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How to use obliquely in a sentence

16 example sentences · adverb

Obliquely means in an oblique manner; sideways. Example: “In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent.”

More sentences with obliquely

  • In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent.From the entry reference
  • The email from HR obliquely informed her that some complaints about her had been received.From the entry oblique
  • They found out obliquely that she had heard from HR about the comments and was taking some time to absorb the sting of an implied reprimand.From the entry oblique
  • On the map Gansu is shaped like a dumbbell lying obliquely from east to west.2007, “The Years before the End of the War”, in A Girl From Shanghai: The Story of Lillian Hsu, a Medical Geneticist, a NTU Medical…. From the entry dumbbell
  • Ligament which stretches over the surface of the uterus, running obliquely from the podex to the raceme.1942, Fabricius (ab Aquapendente), Howard Bernhardt Adelmann (translator), The Embryological Treatises of Hieronymus Fabricius of…. From the entry podex
  • But what can we gain from approaching the world obliquely?2000 [1995], François Jullien, “Preface”, in Sophie Hawkes, transl., Detour and Access: Strategies of Meaning in China and Greece [Le…. From the entry head-on
  • The least likely of this January’s diets came, obliquely, from Kendall Jenner’s official app and was a colour rather than a book.2017 January 10, Morwenna Ferrier, “This colour might change your life: Kendall Jenner and Baker-Miller Pink”, in The Guardian. From the entry Baker-Miller pink
  • Small shocky structures can be created on the surface of a basin of water by blowing at it obliquely with a household fan.2013, G.L. Geernaert, W.J. Plant, Surface Waves and Fluxes: Volume II — Remote Sensing, →ISBN, page 146. From the entry shocky
  • 'Social development' could obliquely mean a new Chinese invasion - a massive influx of Chinese settlers, drawn by financial incentives and tax breaks.2006 August, Michael Buckley, Tibet (Bradt Travel Guides), 2nd edition, Globe Pequot Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →OL, page 17. From the entry Golmud
  • Finally, levator costae and levatores costarum originate at the transverse processes of each vertebrae and, running obliquely downward and outward, attach to the ribs below.2001, Theodore Dimon, Anatomy of the Moving Body: A Basic Course in Bones, Muscles, and Joints, page 27. From the entry levator costae
  • It was the principle of the helicopteron which rises because it strikes the air obliquely as if it were moving along an inclined plane.1913, The Boy’s Own Annual, page 313, column 2. From the entry helicopteron
  • We’re Open is categorised as mallsoft, the vaporwave subgenre which evokes the sounds and atmosphere of shopping malls, and which obliquely references their current, precarious state.2021, Roisin Kiberd, The Disconnect: A Personal Journey Through the Internet, Serpent’s Tail, →ISBN. From the entry mallsoft
  • I was looking, obliquely, at Bunny slumped over his bowl when all of a sudden, in the window behind his head, I saw the distant figure of Mr.1992, Donna Tartt, The Secret History. From the entry curlicue
  • A long sun ray shot to the zenith from the beclouded west, crossing obliquely in a faint red bar the purple band of sky above the ravine.1903, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Hueffer [i.e., Ford Madox Ford], chapter X, in Romance […], London: Smith, Elder & Co., […], →OCLC, part…. From the entry becloud
  • Our solid is a 17-sided prism, half of whose section is illustrated in Fig. 5, truncated obliquely as in the side view of Fig. 6, so it is an enneadecahedron.1990, Murray S. Klamkin, Problems in Applied Mathematics: Selections from SIAM Review, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics…. From the entry enneadecahedron
  • Owing probably to the channel lying obliquely to those mud flats, the flood rushes up the river with a bore, the front wave of which may be several feet high.1926, The Journal of Ecology, volumes 14-15, page 312. From the entry merse

Meaning of obliquely

  1. adverb In an oblique manner; sideways.

Full definition of obliquely

Questions about obliquely in a sentence

How do you use obliquely in a sentence?
Obliquely is used as an adverb. For example: “In his speech, the candidate obliquely referenced the past failures of his opponent.”
What is a short sentence with obliquely?
“But what can we gain from approaching the world obliquely?”
What does obliquely mean?
Obliquely means in an oblique manner; sideways.

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