sidewise
- a variation of sideways.
Example Sentences
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The Baltimore Oriole relief pitcher Dick Hall pitched “with an awkward, sidewise motion that suggests a man feeling under his bed for a lost collar stud.”
From New York Times ● May 20, 2022
“The Girls” is a sidewise look at the Manson family in the summer of 1969, shearing off names and scrambling other details.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2020
In the novel, the world seen through a speeding car window “surges by like sidewise gravity”.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 9, 2019
He looks sidewise at the correctional officers, and when he is sure they aren’t looking, he puckers his lips to fit them through the iron grid separating him from her, and they kiss.
From The Verge ● Mar. 13, 2019
She was standing stiff and straight on the edge of the curb, her back to the gutter and her dress blowing sidewise in the wind.
From "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" by Betty Smith
