DIAGONAL in a Sentence

Learn DIAGONAL from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For DIAGONAL, below is one of 6 sentences:
Beneath his brow was one hollow socket from which a scar ran down his cheek, carving a diagonal line through his beard.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIAGONAL
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
diagonal
 a.  straight line connecting any two vertices of a polygon that are not adjacent
Classic Sentence:
1  Beneath his brow was one hollow socket from which a scar ran down his cheek, carving a diagonal line through his beard.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XLII
2  An instant more, and all four boats were diagonically in the whale's immediate wake, while stretching from them, on both sides, was the foaming swell that he made.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
3  I was just walking diagonally across a big field.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In VII
Example Sentence:
1  You can draw a diagonal line across the page.
2  The book has a diagonal black stripe on the cover.
3  She lives diagonally across the street from us.