What is "slantways"

Usage examples of "slantways".

Wait: here comes her hand, idling slantways down her rump, ten bucks of manicure on each fingertip.

He had green eyes and tatty ears, he had a slantways scar on his nose, he had a white bib on his chest, and a tail that was barred in lighter and darker shades.

And the other one--the huge stranger--was grinning slantways at her like a cat contemplating a mouse.

His staff was slantways before him, not so much a threat as a barrier between him and the silent Giglia.

I got through the morning, the Wreck took me home, I fell asleep several steps from the top of the stairs but my feet carried me the rest of the way into my bedroom and I woke up at three, lying slantways across my unmade bed, my feet hanging over one end, my cheek painfully creased and my bruised jaw made sorer by a wad of bedspread.

Elphame looked slantways at her brother and tried to increase her gait without being too obvious.

On the other side of the entrance doors the rain drove down slantways, half-blinding her vision of homeward-bound pedestrians and the traffic of the street beyond them.

At this high latitude, instead of dropping straight down out of sight, it slithered slantways along the horizon.

The curtain inside was bunched a little towards the centre and by squinting slantways they were able to see into the room beyond.

She looked slantways at the paper and the lines of block capitals, painstakingly executed by Inspector Fox.

The three-quarter moon shone through the trees slantways as it rose, as if a giant lantern had been lit somewhere in the woods.

They had pulled up slantways on the four-lane street, blocking one whole line of traffic that had thickened to safe-area proportions.

At this high latitude, instead of dropping straight down out of sight, it slithered slantways along the horizon.

Kenny Bayst, according to my slantways look at Nancy's racecard, was riding a horse called Rudiments: number seven, owned by the Duke of Wessex, trained by Miss.