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as adverb‘the bird veers and drops slantwise towards the wood’
‘Horses jammed the ford over the stream; Michael crossed above them, galloping slantwise across the slope after the belling pack, stretched low on his horse's neck to clear the branches.’
‘The child dashed across the macadam while the rain cut slantwise through the air.’
‘Rain is slashing slantwise, mixing with spray from waves smashing into jetty walls.’
‘The most controversial and dramatic elements of the building, the 14 thermal chimneys. are clearly related to the pilaster-like piers by patinated aluminium bronze plate ducts which run slantwise across the roof slope.’
‘He looked at his dad slantwise, and was satisfied when his father snorted amusedly and waved him on.’
‘She settled herself onto the couch, slantwise, half reclining, supported by plush cushions, and kicked off her shoes.’
‘She smiles, perhaps, but the light touches her slantwise, so I can't be sure.’
at a slant, on the slant, at an angle, not straight, slanting, slanted, slantwise, slant, oblique, leaning, inclining, inclined, angled, cambered, canted