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Diagonal in sentence

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That diagonal line is the truth line.
Timidly, we've been higher on the diagonal in other situations, but it's okay.
I just politely raised my hand, and when Ms. Russell acknowledged me, I said, in front of my year two classmates, and I quote, "But Miss, surely if the diagonal of the square is less than the diameter of the circle, well, the square peg will pass quite easily through the round hole."
Well, you have to remember that TV was designed to be looked at eight times the distance of the diagonal.
But the numbers in the next diagonal are called the triangular numbers because if you take that many dots, you can stack them into equilateral triangles.
The next diagonal has the tetrahedral numbers because similarly, you can stack that many spheres into tetrahedra.
Another way of thinking about it is this: since the light travels at a 45 degree angle, it always crosses the diagonal of a unit square.
Now the display on your laptop costs, in rough numbers, 10 dollars a diagonal inch.
So, OK, maybe it had to do with the patterns on the pieces of paper, like it was a diamond, or diagonal.
Because we're using escalators to move people, all of these trusses are picking up diagonal loads.
And if you go on the diagonal, you get content and form, and then beauty and truth.
It's not folded, that's a photograph and it's cut on the diagonal.
Since light takes a year to travel one light-year, its path will be a 45-degree diagonal line.
In 1992, the team drilled diagonal tunnels to remove 38 cubic meters of soil from under the tower’s north end.
Runes are short, straight, and diagonal lines that make up an alphabet called the “futhark.”
Through diagonal moves.
They are accessed through this diagonal elevator.
It's actually a stand-up product from Switzerland, because in Switzerland they have a natural need for diagonal elevators.
African countries have also made progress on horizontal accountability, involving government checks and balances, as well as what might be called diagonal accountability, or the effect of personal responsibility on institutions.
If they slant, the Nautilus follows the angle of that slant and, under its propeller's thrust, either sinks on a diagonal as steep as it suits me, or rises on that diagonal.
However, from lord-knows-what whim, one day it did a diagonal dive by means of its slanting fins, reaching strata located 2,000 meters underwater.
Captain Nemo decided to make for the ocean floor by submerging on an appropriately gradual diagonal with the help of his side fins, which were set at a 45 degrees angle to the Nautilus's waterline.
We kept rising on a diagonal, going along this shiny surface that sparkled beneath our electric rays.
Captain Nemo had brought a spyglass with a reticular eyepiece, which corrected the sun's refraction by means of a mirror, and he used it to observe the orb sinking little by little along a very extended diagonal that reached below the horizon.
The Nautilus would do long, diagonal dives that took us to every level.
Everyone had just had his hair cut; ears stood out from the heads; they had been close-shaved; a few, even, who had had to get up before daybreak, and not been able to see to shave, had diagonal gashes under their noses or cuts the size of a three-franc piece along the jaws, which the fresh air en route had enflamed, so that the great white beaming faces were mottled here and there with red dabs.
At length he came to the summit of the high mountain, beneath which he must pass in order to arrive, by this diagonal route, at the lonely valley in which his friend Fouque, the young timber merchant, lived.
He began to circle round the cone of the crater, but in a diagonal direction so as to facilitate our progress.
The fifteen hundred remaining feet took us five hours to clear; the circuitous route, the diagonal and the counter marches, must have measured at least three leagues.
"Without reckoning, too, that if a vertical depth of sixteen leagues can be attained only by a diagonal descent of eighty-four, it follows that we must go eight thousand miles in a south-easterly direction; so that we shall emerge from some point in the earth's circumference instead of getting to the centre!""Confusion to all your figures, and all your hypotheses besides," shouted my uncle in a sudden rage.