slanting

Speech parts

1. slanting - Noun

2. slanting - Adjective

3. slanting - Verb

5. slanting - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Slant

Oblique; sloping.

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Examples

I stood tip-toe upon a little hill, The air was cooling, and so very still, That the sweet buds which with a modest pride Pull droopingly, in slanting curve aside, Their scantly leaved, and finely tapering stems, Had not yet lost those starry diadems Caught from the early sobbing of the morn. John Keats

I want to be understood by my country, but if I fail to be understood – what then?, I shall pass through my native land to one side, like a shower of slanting rain. Vladimir Mayakovsky

In winter, when the dismal rain comes down in slanting lines, and wind, that grand old harper, smote his thunder-harp of pines. Alexander Smith

When I was little there was a picture in one of our books, a dark place into which a single weak ray of light came slanting upon two faces lifted out of the shadow. William Faulkner

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses. F. Scott Fitzgerald

He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man. Henry David Thoreau

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