as in transversely
in a line or direction running from corner to corner placed two strips of pimiento diagonally on each deviled egg

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Recent Examples of diagonally Slightly bigger, at 7.4 inches measured diagonally (compared with the 7-inch Steam Deck display), the new system swaps the IPS panel for an OLED one. PC Magazine, 11 June 2025 Arbuckle watched as the group marched diagonally across an intersection on Main Street. Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 28 May 2025 Following complaints about drivers parking diagonally at a curb beside Torrey Pines Road in La Jolla, the city of San Diego bumped up its schedule to paint the section of curb red to keep people from parking there. Ashley MacKin Solomon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Apr. 2025 If your home is very wide and has only a few inlets, open windows located diagonally to each other have the longest possible straight path for air flow, thereby increasing the potential of air circulation across the whole room. Aksha Mittapalli, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for diagonally
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  • Marchand dipped to the left, moved the puck to his forehand and fired back across.
    Jordan McPherson, Miami Herald, 15 June 2025
  • The commercial succinctly and humorously gets the point across.
    Pamela N. Danziger, Forbes.com, 13 June 2025
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  • Make another layer with another 1/4 of the eggplant slices, this time arranging them crosswise to the first layer.
    Carolyn Casner, Chicago Tribune, 13 Aug. 2022
  • Serve: Carve the chicken breasts off the bone, slice them crosswise, and serve with the salad.
    Beth Segal, cleveland, 23 Sep. 2021

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“Diagonally.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/diagonally. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.

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