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3 total sentences available.
We had left the fertile country behind and beneath us. We looked back on it now, the slanting rays of a low sun turning the streams to threads of gold and glowing on the red earth new turned by the plough and the broad tangle of the woodlands.
Source: tatoeba (6606611)
Then bid my comrades quit the port and shore, / and man the benches. They with rival strain / and slanting oar-blades sweep the levels of the main.
Source: tatoeba (7035713)
The slanting of the hill was too steep for safe skiing.
Source: wiktionary
Closest matches include abstractionism, aslant, aslant, aslope, aslope.
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