Diagonally Sentence Examples

The province is traversed diagonally from N.E.

In general, the use of a square or rectangular cloth (whether folded diagonally or not) corresponds to the modern keffiyeh woven with long fringes which are plaited into cords knitted at the ends or worked into little balls sewn over with coloured silks and golden From Palestine Exploration Fund threads.

Proceeding south-east, or diagonally across the country, he traversed 840 m.

The Highland railway bisects it diagonally from Dunkeld to the borders of Inverness-shire.

Also take a measurement diagonally across the length that the screen could be.

The Dutsides of the vases were entirely wrought by handwork, with the polishing lines crossing diagonally.

He carried on across the road, hit the bike broadside, sending it sliding diagonally across toward us.

Lying Diagonally and taking over the whole bed could be a territorial issue, trying to exert dominance over your partner!

Cross the stile and bear diagonally left across the field - keeping to the right of the excavated medieval dovecote.

This is the dominant central feature of the Wonder Pod, and consists of diagonally opposite plantings of green and bronze fennel.

Many cottages and barns still have a reed matting which was woven diagonally and laid over the rafters and under the thatch.

The basic layout is a mirror-image L, with a seperate barn in the diagonally opposite corner.

Climb diagonally right to gain the nose of the overhanging prow.

If your purse has a long shoulder strap, drape it over your head so that the strap crosses your body diagonally.

The diagonally striped sleeves are decorated with matching bands and her cuffs are hemmed with needlepoint lace.

For picture-tube sets, wide screens usually measure 26- 34 inches diagonally.

The cathode ray tubes required the television to be as wide as it was long diagonally, which created televisions that were very bulky.

Screen sizes for plasma televisions typically range from 37" to 65", however, they are available up to the size 150" diagonally.

Square tiles can be laid straight, diagonally or both.

To find the end of your brow, extend the brush diagonally from your nostril, following the outside edge of your eye toward the brow.

You can place them diagonally or overlapping one another instead of the basic block placement that picture albums dictate.

It can be installed horizontally, vertically, or diagonally, and is available in all grades.

For the right component of the inside joint, place the crown diagonally on the right side of the saw.

Head back inside the house, shim the sides of the window evenly and check the window diagonally from corner to corner to make sure the window is square and not twisted.

Some of the more popular fabrics used to construct dress shirts include oxford, which is crisp and therefore excellent for formal events, and twill, a diagonally woven material that creates a thick, rich texture.

Several veils can be tucked into the front of your belt, draped diagonally over your stomach and shoulder, and then tucked securely into the back of your belt.

Allow the tape measure to dangle diagonally across the torso, under the crotch, and back to the shoulder.

You can only move the piece one space forward diagonally.

To take your opponents pieces, jump over his piece diagonally and land in an empty square.

Slice the duck breasts diagonally and arrange on a plate.

The best bed placement is on a solid wall diagonally across from the entrance - This placement allows you to see anyone entering the bedroom.

Fold it in half diagonally and crease, then unfold.

With the paper unfolded, fold it again, but this time diagonally.

Looking at the white side of the paper, you should see creases running vertically, horizontally and diagonally.

Start with a square sheet of paper and fold it in half diagonally.

Two pink lines run slightly and suggestively diagonally across the breast, while an equally cheeky pink line rims the very top of the bikini bottom.

A diagonally striped design also results in a curvier look.

It is a one-shoulder suit with a tie strap and a beige stripe that goes diagonally across the torso, adding a slimming effect that Serena Williams does not need but that still looks great.

Roll the scarf - Starting with one corner, roll the scarf diagonally until you reach the other corner.

Fold the scarf diagonally - You should end up with a triangle shape.

Note that asymmetric hems don't necessarily have to slant diagonally.

The rook, or castle, can move straightforward or sideways but not diagonally.

The rooks move vertically and horizontally and the bishops move diagonally.

The Queen combines the powers of the rook and bishop, moving either diagonally, horizontally, or vertically.

The dark colors move first and pieces travel one square diagonally left or right.

Checkers - A two-player strategy game in which players move their game pieces diagonally across the board, capturing their opponent's game pieces along the way.

A sequence is formed when five chips of the same color are consecutive in a row, column or diagonally.

The direction of the row can be up, down, across or diagonally across the game board.

They move in a similar manner, except that instead of moving horizontally and vertically they can only move diagonally.

