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• The slanting of the hill was too steep for safe skiing.From the entry slanting
• The news report was slanted in favor of the nationalists.From the entry slanted
• “Imouto sae Ireba Ii” - Adaptation of a light novel with a strong siscon slant.2017 September 19, Dave Baranyi, “Fall 2017 New Anime Try--Out List”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet). From the entry siscon
• The parachute was on a slant in the air and threatened at any minute to roman candle.2017, Wilhelm Johnen, Battling the Bombers. From the entry roman candle
• Each story of self-education has, to be sure, its period slant.2011 October 17, Adam Gopnik, “Broken Kingdom”, in The New Yorker. From the entry Victorianly
• But I still don't trust this sorry slant eyed rice eater.2010, Edward Cerda, Full Moon, →ISBN. From the entry rice eater
• Hanke took over, the paper was on a downslide, known for slanting the news to support Republicans.2009 March 22, Michael Winerip, “He Has Both Sides Covered”, in New York Times. From the entry downslide
• This evokes the medieval tradition of speculum-literature with its strong didactic slant.2007, Cordula Politis, The Individualization of Fortune in the Sixteenth-Century Novels of Jorg Wickram: The Beginnings of the Modern…. From the entry speculum-literature
• To read this, slant the page down in line with your eye.1966 September, “Are You Puzzled?”, in Listen: Journal of Better Living, volume 19, number 9, page 16. From the entry Eye-Q
• J.) printer, has been using a direct-mail campaign slanted toward this problem.1957, Printers' Ink, volume 260, page 43. From the entry mailer
• We will decidedly have to resist the Christian or more generally testamentary (paleo- or neotestamentary) slant of this discourse.2017, “The Ci-Devant God”, in Philippe Lynes, transl., Advances, Minneapolis, Minn.: Univocal, the University of Minnesota Press…. From the entry paleotestamentary
• A Twombly-inspired canvas with slanted scribbles of white on a black background feels less forced, perhaps because Ms.2008 June 20, Karen Rosenberg, “Veiled or Naked: Scrutinizing Women’s Roles”, in New York Times. From the entry stitchwork
• After seeing an orange roll across the slanting floor, the assessor lowered the building's tax value, according to company lore.2006, Greg Tasker, Sanders Confectionery, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry tax value
• Recollections tattooed with stiletto reasons and a sorrowful slant of light admitting of dystopiae already petrified in progress.2003, Judith Fitzgerald, Adagios: Iphigenia’s Song, Oberon Press, →ISBN, page 50. From the entry dystopia
• Recording contracts were unblushingly slanted in the company's favor.1990, Wayne Jancik, The Billboard Book of One-Hit Wonders, →ISBN, page vi. From the entry unblushingly
• Research by the meat and dairy industries has been slanted.1982 February, Paavo Airola, “Plant Sources of Vitamin B12”, in Vegetarian Times, →ISSN, page 88. From the entry spirulina
• Arrington has given a new slant to this experiment.1971, The Western Humanities Review. From the entry orderite
• Twenty-five hundred hands snapped at a slant to the hats.1951, Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny, Doubleday & Company, Inc., page 38. From the entry straggle
• The number of stitches between the decreasings decreases with every round, so that the decreasings form slanting lines meeting in a point.2016, Mrs. Beeton, Book of Needlework, page 54. From the entry decreasing
• There it is: an octagonal shaped white house with a thatched roof, my bedroom with the grey sea-light streaming through slanted windows.2013, Jan Campbell, Freudian Passions: Psychoanalysis, Form and Literature, →ISBN. From the entry sea-light
• I don't even recognize the handwriting – kind of a scrawled, almost illegible cacography with the letters slanting haphazardly in all directions.2010, Martin L. Buxbaum, Negotiations with the Sniper: Book One, page 63. From the entry cacography
• He is certainly aware to a certain extent that some of what is being “accounted” is slanted in the general direction of American “well-meaningness.”2009, LeRoi Jones, Home: Social Essays, page 53. From the entry well-meaningness
• The two forms are joined by the imposing public lobby, its glass facade slanting back dramatically from the street to evoke a glistening mountainscape.2007 July 14, Nicolai Ouroussoff, “A Fine View, on the Outside at Least”, in New York Times. From the entry mountainscape
• He also instantly recognised the slant in the line of three stars of the Saucepan which he knew spills the rain in January.2006, Alexis Wright, Carpentaria, Constable (2009), page 485. From the entry saucepan
• The "regular umlaut" with the dieresis dots originated from a form with two vertical or slanted strokes (not unlike the "hungarumlaut" speaking in typographical terms).2003 July 12, Andreas Höfeld, “Re: middle age font”, in comp.fonts (Usenet). From the entry hungarumlaut
• The shot went half a shaft-length deep, slanting from the third neckplate of his helmet toward the base of his left ear.2001, Hōgen Monogatari: Tale of the Disorder in Hōgen, Cornell East Asia Series, page 42. From the entry neckplate
• Out under the trees, some rangers had found enough duff and dry wood to start a fire beneath a slanting ridge of slate.1999, George R.R. Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam, published 2011, page 366. From the entry duff
• Slanting in echelon NE, the three Jap perimeters outguarded four P Perimeters some distance south which had defeated the Aussie tank attack 12 Jan.1997, Dr. Hargis Westefield, Joe Murphy, “Infighting at Sanananda”, in 41st Infantry Division: Fighting Jungleers, page xxxix. From the entry outguard
• He was a stuggy little man, with very small eyes set rather slanting in his square face, and a jaw like a pike.1986, Philip Mason, Call the Next Witness, page 50. From the entry stuggy
• The editors, who were all actively attempting to prevent the article from being rewritten with a pro-Gamergate slant, were sanctioned by “arbcom” in its preliminary decision.2015 January 23, Alex Hern, “Wikipedia votes to ban some editors from gender-related articles”, in The Guardian. From the entry arbcom
• I had stumbled into the spare room — a nooklike study, an afterthought with a slanted ceiling — tucked in between the main rooms on Kurt's second floor.2008, Justin Evans, A Good and Happy Child. From the entry nooklike
• He stood on the porch with hands in his pockets, rocking on his slanted heels, squinting with his webbed eyes, wearing a curl to his lips.1997, Jere Hoar, “The Incredible Little Louisiana Chicken Killer”, in Body Parts, Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, →ISBN…. From the entry overrespect

Meaning of slant

1. noun A slope; an incline, inclination.
2. noun A sloped surface or line.
3. noun A run: a heading driven diagonally between the dip and strike of a coal seam.

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Questions about slant in a sentence

How do you use slant in a sentence?

Slant is used as a noun, verb and adjective. For example: “The house was built on a bit of a slant and was never quite level.”

What is a short sentence with slant?

“a magazine slanted toward the youth market”

What does slant mean?

Slant means a slope; an incline, inclination.