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Meanings of sidewise in English

Toward one side.

Usage of sidewise in English
1
The room lurched; went upward and sidewise with a wild dizzying swoop.
Beyond the Vanishing Point
2
Park slid sidewise in the saddle and proceeded to roll another cigarette.
The Lure of the Dim Trails
3
Up and down and sidewise bobbed the loose head of the toy.
The Story of a Nodding Donkey
4
The rocks slid by close under me in a swift sidewise drift.
Wandl the Invader
5
Colina followed, swinging sidewise in her saddle and watching the Indians behind.
The Fur Bringers: A Story of the Canadian Northwest
6
I stepped sidewise toward the centre, and ran against the wall opposite.
Jacqueline of Golden River
7
He swept a boot behind her, shifting to stand sidewise, facing her.
The irish warrior
8
They're such a handsome couple.' She slides a sidewise smile at me.
The King’s Curse
9
Mr. Briggs continued to move sidewise and backward over the tent flooring.
Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point / Or, Finding the Glor...
10
So I struggle along sidewise farther into the crevice, where it narrows.
Canyons of the Colorado
11
He was sitting so that the light fell sidewise on his face.
The Mettle of the Pasture
12
He caught the significance of her words, and her sudden sidewise gesture.
God's Country—And the Woman
13
The Cross slipped sidewise past the Disk, its courtiers, its stellated guardians.
The Metal Monster
14
I read further, sidewise and backwards, in these pamphlets, without exhausting them.
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 18...
15
Kin long dead washed up and cast fey sidewise looks upon him.
The road
16
She seats herself on the ground sidewise, with both feet under her.
Old Indian Days
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Sidewise across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common