They can move horizontally, vertically or diagonally, for as many spaces as the board allows.

All pieces capture by moving as outlined above except for pawns, which move one space diagonally for capture moves only.

Bishop-The bishop moves any number of squares diagonally, provided no piece blocksits path.

A player can only move his game pieces diagonally in a forward direction.

For example, take two sheets of beeswax, each a different color, and cut them in half diagonally.

Cutting a square of wax in half diagonally and rolling this starting at the widest point will give a tiered effect when the candle is finished.

Messengers feature a single strap extending from the shoulder diagonally across the body, whereas backpack styles will employ double straps.

The electronics industry defines a big screen television as any model that exceeds 32 inches when measured diagonally.

You can choose to cut on the bias (diagonally) or straight on the grain.

Fold the paper in half diagonally so you have a triangle shape facing you.

However, there's another set of important midsection muscles called obliques, which run diagonally from your ribcage to your hips in two layers, essentially criss-crossing one another to allow for a twisting motion.

The internal and external obliques run diagonally across the abdomen, enabling your body to twist from side to side.

If you want to work the internal and external oblique muscles that run diagonally across your torso, you need to focus on twisting exercises that engage this portion of your abdominals.

Many have a seam that goes diagonally across the nipple.

Before they could answer, she turned on her heels and stumbled back to her quarters, diagonally across the hall.

The south-western angle of the continent, bounded by a line drawn diagonally from Jurien river to Cape Riche, has an average of from 30 to 40 in.

A line drawn diagonally down the centre from the isthmus of Kra to Cape Romania (Ramunya) gives the extreme length at about 750 miles.

Railway transportation is supplied to Vermont by parallel lines crossing diagonally every part of the state at about equal intervals and running in general in a N.W.

The design of the former is a trellis crossing the ceiling diagonally; in each of the lacunae is carved a cherubim with eight wings; the figures and the trellis are gilded; the ground is a rich ultramarine.

Twinned crystals are not common, but the presence of polysynthetic twinning is sometimes shown by fine striations running diagonally or obliquely across the cleavage surfaces.

The eyes are arranged in rows running diagonally from the median anterior beak.

A broken lump would then be heated to softness in the furnace; rolled out under a bar of metal, held diagonally across the roll; and when reduced to a rod of a quarter of an inch thick, it was heated and pulled out into even rods about an eighth of an inch thick.

South of this northern highland several parallel ridges run diagonally across the province in a N.W.

It is this which causes the wing to twist and untwist diagonally on its long axis when it is made to vibrate.

The twisting is most marked at the tip and posterior margin, particularly that half of the posterior margin next the tip. The wing when in action may be divided into two portions by a line running diagonally between the tip of the wing anteriorly and the root of the wing posteriorly.

Thus the permeable vein grows vertically rather than horizontally, and ultimately assumes the form of a thin vertical sheet traversing the puddle wall, often diagonally in plan, and having a thickness which has varied in different cases from a few inches to a couple of feet or more, of almost clean sand rising to an observed height of 30 or 40 ft., and only arrested in its upward growth by the necessary lowering of the reservoir water to avoid serious danger.

It is a cruciform structure of transitional Norman and later dates, its central tower having the upper storey set diagonally upon the lower.

This is because CRT screen size is measured diagonally corner-to-corner, reducing the actually screen viewing area by about 1.5 inches.

The Coefficients In The Expansion Of (A A) N For Any Particular Value Of N Are Obtained By Reading Diagonally Upwards From Left To Right From The (N 1)Th Number In The First Column.

No sooner is the object of alarm scented or seen than each one seeks safety in the most inaccessible situations, which are often reached by a series of astounding leaps over crevasses, up the faces of seemingly perpendicular rocks, or down the sides of equally precipitous chasms. The chamois will not hesitate, it is said, thus to leap down 20 or even 30 ft., and this it effects with apparent ease by throwing itself forward diagonally and striking its feet several times in its descent against the face of the rock.

The oblique line referred to as running diagonally across the wing virtually divides the wing into an active and a passive part, the former elevating and propelling, the latter sustaining.

The primitive formations of the range, of which little beyond the French portions had previously been studied, are shown to be almost all continued diagonally on the Spanish side, and the central ridge thus presents the appearance of a series of wrinkles with an inclination.

Diagonally opposite the mosque is a house with a square tower, which is locally believed to occupy the place of the famous ancient school.