Example sentences for: obliquely

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

  • Using one of the former's most powerful ploys, it chooses to come at the viewer obliquely via a human face, a human tragedy, that carefully fronts the industry behind.

  • 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."

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

  • The accuser phrases the dog-wagging charge obliquely so that he can deny having made it.

  • A cry has gone up for President Clinton to comment less obliquely on Juanita Broaddrick's rape charges.


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