Usage of "kitty-corner"

Slanted across a polygon on a diagonal line.

Похожие термины

oblique

Синонимы

Examples for "catercorner"

Santiago also runs an Asian restaurant, a sort of noodle shop, catercorner to Standard. 
 Cleaving 

But Edward is seated on my opposite side and Isabel far off, catercorner to him. 
 The day the falls stood still 

From my living room, I trained my binoculars on the redbrick monstrosity catercorner from me. 
 11/22/63 

She sees it catercorner from her present coordinates. 
 Snow Crash 

He indicated that I should sit catercorner to him, and with his foot, he pushed out another chair. 
 Fear nothing 

He said, "I know a short cut, cater-cornered across the new clearing." 
 Westways: A Village Chronicle 

I met the most embarrassingly cater-cornered families. 
 Lady Baltimore 

Across the table from him, cater-cornered, at Mr. Morse's right, sat Judge Blount, a local superior court judge. 
 Martin Eden 

Waterworks is situated catty-corner from the borough hall and the police station. 
 Robin and ruby 

Eddie Garcia sat catty-corner from her, on her right, smiling and nodding. 
 The devil's bones: a body farm novel 

There was a couple, male and female, sitting catty-corner from the first two. 
 Guilty Pleasures 

There was a pharmacy catty-corner from where he sat. 
 Pines 

At the same time, Sam's door, catty-corner across the hall, swung open and he stepped forth. 
 Ladder of years: a novel 

I sat on the edge of the old recliner catty-cornered to it. 
 Dead to the world 

He kitty-cornered the intersection and pulled up alongside her. 
 The Servant Problem 

The invitations were folded kitty-cornered and inside of each appeared a fat fuzzy little gray puss taken from a real pussy-willow branch. 
 Entertaining Made Easy 

Использование термина kitty-corner на английском

Mike Nelson: The Minnesota Vikings had their training camp kitty-corner from us. 
 Wired 

He sat kitty-corner in a chair of carved wood and inlaid ivory. 
 Layover in dubai 

Nancy had dropped my arm and was gliding kitty-corner fashion, across the floor. 
 The Man on the Box 

Then tipping the board kitty-corner, he was able to shimmy it through the opening. 
 The bricklayer 

Most unsettling of all was what we learned about the small house kitty-corner from ours. 
 Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog 

She cut kitty-corner across the mall's imitation marble floor. 
 Midnight hero 

One day he said the wind had lifted him and carried him kitty-corner across the street. 
 The new yorker 

Sitting kitty-corner to me at a conference table, he looked smaller and thinner than his photographs. 
 100 New Yorkers of the 1970s 

There, Pel and Keo occupied two of the four seats, sitting kitty-corner across from each other. 
 Ascension 

I indicated the chair kitty-corner to me. 
 Pasta Imperfect 

Rusty's grave, dug with meticulous care by Tellis Blackmore and his backhoe, lay just kitty-corner to his grandfather's. 
 The lonely polygamist: a novel 

Another door, kitty-corner to the entry, was ajar, the gleaming edge of a toilet promising a private bath. 
 Shadow fall 

A longtime widow, she lived kitty-corner down the gravel lane with her daughter, her son-in-law, and her two grandchildren. 
 The favorites: a novel 

He was eating a pretzel and listening to a bulky transistor radio that was sitting kitty-corner on his handcart. 
 Night Shift 

Then he leaped, an astonishing burst of motion that flung him from Margrit's balcony to the next one up, kitty-corner. 
 Heart of stone 

Hunter and quarry raced up the sidewalk until the woman reached an intersection and turned to dash kitty-corner through it. 
 Salvador strike 

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Значения термина kitty-corner на английском