Example Sentences

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Just as the sun is slanting away for the evening, I head into Bricktown, OKC’s first warehouse district that saw a decline in the latter 20th century as industry faded away.

From Washington Times • Nov. 27, 2016

In Silverman's office, the late afternoon sunshine is slanting through the windows, lighting up a Dwight Schrute bobble-head doll and a Heineken-branded mini-fridge.

From BusinessWeek • Mar. 3, 2011

By the time I wake, sunlight is slanting through the trees, making their shadows lean and long.

From "Born Behind Bars" by Padma Venkatraman

The stake is slanting; the Mole touches the ground, but at a point two inches from the base of the gibbet.

From The Wonders of Instinct Chapters in the Psychology of Insects by Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander

More noticeable still—do you see that the small t there is slanting the wrong way?

From In the Mayor's Parlour by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)