Use slant in a sentence
Sentences ending with slant
- Approaching the equator on a long slant. [5]
More example sentences with the word slant in them
- The mountain side was so steep that the entire town had a slant to it like a roof. [5]
- The trenches slant toward the well and carry into it the rainfall. [5]
- Two or three times during the afternoon we saw wonderfully dense and beautiful forests, tumultuously piled skyward on the broken highlands--not the customary roof-like slant of a hillside, where the trees are all the same height. [5]
- From the walls the vineyards and olive groves of the estate slant away toward the valley.... [5]
- I crept to the top of it and lay there on the slant of the muck to watch. [5]
- At 90 degrees the oak stops short; to slant upward another degree would mark infirmity of purpose; to bend downwards, weakness of organization. [6]
- The curve of the great stone bridge had caught the sunrise, and through the magnificent arch burst a glorious stream of gold that shone with a long slant down into the center of Surprise Valley. [13]
- One end of the board was four, inches higher than the other, and so the slant answered for a pillow. [5]
- It seemed incredible that that thing should creep straight up a sharp slant like the roof of a house--but there it was, and it was doing that very miracle. [5]
- It was planted straight up the mountain with the slant of a ladder that leans against a house, and it seemed to us that man would need good nerves who proposed to travel up it or down it either. [5]
- So they wisely started northward, with a slight slant to the west. [5]
- Turning this extreme southwestern corner, we now take a long straight slant nearly N. W., without a break, for Ceylon. [5]
- So we moved south with a westward slant, 17 hours by rail to the capital of the colony of Victoria, Melbourne--that juvenile city of sixty years, and half a million inhabitants. [5]
- I would as soon taking an airing on the slant of a rainbow as in such a front yard. [5]
- I can still see the trees and bushes growing smaller and smaller as I followed them up its huge slant with my eye, till they became a feathery fringe on the distant summit. [5]
- From the balcony of our rooms at the Bellevue, the long range of the Bernese Oberland shows its white summits for a moment in the slant sunshine, and then the clouds shut down, not to lift again for two days. [4]
- I told the man to slant his machine in the proper direction and let us be off. [5]
- They've got their machine to working a thousand to the minute, and everybody they have a slant on is going into line. [9]
- Beside him, holding his hand she slipped down the shelf, ran down the long, steep slant of sliding stones, out of the cloud of dust, and likewise out of the pale gloom. [13]
- The roofs, which had no slant to them worth speaking of, were thatched and then sodded or covered with a thick layer of earth, and from this sprung a pretty rank growth of weeds and grass. [5]
- Then all sit down, and you have a solid mass of fifteen hundred heads, making a steep cellar-door slant from the rear of the house down to the stage. [5]
- The passage narrowed as he went up; it became a slant, hard for him to stick on; it was smooth as marble. [13]
- The tangled thicket and the long slant of dust and little chips of weathered rock and the steep bench of stone and the worn steps all were arduous work for Bess in the climbing. [13]
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