Example sentences for: obliquely

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

  • 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.

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

  • 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.

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

  • This detective obliquely threatened the life of Gennifer Flowers.


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