Example sentences for: slant

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

  • Search for articles of a particular ideological slant or cultural preference (such as a prejudice against Norwegian movies);

  • In the 20th century, Hollywood added its own slant to the legends, and every school child learns about the gods of the ancient Greek world — of Zeus, Athena, and Apollo.

  • The interest was passed on, and Horwitz's father, a physician, kept his son up late at night reading from the 10-volume Photographic History of the Civil War . By third grade, Horwitz fils was completing his own "highly derivative" history of the war and commencing a Sistine-scale project: a mural of the war, pro-Rebel in slant, that would soon cover every inch of attic wall space.

  • Any sustained effort--conscious or unconscious--by a media conglomerate to slant the news in favor of its holdings will only damage the long-term value of its journalistic properties.

  • 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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