slantways
- a variation of slantwise.
Example Sentences
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He looked slantways out of the corners of his eyes.
From "The Reader" by Traci Chee
Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slantways from the slate sky, like water from a sluice.
From "Rebecca" by Daphne du Maurier
He threw himself over slantways, and with his head bent as if it was broken, dropped into her arms.
From Life and Death of Harriett Frean by Sinclair, May
So it jumped slantways across the soft, central cushion of the trail into the other track.
From Over Prairie Trails by Grove, Frederick Philip
The speaker was even larger than the Galway man, and his face was made curious by a purple cut running slantways from his left eye to the right corner of his mouth.
From Captains Courageous by Kipling, Rudyard
