Examples of diagonally in a Sentence
placed two strips of pimiento diagonally on each deviled egg
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Arbuckle watched as the group marched diagonally across an intersection on Main Street.
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Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025
Following complaints about drivers parking diagonally at a curb beside Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla, the city of San Diego bumped up its schedule to paint the section of curb red to keep people from parking there.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
If your home is very wide and has only a few inlets, open windows located diagonally to each other have the longest possible straight path for air flow, thereby increasing the potential of air circulation across the whole room.
—Aksha Mittapalli, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2025
Yamal has now scored pretty much the same goal in three consecutive games — the 17-year-old dribbles diagonally through the opposing defence, positions himself in front of the target and fires a shot into the top corner.
—Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025
Following complaints about drivers parking diagonally at a curb beside Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla, the city of San Diego bumped up its schedule to paint the section of curb red to keep people from parking there.
—Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025
If your home is very wide and has only a few inlets, open windows located diagonally to each other have the longest possible straight path for air flow, thereby increasing the potential of air circulation across the whole room.
—Aksha Mittapalli, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2025
Yamal has now scored pretty much the same goal in three consecutive games — the 17-year-old dribbles diagonally through the opposing defence, positions himself in front of the target and fires a shot into the top corner.
—Laia Cervelló Herrero, New York Times, 19 May 2025
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“Diagonally.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/diagonally. Accessed 5 Jun. 2025.
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