aslant
Americanadverb
adjective
preposition
adverb
preposition
Etymology
Origin of aslant
1250–1300; Middle English on slont, on slent on slope, at a slant
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
Around midafternoon I stopped to eat in La Reforma, a small town aslant on the mountainside, scattered on both sides of the road, one building signposted Restaurante Rosa.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 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
As she sized me up, her eyes narrowing, the cigarette hung aslant from her mouth.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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