Example sentences for: obliquely

How can you use “obliquely” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Slither obliquely across, scaring the horses.

  • Being loyal Republicans, Lamar's contributors talk about such happenings only obliquely.

  • To improve anchorage, screws were introduced obliquely into the vertebral bodies close to the endplates away from the disc space.

  • Birn also shows how Goldhagen's insistence on German complicity leads him to soft-pedal the anti-Semitism of the Germans' collaborators, referring obliquely to the "pressures operating on the Ukrainians that did not exist for the Germans."

  • If The Tin Drum has a negative take on Nazism, it is expressed obliquely, through explosive bursts of irreverent language, and by dint of the fact that, in 1959, Grass talks about things such as Kristallnacht --something few other German writers did at the time, at least not so boldly.


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