I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
sun
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The sun was slanting in through the windows and heating the place up.
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The late evening sun slanted in from the west.
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And then, quite suddenly, it was full morning and the sun was slanting across the floor of the rooms.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And he blasted the media for slanting the coverage against Simpson to prolong the story.
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In one corner was a fixed, small desk with a slanted top.
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The face, the eyes, are downward slanted.
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The final selection was slanted towards books with a strong social content and which explored political issues.
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The lines, mainly in block letters, wander and slant across the page.
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The questions had, for the most part, been slanted to the factual points about where people were on Friday night and Saturday afternoon.
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The temperature hovered just above freezing, and a brisk wind turned the rain into slanting sheets of icy daggers.
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Tunney reached for the blind, slanted up the edge and bowed his way in.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
new
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Pippa Greenwood gives a new and refreshing slant on overcoming the problems of a sloping garden.
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Or give a new slant to commonly known facts.
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And school was never like this ... the egghead with a new slant on science.
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Older people are just as capable of providing new slants and ideas as anyone else.
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It provided a new slant on his character.
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A NatWest Home Improvement Loan could give you a new slant on living!
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It was a new slant on the eternal problem of the one who kisses and the one who is kissed.
■ VERB
put
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But it's just as easy to put another slant on it.
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After all, it is only putting an evolutionary slant on what everybody knows about everyday life.
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Paul in 1 Corinthians 7 seems to put another slant on this from the perspective of Roman life in the first century.
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That puts a slant on my whole career.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Several readers objected to the article's strong Republican slant .
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A slant of sun on large clean table, dancing barley-sugar splashes through the marmalade jar.
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Bob presses a button, and his bed rises in the back at a slant .
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Even you guys in the media... the slant is always about winning.
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Pippa Greenwood gives a new and refreshing slant on overcoming the problems of a sloping garden.
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That puts a slant on my whole career.
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The slant was coming and I beat the receiver to it.
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There's something missing, something that could change the whole slant of our investigation.