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Examples of oblique angle in a Sentence
The dancer held his leg at an oblique angle to his body.
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And so, offers of help often come at oblique angles.
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Jed Brewer, Rolling Stone, 9 Jan. 2025
Characters are shot from the back, or in oblique angles that obscure their faces, and typical reaction shots are few and far between.
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Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 22 Nov. 2024
The novelist comes at this group from an oblique angle.
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Stuart Miller, Orange County Register, 11 Sep. 2024
Take the newest Apple Watch, which can be viewed from oblique angles, with an always-on screen that accommodates a ticking seconds hand even when your hand is down.
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Ian Bogost, The Atlantic, 9 Sep. 2024
Long takes and oblique angles lend the solitudes in Schoenbrun’s world a pensive solidity that belies the cold, often flickery glow of the screens in which the characters immure themselves.
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Richard Brody, The New Yorker, 3 May 2024
Nano-prisms view well at an angle Samsung's new nano-prism image has a sensitivity to light sources at more oblique angles compared to some conventional pixel tech today.
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IEEE Spectrum, 13 Dec. 2023
For all its abstract shapes and oblique angles, Aromáticas is playful and curious.
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Pitchfork, 7 Dec. 2023
In the ’50s and ’60s, the primal appeal of fluid spaces inspired the French architect Claude Parent to sing the wonders of oblique angles and inclined planes.
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Justin Davidson, Curbed, 22 Feb. 2023
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Word History
First Known Use
1647, in the meaning defined above
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“Oblique angle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/oblique%20angle. Accessed 11 Feb. 2025.
Kids Definition
oblique angle
noun
: an acute or obtuse angle
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