Sentence example with the word 'slantingly'

slantingly

Definition adv. with a slant

Last update: April 18, 2016


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Meantime, Queequeg's impulsive, indifferent sword, sometimes hitting the woof slantingly, or crookedly, or strongly, or weakly, as the case might be; and by this difference in the concluding blow producing a corresponding contrast in the final aspect of the completed fabric; this savage's sword, thought I, which thus finally shapes and fashions both warp and woof; this easy, indifferent sword must be chance--aye, chance, free will, and necessity--nowise incompatible--all interweavingly working together.   [Please select]

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] The hammer-handle had struck slantingly across my forehead, and my head ached from the blow.   [Please select]

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He adjusted his heavy spectacles and held the note slantingly toward the candle.   [Please select]

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At one end of the cleft, from a rocky and shallow roothold, a gnarled birch grew slantingly.   [Please select]

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She had been smashed in some complicated manner that left the upper part of her body intact, and lying slantingly upon pillows.   [Please select]

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Taking a piece of broken wagon tire, he thrust it slantingly into the hole, to hold the serpent a prisoner, and shoving the muzzle of his revolver forward, he let fly.   [Please select]

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slanting - slantingly - slants