Example Sentences

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Administration officials said there was no evidence that Mr. Ratcliffe was slanting intelligence or withholding information from the president.

From New York Times • Oct. 30, 2020

The lunchtime discussion lasted through tea, and eventually the late-afternoon sunlight was slanting through the multicolored alabaster panes of Bushra’s living-room windows.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2018

I wasn't being nosy but in the dim light of the bus, the brightness of his mobile caught my attention even though he was slanting it slightly away from me.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2017

An equerry began to dance with brown-eyed, chestnut-haired, smartly-tanned Miss Eleanor Nichols, daughter of Commander Newton Lord Nichols, U. S. N. A tropic moon was slanting over Panama Bay.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sunlight was slanting now into the palms by the wrecked shelter.

From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding