Example sentences for: slant

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

  • Thus, the organization of facts around the jump can often reveal a paper's slant on a story.

  • The paper found that Murdoch had personally intervened to get the book stopped, because he feared that its anti-Chinese slant might threaten his TV interests in China.

  • Some discern a feminist slant to the film's "ballsy depiction of man's inhumanity to woman, and man" (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly ). The New York Times ' Janet Maslin praises its "critical detachment" and "coolly stylized exaggeration," which make it "impossible to mistake In the Company of Men for simple bigotry."

  • It is a well-established fact that people will tend to slant their views and responses to questions so as to better agree with what they perceive to be the majority opinion.

  • The people on whose behalf David Gates is pleading--Quentin Tarantino, Lorrie Moore, Beck--would not be happy to know that their particular slant on life expresses the universal human condition.


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