diagonals
- plural of diagonal.
Example Sentences
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For once there was a justification for Mr. Koolhaas’s sportive diagonals.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 20, 2026
He will sit deep when required and push high when he can; will play neat possession football in some fixtures and tell his players to hit longer diagonals out to the wide men in others.
From BBC • Nov. 1, 2024
The result is a strikingly fantastical depiction of the city now known as Beijing, using, Hockney added, “harsh edges, strong diagonals, mad perspectives.”
From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2024
With the help of a local sign painter, she spent three days creating enormous spatial illusions: bold diagonals, circles, arrows, letters and blocks of bull’s-eye colors.
From New York Times • May 8, 2024
I imagined a magic square to calm down, all the rows and columns and diagonals adding up to fifteen.
From "The Lions of Little Rock" by Kristin Levine
