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Diagonally

Diagonally \Di*ag"o*nal*ly\, adv. In a diagonal direction.

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diagonally

adv. In a diagonal manner, not square to any direction.

WordNet
diagonally

adv. in a diagonal manner; "she lives diagonally across the street from us"

Usage examples of "diagonally".

As she saw the last time, the lines seemed especially predominant near his chin, cheeks, nose, and forehead areas, running mostly vertical on his forehead, diagonally and horizontally on his nose, vertically and diagonally on his chin and cheekbones, with a strange sort of oval or circular pattern around his eyes.

There is a line of sixty or seventy horsemen, all armed, not coming to the fort, but moving diagonally across from the Assiniboine to the Red towards the colony.

The Aston, moving diagonally now and hopelessly unmanageable, slid out towards the edge.

A scatter of the birdcage aliens drifts diagonally across the starship, passing beside and through one another.

She set off diagonally down the slope, staff swinging, making a course of north east as best Harris could judge.

As I understand it, he gets directional signals from a diagonally upward direction, but they could be sent from somewhere near here and bounce off the Heaviside layer so as to strike his antenna from that angle.

The motion that caught his attention was the sudden stiffening of the antennae as he spoke, the two plumelike organs expanding sideways and pointing diagonally forward, as though to bring his head between their tips.

If slanted, the Nautilus, according to this inclination, and under the influence of the screw, either sinks diagonally or rises diagonally as it suits me.

He pulls out his pocket knife, selects the sharpest blade, and makes rough incisions through the plastic, diagonally, X marks the spot.

It slid from its rollers, rammed into the facing timbers and a great crack showed in the stone, running diagonally up its face.

Laid diagonally over the tramlines, the single raised ridges created a criss-cross design that would have been worthy of any modern artist.

Sorbathane, mirrored antilaser face shields locked down on their helmets, canisters of stickyfoam at their belts, Westinghouse power rifles with hundred-round hoppers of gelslugs held diagonally across their chests.

When I started to step up the slope diagonally I sat down in the snow and clipped crampons to my boots.

Typical of his New Atlanta, One Peachtree Center rose diagonally across from the window: arrogant, too big, erected without any consideration for neighbours, its open metalwork spire glinting wasteful and golden in the late morning sun.

Diagonally to her right, across the expanse of the small tables and chairs, many soft, comfortable dark blue sofa seats, of varying lengths and sizes situated themselves next to the balcony.