How to Use on a diagonal in a Sentence
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Long boards installed on a diagonal from the room's walls.
— Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 3 Mar. 2021 -
The station, well placed on a diagonal, has a nice presence along the St. Paul and Charles streets corridors.
— Jacques Kelly, baltimoresun.com, 14 Aug. 2021 -
An order of toast ($6) comes with one fat, cottony slice, cut on a diagonal bias.
— Soleil Ho, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 May 2021 -
The hack works like this: Instead of placing your box with its edges parallel to the edges of the wrapping paper, put it on a diagonal in the middle of the piece of wrapping paper.
— Kelsey Hurwitz, Woman's Day, 17 Dec. 2019 -
Going the other way on a diagonal, make very shallow lines.
— Sheryl Julian, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Dec. 2022 -
Inside, checkerboard tiles set on a diagonal line the central hall, which accesses the main living areas and a set of stairs.
— Lauren Beale, Forbes, 9 Oct. 2022 -
Walking on a diagonal line across the site, the biologists collect at least five samples of soil in plastic bags.
— Jeff Wheelwright, Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2017 -
Cut crosswise on a diagonal into ½-inch-thick slices (broccoli should be cut into florets; pin onion slices with toothpicks to keep them from falling apart).
— Steven Raichlen New York Times, Star Tribune, 21 July 2021 -
This pattern is like herringbone, but instead of interlocking, boards are cut on a diagonal so their ends align.
— Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 3 Mar. 2021 -
Gentileschi posed her protagonist on a diagonal, the curve of her arms and shoulders and her angled head a pair of spiraling oval shapes tipped back in space, destabilizing the figure.
— Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2022 -
Those cylinders are cut into chubby pieces, sliced thinly on a diagonal, or twisted into a cocoon shape that looks like two little balls stuck together.
— Kendra Vaculin, Bon Appétit, 10 Jan. 2022 -
While some of the dresses were worn horizontally or on a diagonal, revealing corset undergarments in neutral tones, one model walked with a fully upside-down dress, the hemline obscuring her face and her legs emerging from the sweetheart neckline.
— Jacqui Palumbo, CNN, 25 Jan. 2023
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