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Meanings of kitty-corner in English
Slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line.
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Examples for "catercorner"
Examples for "catercorner"
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Santiago also runs an Asian restaurant, a sort of noodle shop, catercorner to Standard.
2
But Edward is seated on my opposite side and Isabel far off, catercorner to him.
3
From my living room, I trained my binoculars on the redbrick monstrosity catercorner from me.
4
She sees it catercorner from her present coordinates.
5
He indicated that I should sit catercorner to him, and with his foot, he pushed out another chair.
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He said, "I know a short cut, cater-cornered across the new clearing."
2
I met the most embarrassingly cater-cornered families.
3
Across the table from him, cater-cornered, at Mr. Morse's right, sat Judge Blount, a local superior court judge.
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Waterworks is situated catty-corner from the borough hall and the police station.
2
Eddie Garcia sat catty-corner from her, on her right, smiling and nodding.
3
There was a couple, male and female, sitting catty-corner from the first two.
4
There was a pharmacy catty-corner from where he sat.
5
At the same time, Sam's door, catty-corner across the hall, swung open and he stepped forth.
1
I sat on the edge of the old recliner catty-cornered to it.
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He kitty-cornered the intersection and pulled up alongside her.
2
The invitations were folded kitty-cornered and inside of each appeared a fat fuzzy little gray puss taken from a real pussy-willow branch.
Usage of kitty-corner in English
1
Mike Nelson: The Minnesota Vikings had their training camp kitty-corner from us.
2
He sat kitty-corner in a chair of carved wood and inlaid ivory.
3
Nancy had dropped my arm and was gliding kitty-corner fashion, across the floor.
4
Then tipping the board kitty-corner, he was able to shimmy it through the opening.
5
Most unsettling of all was what we learned about the small house kitty-corner from ours.
6
She cut kitty-corner across the mall's imitation marble floor.
7
One day he said the wind had lifted him and carried him kitty-corner across the street.
8
Sitting kitty-corner to me at a conference table, he looked smaller and thinner than his photographs.
9
There, Pel and Keo occupied two of the four seats, sitting kitty-corner across from each other.
10
I indicated the chair kitty-corner to me.
11
Rusty's grave, dug with meticulous care by Tellis Blackmore and his backhoe, lay just kitty-corner to his grandfather's.
12
Another door, kitty-corner to the entry, was ajar, the gleaming edge of a toilet promising a private bath.
13
A longtime widow, she lived kitty-corner down the gravel lane with her daughter, her son-in-law, and her two grandchildren.
14
He was eating a pretzel and listening to a bulky transistor radio that was sitting kitty-corner on his handcart.
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Then he leaped, an astonishing burst of motion that flung him from Margrit's balcony to the next one up, kitty-corner.
16
Hunter and quarry raced up the sidewalk until the woman reached an intersection and turned to dash kitty-corner through it.