Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: slanting
IPA transcription: [sl'æntɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, slanting, sloped, sloping
    Meaning: having an oblique or slanted direction
Usage examples
  • One side of the rock was broken by a slanting gully.
  • Brion looked unhappily at the slanting and broken ramp, then cupped his hands and shouted loudly.
  • A slanting cleft in the stone could be climbed easily, but it seemed incredible that this might be the only entrance.
  • Later, his smile became crooked, the left side of his mouth slanting upward, and Quicksand got ready to stand from under.
  • The next moment she had scrambled over the sill, pulled the window down after her, and walked down the slanting board to the ground.
  • Up into the air shot the nose of the Red Cloud as the wind struck the slanting surface of the planes, and, a moment later it was sailing high above the heads of the throng.
  • There are long ropes and short ropes, upright and slanting, straight and bent, taut and slack, all criss-cross and a-tangle, to the height of three feet or so in inextricable disorder.
  • It consisted of the plank platform on which he stood, a wooden house, half painted, with a dirty piazza (unroofed) in front, and a sign board hung on a slanting pole--bearing the legend, "Hotel.