slant
verb (used without object)
to veer or angle away from a given level or line, especially from a horizontal; slope.
slantingly
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a word derived from
slant.
Example Sentences
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The breeze was on her beam, and much fresher with her than farther in the bay, so that the feluccas steered slantingly across her course as she made for the rock.
From Tales from Blackwood, Volume 1 by Various
You go forward slantingly toward the Ever Summer Land.
From Hawk Eye by David Cory
The grinding is done upon a stone set slantingly on the ground.
From American Indians by Frederick Starr
The light of a distant Earth, struck slantingly across to leave this face of the pyramid in half-darkness.
From Brood of the Dark Moon by Charles Willard Diffin
Gently feeling with his fingers, he found that the barb had only slantingly penetrated the fleshy part of the dog's thigh.
From Hawk Eye by David Cory
