Sentence examples for sidewise from inspiring English sources

Whether sidewise to independent regulators or upwards to Europe, power seems to be ebbing away from them, for the time being anyway.

Sniff, a very popular domino game in the United States, is essentially muggins, but the first double played is called sniff and may be put down endwise or sidewise (à cheval), at the holder's option.

Thereafter, one may play to this piece both endwise and sidewise.

Murray Leinster's Sidewise in Time (1934) expanded the possibilities by suggesting a vast multiplicity of "histories," all occurring at the same "time".

Some bits have noncutting pilot pins that extend below the cutting edges and control the sidewise depth of the cut when the router is working on the side of a board.

Magnus effect, generation of a sidewise force on a spinning cylindrical or spherical solid immersed in a fluid (liquid or gas) when there is relative motion between the spinning body and the fluid.

The composition of the reinforcement and the angle of its application to the axis of the tread affect the ability of the tire to respond to sidewise forces created during cornering.

The press seats had been so closely juxtaposed that I could fit in only sidewise between two colleagues — the extra compression having been caused by the injection of a prewar number of movie stars and politicos.

The usual thing is to park them sidewise, between two parked cars in a metered area.

At Gregory's school, after the boys swim naked, they look "at one another, though without looking, sidewise, like in the mirror at the barber's".

We talked a little, I think, yet soon the rumble and creak of our car, the pleasing slither of wheels, and the sidewise-moving dark silhouettes of trees silenced us, yet no one got up and headed off to bed.