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Meanings of right angles in English

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Usage of right angles in English
1
Stand with your torso at right angles to your body, back straight.
Rock and Ice Magazine
2
Pinned near the baseline, he could no longer find the right angles.
The Guardian
3
The timbers in adjacent courses are at right angles to each other.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 613, October 1, 1887
4
A few yards in front the path turned at almost right angles.
Hunting the Lions
5
Chairs at the right angles, tables convenient, but never in the way.
Joyce of the North Woods
6
At the further end the road cut it across at right angles.
Rodney Stone
7
He remembered turning the Winnebago, shifting it at right angles to everything.
American Gods
8
The vibration of the pendulum was at right angles to my length.
The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2
9
The end of the pistil is generally bent upwards at right angles.
The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species
10
Now as to the mountain range crossing the canyon at right angles.
The Last of the Plainsmen
11
There were hard right angles everywhere, suitable for bumping knees and elbows.
Ringworld
12
They were more boxlike, with harder right angles, and copper in color.
Antiphon
13
They were at right angles to the type, and just beneath it.
The Grell Mystery
14
At right angles with the river and lake is located Fort Niagara.
See America First
15
I was standing right across the court at right angles to him.
If Winter Comes
16
We seemed to be moving at right angles to the Indian march.
Salute to Adventurers
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Right angles through the time
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United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common
Ireland
Less common