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Example sentences for "diagonally"

Lexicographically close words:
diagnosticate; diagnosticated; diagnostician; diagnostics; diagonal; diagonals; diagram; diagrammatic; diagrammatically; diagrams
  1. The ordinary method of lacing a leather belt is to make the laces straight on the pulley side, all running in the same direction as the movement of the belt, and crossing them on the outside diagonally in both directions.

  2. Cut the ends diagonally so that they will make a lap joint instead of a square one.

  3. The main dirt road forked here, one fork going diagonally to the right of the track and the other to the left--both in an easterly direction.

  4. We sprang to our feet with alacrity, and were soon in motion, marching by the flank diagonally towards the left, from whence, for some hours, had been proceeding heavy firing.

  5. The battery horses were at once brought up from a ravine in the rear, and the battery limbered up and moved off through the woods diagonally to the left and rear.

  6. Diagonally to my left, perhaps two hundred and fifty yards away, the Confederate line of battle was in plain sight.

  7. After sweeping round the half of a circle, it is carried in a rapid current diagonally across the ordinary direction of its channel, to another curve of similar shape.

  8. Sometimes, however, the laminae in modern strata are disposed diagonally at a considerable angle, which appears to take place where there are conflicting movements in the waters.

  9. The balls are then placed on the four corner spots marked A in diagram, partner balls being diagonally opposite one another, and the starting ball having the choice of either of the upper corners.

  10. Scott determined to cut the corner, that is to miss Corner Camp and cut diagonally across our outward track.

  11. We had a mournful meal, but after the others turned in I went down again, and by striking across diagonally came abreast of the ponies' floe, over a mile away.

  12. Entry (Mauser), 2 inches diagonally below and to the right of the umbilicus; exit, not discoverable.

  13. Aperture of entry (Mauser), 1 inch diagonally below and anterior to left parietal eminence.

  14. The principal lines of this composition run diagonally from corner to corner, intersecting in the centre.

  15. Grouping the heads in a circle, he added wings after the manner of the cherubs of the old Italian masters, surrounded them with clouds, and lighted the composition with a broad ray of light streaming diagonally across the canvas.

  16. There was a house conveniently situated on this side of the river, diagonally across from Herkimer's farm, where Hans Haberkorn, the ferryman, lived.

  17. Its course was obstructed, now by rocks covered with moss a hundred years old, now by an immense tree-trunk which had fallen diagonally across, and whose withered branches stretched down into the brown water.

  18. He hung his rifle over his shoulder, and now walked before them both diagonally through the forest, which was constantly becoming lighter until the tall trees stood singly among the low bushes.

  19. The correct way to carve this roast is to cut diagonally from fig.

  20. One is to slice diagonally across the grain; the other is to broil it whole.

  21. When both have been used finally, they should be laid diagonally across the plate, with both handles toward the right hand; this is understood by well-trained waiters to be the signal for removing them, together with the plate.

  22. For pyramidal pieces, cut the bread into one inch squares and cut diagonally across the cube.

  23. For triangles, cut a slice of bread one half inch thick, then into strips one and a quarter inches wide, then into pieces two or three inches long, then diagonally across.

  24. He led the way diagonally across the hall to a side door and ushered Olcott into what evidently was the chief living room of the house.

  25. You see, the Felsburgs, in their fine home, lived diagonally across the street from the little priest house behind the Catholic church.

  26. After this came the utter wiping out of the borough of Woodvale, on the flat to the northeast of Johnstown and diagonally opposite it.

  27. It cut a clear path for itself from the lower end of the village to the upper end, diagonally opposite, passing through the centre.

  28. At one of the trials a bar of iron 3/4 × 4 inches was spiked down across one of the rails diagonally of the track, .

  29. If not, you can easily make them so with your hands, and tack a couple of strips diagonally across the gunwales to keep the frame in position until the bottom is nailed on.

  30. By applying such a straight-edge across the surface or lengthways or diagonally you can tell whether your work is straight and true (Fig.

  31. Warping or winding of short pieces can be detected by simply laying one straight-edge diagonally from corner to corner (Fig.

  32. Nevertheless, they are parallel, and the lines running diagonally at the bottom of this page are also parallel.

  33. The oblique line referred to as running diagonally across the wing virtually divides the wing into an active and a passive part, the former elevating and propelling, the latter sustaining.

  34. The wing when in action may be divided into two portions by a line running diagonally between the tip of the wing anteriorly and the root of the wing posteriorly.

  35. It is this which causes the wing to twist and untwist diagonally on its long axis when it is made to vibrate.

  36. In two diagonally opposite corners were bastions of round towers, thirty feet high, swelling out so as to command the walls.

  37. It was like days when the rain came out of yellow skies that melted just before twilight and shot one radiant shaft of sunlight diagonally down the heavens into the damp green trees.

  38. Ten minutes later he stopped aimlessly at the corner of Forty-third Street and Madison Avenue, diagonally across from the bright but nearly deserted entrance to the Biltmore Hotel.

  39. But, instead of one street running diagonally from this point there were two or three; and Ralph did not know which one to follow.

  40. Until the oryx started running we would continue to ride diagonally away from them, edging slightly to our right and proceeding at a walking pace.

  41. When he dropped the latter and found the snake close to his face he sprang into the air and fled, bounding sideways and every now and then striking his thigh diagonally with the palm of his right hand.

  42. Snap's helio-room in the network under the dome was diagonally overhead.

  43. It sent me diagonally downward to the window, where I clung and regained stability.

  44. I shot one diagonally up at the turret where Johnson was leering down at our rear window, but he saw my gesture and dropped back out of sight.


  45. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "diagonally" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.