slanted; slanting; slants
1
: to take a diagonal course, direction, or path
2
: to turn or incline from a right line or a level : slope
1
: to give an oblique or sloping direction to
2
: to interpret or present in line with a special interest : angle
stories slanted toward youth
especially
: to maliciously or dishonestly distort or falsify
2
a
: something that slants
b
c
: a football running play in which the ballcarrier runs obliquely toward the line of scrimmage
3
a
: a peculiar or personal point of view, attitude, or opinion
b
: a slanting view : glance
slant
adjective
Examples of slant in a Sentence
Verb
The sunlight slanted down through the leaves and branches of the trees.
She slanted her hat a little to the right.
They deliberately slanted the story to make themselves look good.
Noun
The computer keyboard is positioned at a slant so that typing is more comfortable for the wrists.
He sliced the carrots on a slant.
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Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
Unlike in dictatorships, this tends to involve not overt methods like book burning but quieter techniques such as co-opting media company shareholders to slant their coverage or using limited censorship supposedly designed to fight extremism or child pornography.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025
Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025
That wariness led me to reflect on the pro-immigration slant in so much of elite culture.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
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Verb
The winter sunbeams slanted in their gentle way, as if coaxing color from the land, and all the brown and grey plants looked gilded in the morning light.
—Kate Siber, Outside Online, 3 Mar. 2025
Unlike in dictatorships, this tends to involve not overt methods like book burning but quieter techniques such as co-opting media company shareholders to slant their coverage or using limited censorship supposedly designed to fight extremism or child pornography.
—Livia Gershon, JSTOR Daily, 2 Apr. 2025
Noun
The cold air smelled of ash and dirt, and the mountains beyond stood hard in slants of sunlight.
—Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 9 Mar. 2025
That wariness led me to reflect on the pro-immigration slant in so much of elite culture.
—Robert Petkoff Krish Seenivasan Quinton Kamara, New York Times, 24 Feb. 2025
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“Slant.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/slant. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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slant
noun
: a culture medium solidified obliquely in a tube so as to increase the surface area
a blood-agar slant
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