Last March, South Korea's Samsung Electronics introduced the world's largest LCD television, measuring 82 inches diagonally. From Wordnik.com. [End of the Big Binge] Reference
They allow you to read the paper on a screen that, at six inches measured diagonally, is larger than that on any cell phone. From Wordnik.com. [Newspaper-friendly Kindle, Sony Reader coming, say reports] Reference
The knife sliced through its rectangular heart diagonally, and the hand turned the two halves around to make a perfect heart. From Wordnik.com. [Food Porn] Reference
She was broadsided in the parking lot of Lakeside Shopping Center by a girl who was cutting diagonally across the empty spaces. From Wordnik.com. [Three Cigarette Stories.] Reference
Cody glanced at his bed and imagined his body lying diagonally in it, as it usually would, to make the mattress seem less vacant. From Wordnik.com. [misshaped planet] Reference
(For contrast, the Oregon screen measures 3 inches diagonally, and the more pocket-friendly eTrex Venture HC measures 2.1 inches.). From Wordnik.com. [New handheld hiking GPS devices: Garmin Dakota and Foretrex] Reference
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