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Sentence Examples A bottle of chemical fertilizer had been knocked askew, spilling the liquid in a pool on the concrete floor. No starched apron-bib is sullied, no long straight gilet is crumpled, no cuff or kirtle torn or buttonless, no bold tricorne hat askew. Yet here she was, in lemon chiffon, one cap sleeve hanging askew off a farmers-tanned arm and her dyed pumps in hand. Your censer empty by your side has lost its scent and lies askew for other worshippers to fill again. Observe the diatom frustule below at right, in which the two halves have been pushed slightly askew. At the door two glassy-eyed guards slowly tilt their heads slightly askew in opposite directions, and then towards each other. A single flaw in the process could send the entire denotation of the page askew. Perhaps that was what jaunted my serenity askew after the meal had ended, people going off to do their own things and whatnot. The whitewash walls were in good repair but the roof was mossy and many of the tiles were cracked or askew. He hit the floor with a sickening crunch, wings askew and limbs bent into impossibly painful angles. The images, presented at different scales on off-white paper, are slightly askew so as not to become confrontational. His cap was worn slightly askew, and his hair was cut extremely short in an unusual geometric pattern around his ears. The main house was a simple geometric, built with angles slightly askew and curved eaves that broke the harsh lines in a calculated manner. Seated next to me was a darling old woman who smelled of mothballs and whose red lipstick was slightly askew. His legs were askew as he spun, twirled, and twisted, a strange dance of confusion. His material is shorn of all excess baggage and his ability to lock on a small aspect of everybody's lives and turn it askew is priceless. If the layers are arranged in neat, parallel rows, instead of being slightly askew, then a volcanic process is more likely, he says. The odd crooked stitch or slightly askew angel wing just shows that it is homemade and adds to the charm. In addition, the linear elements sometimes run slightly askew as they move from panel to panel. His thick eyeglasses were slightly askew, but otherwise he was impeccable, dressed as always in brightly colored slacks and a plaid jacket. Show More Sentences He very rarely acts on impulse, but ever since Evelyn died, his emotions have been askew. Marin's glasses were slightly askew as he marked something in red pen on the paper in front of him. Some citizens took the not unreasonable view that something had gone a bit askew if only naughty people were carrying arms. This is a decent article I think, but I also think this guy's view is slightly askew. The posts would be different sizes of papers laid out, slightly askew, all over the table. A few of the facts are slightly askew but the enthusiasm of the article is interesting. There are the waiters, many of whom are Luger transplants, who rush through the crowd wearing long aprons and slightly askew snap-on bow ties. My bangs were slightly askew, and I played around with them for a few moments before walking in. She appears three minutes later, her red hair all wild and frizzy, and her glasses askew. She was still dressed in the over-sized t-shirt she considered sleepwear, hair askew and herbal tea cuddled in her hand. That Byron himself had been raised a Scotsman and a Calvinist placed him from birth slightly askew from the ruling British elite. Her frizzy red hair is all over the place and her glasses are askew. The movie trailed off irresolutely, perhaps cast askew by Phoenix's fervent incoherence. If the rubber belt runs askew over the front roller for a long period it can be ruined. He was a sickly grey color, his glasses were slightly askew, his hair was limp as if he hadn't even bothered with it that morning, and his coat and pants were rumpled. Objects that would normally hug the wall were positioned askew. When he brings the car to a halt we find ourselves outside a dilapidated, three-storeyed structure bearing a hotel sign, the last letter of which is slightly askew. And Peter, tie askew and eyes asquint, still looks as right in the role as the cigar that he occasionally lights but rarely puffs looks between his teeth. What worries me is that if we misunderstand the virtuous cycle and kick it askew even a little bit, we could make a costly mistake. That tells me that something is askew in terms of the marketing and perhaps the goal of some of the people in that industry. Show More Sentences The left side was dominated by a towel hung distractingly askew. Brent turned to me, rolling his eyes, his tri-corner hat slightly askew. Are the plates for light switches and outlets square or slightly askew? My eyes stuck on the bow tie, because it was slightly askew. The film is sometimes undeniably clever and its vision of the world is suitably askew, but often the tone wobbles unevenly between straight drama and morbid comedy. Don't punish the press just because the publishers' plans have gone askew. The world is at a slant in these paintings, askew, all slope. The centre of the ring, which is 12 billion miles wide, is offset slightly from the star, suggesting that gravity of unseen planets is dragging it askew. These are the extreme – but by no means rare – examples, the ones the tabloids love to photograph for a slow weekend's front page, ideally showing a miniskirted young woman slumped across the pavement, legs askew. I'm smiling, my tie is askew, and I'm sporting a boofy big hairdo, like all the other kids in my class. Nothing had washed overboard, the mainmast and foremast and riggings had held up, two of the boat's ten solar panels were askew but remained intact. The sponsorship scandal, the gun registry and the other mismanaged government programs should not exist and should not have been allowed to continue once they were known to have gone askew. I lay on the floor, writhing, unlamented and unnoticed, kilt in a birl, sporran askew. He did about as well as could be expected with the Jints, though the halo he gained lastseason was knocked slightly askew in the process. Macedonia's economy has already been knocked askew by the Kosovo war. And his military and naval uniforms were never exactly right — a brass button might be missing, an epaulet might be askew, there might be too many gold stripes on one sleeve and too few on the other. Marlene's lip curls superciliously at passé role models who kowtowed to patriarchal bullying, but isn't that Seventies feminism already going askew? But the dramatic increase suggests something has gone seriously askew. Badger was leaner and seedier, and his Aertex shirt was sweatier and pulled askew by being used to mop his face. Examples from Classical Literature He is said to have imbibed his passion for collecting books from Dr. askew. At length, most unwillingly, Captain askew told the men that he should return into the Tower. Osborne resold this inimitable windfall to Dr askew for sixty guineas. His mouth was agape with distress, his loud-checked bowtie askew. They hung all askew, helplessly pinned, some broadside, some upended. Its old logs, disjoined and askew, were all but on the ground. Captain askew could scarcely understand the account he heard. His harness was askew across his back and the singletree hitch still dragged behind where it had snapped from the cultivator at the gate opening. Little John eyed them askew, but made no offer to question them. Then her hat got askew, and down came a long braid over his shoulder. The houses finally leap the wall of Philip Augustus, and scatter joyfully over the plain, without order, and all askew, like runaways. But Marilla could not rid herself of the notion that something in her scheme of punishment was going askew. The mantel's chastely severe outline was ingloriously veiled behind some pert drapery drawn rakishly askew like the sashes of the Amazonian ballet. He looked me squarely in the eyes, and twisted his mouth askew. You will notice that it looks singularly askew, and that there is an odd twinkling appearance about this bar, as though it was in some way unreal. Find more words! 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