SIDEWAYS in a Sentence

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The name threw a chill between them, and they stood a moment looking sideways at each other before Mattie said with a shy laugh.

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 Meanings and Examples of SIDEWAYS
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
sideways
 ad.  with the side forward; to or from a side
Classic Sentence: (50 in 4 pages)
1  Daisy's face, tipped sideways beneath a three-cornered lavender hat, looked out at me with a bright ecstatic smile.
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 5
2  I am instructed to communicate to him," said Mr. Jaggers, throwing his finger at me sideways, "that he will come into a handsome property.
Great Expectations By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In Chapter XVIII
3  He makes dreadful mouths as he rules the ciphering-book; and now he throws his eye sideways down our lane, and we all droop over our books and tremble.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 7. MY 'FIRST HALF' AT SALEM HOUSE
4  'Nothing come of it,' he explained, looking at me sideways.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 8. MY HOLIDAYS. ESPECIALLY ONE HAPPY AFTERNOON
5  Leaning out of the window, and seeing one of the faces on the beam-ends looking at me sideways, I fancied it was Uriah Heep got up there somehow, and shut him out in a hurry.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 15. I MAKE ANOTHER BEGINNING
6  He certainly did look uncommonly like the carved face on the beam outside my window, as he sat, in his humility, eyeing me sideways, with his mouth widened, and the creases in his cheeks.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 16. I AM A NEW BOY IN MORE SENSES THAN ONE
7  Dora had helped him up on the sofa; where he really was defying my aunt to such a furious extent, that he couldn't keep straight, but barked himself sideways.
David Copperfield By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 48. DOMESTIC
8  Her eye, full of fire, glanced sideways at Vronsky.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 24
9  Twenty years before, when Dolly was a child, the lodge had been roomy and comfortable, though, like all lodges, it stood sideways to the entrance avenue, and faced the south.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 7
10  At the table, sitting sideways in a low chair, was Vronsky, his face hidden in his hands, weeping.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 4: Chapter 17
11  The priest lighted two candles, wreathed with flowers, and holding them sideways so that the wax dropped slowly from them he turned, facing the bridal pair.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 4
12  The head lay sideways on the pillow.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 17
13  "Yes, it was very nice indeed, papa," said Seryozha, sitting sideways on his chair and rocking it, which was forbidden.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 5: Chapter 27
14  Kitty looked sideways in the same direction, never taking her eyes off the baby.
Anna Karenina 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 7: Chapter 16
15  The name threw a chill between them, and they stood a moment looking sideways at each other before Mattie said with a shy laugh.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
Example Sentence:
1  The truck skidded sideways across the road.
2  We turned the table sideways to get it into the room.
3  He looked sideways at me in the meeting.
4  The car slipped sideways into the ditch.
5  When the drill bit reaches about a mile and a half in depth, nearly six times the height of the Empire State Building, it will munch its way sideways for another two miles.