slant
/ˈslænt/ verb C2- To lean, tilt or incline. · If you slant the track a little more, the marble will roll down it faster.
- To bias or skew. · a magazine slanted toward the youth market· The group tends to slant its policies in favor of the big businesses it serves.
He/she/it slants · Past slanted · Past participle slanted · -ing form slanting
Verb forms
- Base form
- slant
- He/she/it
- slants
- Past
- slanted
- Past participle
- slanted
- -ing form
- slanting
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It was twilight of a lovely spring evening, and even Little Ryder Street, one of the smaller offshoots from the Edgware Road, within a stone-cast of old Tyburn Tree of evil memory, looked golden and wonderful in the slanting rays of the setting sun.
We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands.
The afternoon light slanted through the dusty windowpane, casting long, geometric shadows across the cluttered expanse of Eleanor’s antique mahogany desk.
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