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How to pronounce slanting in English?

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Synonyms aslant, aslope, diagonal, slanted, sloped, sloping

Examples of slanting

slanting
Steady the wing with your guide hand and make a slanting cut to remove the wing.
From the orlandosentinel.com
On the far side of a pond it sprawled, yellow coat on fire in the slanting sun.
From the telegraph.co.uk
A cheaper alternative is walking, hewing to a slanting strip of drainage ditch.
From the post-gazette.com
And indeed, he does seem to be slanting that way, at least in terms of producers.
From the cnn.com
The nest is a slanting hole dug in soft soil and lined with vegetation and fur.
From the en.wikipedia.org
It streaks the sky to the west with slanting grey lines that seem to taunt me.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Head left, and go under the slanting bridge and then head to the cove on the right.
From the charlotteobserver.com
He said the men apparently hit their heads on the barge's slanting underside.
From the omaha.com
On third-and-3 at the 6, he flicked a quick pass to Graham slanting over the middle.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Aslant: having an oblique or slanted direction
  • (slantingly) with a slant
  • Slanted writing is the type of writing that springs from our conscious or subconscious choice of words and images. In particular we refer to slanting writing whenever we load our description of a specific situation with vivid, connotative words and figures of speech. ...
  • A pronounced lean to one side and then turning upwards. Branches as before.
  • A biased way of looking at or presenting something
  • Lie obliquely; "A scar slanted across his face"
  • Pitch: degree of deviation from a horizontal plane; "the roof had a steep pitch"
  • Present with a bias; "He biased his presentation so as to please the share holders"
  • Lean: to incline or bend from a vertical position; "She leaned over the banister"