SLANT in a Sentence

Learn SLANT from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

60 example sentences for SLANT, such as:

1. The sun slanted through the window.
2. The early sunset was slanting across the park.
3. He wrote a novel which slanted toward young adults.
4. The handwritings of most languages slant to the right.
5. The sunlight slanted through the windows into the room.

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 Meanings and Examples of SLANT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
slant
 v.  be turned or inclined from a right line or level; lie obliquely; slope; turn from a direct line
Classic Sentence: (52 in 4 pages)
1  In the cold slant of light reflected from the back wall of a neighbouring building, she saw her evening dress and opera cloak lying in a tawdry heap on a chair.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 15
2  She seemed to have lost sight of her friend's part in the incident: her inward vision had taken another slant.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 2
3  When he reached the slant of the wall where he had left Cosette, he noticed that no one could see him there.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER IV—THE GROPINGS OF FLIGHT
4  All the way across the floor, a man, newly come and standing in the doorway, saw them, started in recognition and watched closely the slanting eyes in the sulky, rebellious face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
5  It was a prim, virginal little room and it lay still and warm in the slanting rays of the four-o'clock sun.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
6  Her spirits rose, as always at the sight of her white skin and slanting green eyes, and she smiled to bring out her dimples.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XI
7  The pretty roundness left her face, throwing her cheek bones into prominence, emphasizing her slanting green eyes and giving her the look of a prowling, hungry cat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
8  It was white and strained and the black brows above slanting green eyes swooped up startlingly against the white skin like frightened bird's wings.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXII
9  As her slanting eyebrows rushed down together in a frown Rhett's old smile came back.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXIV
10  The afternoon sun, slanting low through the newly leaved trees, spun sickeningly for a few moments in a swirl of gold and green.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
11  They were hearing drums and bugles and the Rebel yell, seeing footsore men going by in the rain with torn flags slanting.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLI
12  He looked at the slanting green eyes, wide and misty, and the tender curve of her lips and for a moment his breath stopped.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLVII
13  She looked at him with slanting eyes that burned with a desperate obstinacy and the sudden hard line of jaw that sprang out through her soft cheek was Gerald's jaw.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXIII
14  The early sunset was slanting across the park.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: Chapter 4
15  The desk was closed, but on its slanting lid lay two letters which he took up.
House of Mirth By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: Chapter 14
Example Sentence:
1  The handwritings of most languages slant to the right.
2  The political slant at Focus can be described as centre-right.
3  The journalist slanted the report so that the mayor was made to appear incompetent.
4  He wrote a novel which slanted toward young adults.
5  The report was heavily slanted towards the city council's version of events.
6  The sun slanted through the window.
7  The rays of the late sun slanted in streams through the cypress trees.
8  The sunlight slanted through the windows into the room.