Swept along in the middle of the current, it was unnecessary to give it an oblique direction until they drew near the quays of Irkutsk.

He was crossing in an oblique direction.

Richer stated that Gerbert discovered that stars coursed in an oblique direction across the night sky.

When the knee is semi-flexed, the biceps femoris in consequence of its oblique direction rotates the leg slightly outward.

Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.

John and Wilson seized their oars again, and managed to push it in an oblique direction.

No other singer was aloft to see the direction they took, direct or oblique.

In the female, it has a slightly oblique direction downward and laterally, to compensate for the greater obliqueness of the femur.

Also, since the canyon cut across the rocks in an oblique direction, the layers also sloped backward into the hill.

The mine starts in a more or less oblique direction till it reaches the midrib or margin of the leaf.