Sentence examples for downward slant from inspiring English sources

In most cases, this trajectory will be on a firmly downward slant.

The floor has a startling downward slant caused when its pilings sank during the 1906 earthquake.

His features have a stark, downward slant, angling from his forehead to his pinched-bridge nose to his recessed, dimpled chin.

The "Happy Holiday Hearth," from Rhino Home Video, bucks convention with thin logs piled in a triangle, like a teepee, backed by bricks laid at a downward slant.

Note the way space is frequently organized and compressed on a downward slant from the right — abruptly reversed in a "Resurrection" that propels Christ skyward with the visual correlative of a startled shout.

He said the 100-foot stretch of the Merritt by his house where the students were killed is extremely dangerous because of its curving, downward slant and the absence of breakdown lanes or reflectors.

The downward slanting ground irresistibly calls to mind the perspective effects that Gustave Caillebotte would start contriving around 1879.

Sitting like a grass-tree in the scrub beside Kylies trail on the downward slanting spine of the headland, I peered over the lake, regarding Middle Brother and North Brother and the tablelands in the ranges beyond.

An upward or downward slanting triangle (rising wedge, falling wedge).

Smear more blood downward and slanted off toward the side of your face, stopping at the base of your neck.

The headstanders (Anostomidae) move with the head pointing downward at a slant; some of the pencil fishes (Hemiodontidae) assume a tail-standing position.