Verb (used with object) : He slanted the news story to discredit the Administration. ,a story slanted toward young adults. From Dictionary.com.
Noun : the slant of a roof. ,His mind shows a curious slant. ,Let him give you his slant. ,His column always has a humorous slant. From Dictionary.com.
Adjective : a slant roof; a slant approach. From Dictionary.com.
San Diego because it receives the sun's rays more slantingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Western United States A Geographical Reader] Reference
They had to work the raft slantingly across the current of the. From Wordnik.com. [Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon] Reference
The sunlight fell slantingly across the room, gleaming in James. From Wordnik.com. [The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story] Reference
The ship appeared to be drifting slantingly toward its farther edge. From Wordnik.com. [The Other Side Of Nowhere]
There's a regular crevice running slantingly up the face of the rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Saddle Boys in the Grand Canyon or The Hermit of the Cave] Reference
He raised the spear and plunged it slantingly down into the hideous body. From Wordnik.com. [The Raid on the Termites] Reference
I could see the green effulgence of the Star-light shining in, slantingly. From Wordnik.com. [The House on the Borderland] Reference
We rose and sailed slantingly toward them, but they had already started to disperse. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaoh's Broker Being the Very Remarkable Experiences in Another World of Isidor Werner] Reference
He looked up slantingly through the branches, and saw the shadow of a huntsman pass directly over him. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
People slantingly along the beach for perhaps a hundred yards before they waded out and cast them away. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
As the clerk spoke he looked slantingly on the page, as a person might do to discover if some writing were dry. From Wordnik.com. [The Hand of Ethelberta] Reference
It was at the time of mid-afternoon, when the sun's rays pour slantingly with grand effect upon the Temple site. From Wordnik.com. [Byeways in Palestine] Reference
She was approaching the high road along an affluent from the villas of Surbiton. fee roads converged slantingly. From Wordnik.com. [The Wheels of Chance: a bicycling idyll] Reference
I saw her plunge into them, and Moreau, running slantingly to intercept her, fired and missed as she disappeared. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
The last three words scrawled slantingly down the page; they were in large and heavier writing -- they looked like a cry. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
From one point a thin white thread of vapour rose slantingly to an immense height, and then frayed out like a down feather. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
This may be observed when a rod is placed slantingly in a vessel of clear water; the part immersed will appear bent or broken. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
He reset the search pattern and at once the suit took off, slantingly, behind the trees, the jets muted to a faint insect drone. From Wordnik.com. [Behold the Stars]
The lane opened slantingly into the main road with a narrow opening, and had a delusive appearance of coming from the direction of London. From Wordnik.com. [The War of the Worlds] Reference
Then take it out, and drain it, laying it slantingly. From Wordnik.com. [Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches] Reference
Jonathan dodged as some object glanced slantingly before his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Trail] Reference
The brisk short crackle of the steel driven slantingly into the pine. From Wordnik.com. [The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman] Reference
Set the vernier on zero and look slantingly through the horizon glass. From Wordnik.com. [Lectures in Navigation] Reference
Roughens, then stings and spurs the wavelets slantingly fretted -- 270. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
A leg of the charger extended slantingly upward precisely as stiff as a stake. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Regiment] Reference
"Swans fly slantingly, cranes in triangles, and plovers in serpentine windings.". From Wordnik.com. [The Sand-Hills of Jutland] Reference
They arose slantingly, and under them he found a dry spot, well sheltered from the rain. From Wordnik.com. [On the Trail of Pontiac] Reference
Pratt's head, but it grazed the tip of his ear, and fell slantingly on his left shoulder. From Wordnik.com. [The Talleyrand Maxim] Reference
And in her eyes there was a curious red glint where the light fell slantingly upon the pupil. From Wordnik.com. [The Doomsman] Reference
But it was too far away for him, and it struck slantingly on one of the back posts, rolling off toward the grandstand. From Wordnik.com. [The Rover Boys Under Canvas or The Mystery of the Wrecked Submarine] Reference
Then he entered an opposite room -- all were unlocked now -- from which, slantingly through the deadlight, he saw lights. From Wordnik.com. [The Wreck of the Titan or, Futility] Reference
There was a metal girder, quite separate from the ship, which had apparently been set up slantingly in the ice since the landing. From Wordnik.com. [Long Ago, Far Away] Reference
The cannon with their noses poked slantingly at the ground grunted and grumbled like stout men, brave but with objections to hurry. From Wordnik.com. [The Red Badge of Courage] Reference
His eye drooped, his look was listless, he gazed at other things; while a glance that you had not noticed, flashed slantingly at la. From Wordnik.com. [Don Rodriguez; chronicles of Shadow Valley] Reference
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