Use "askew" in a sentence

1. He had a kit bag over his shoulder and wore his cap all askew upon his head, because he was coming home from the wars and although not yet formally and officially de-mobbed, he simply didn’t feel like complying with dress regulations anymore

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2. Sometimes our definition of love becomes askew with our emotions

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3. his cap all askew upon his head, because he was coming home

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4. The rubbish bins she tidied up every week were askew amidst floating bits of rubbish and broken glass

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5. Jodie would have been almost perfectly formed had it not been for her slightly askew snout

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6. His yellow tinted glasses were all askew and if looked through at that particular level, one would see a horizon of approximately thirty four inches or equivalent to an inside leg measurement from the floor

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7. In such a futile situation, the realisation dawned that his priorities had been askew

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8. A man whose self-image has gone far askew, a false image which he carries within his heart

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9. The darkness of the night now looked all askew as she valiantly staggered up once more, then down, and nothing

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10. Her glasses are askew, and her eyes are empty of feeling

11. At that he looks up, his glasses askew, scowling like he’s about to chastise me

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12. Typical of any old garbage can, its lid askew, on any suburban lawn

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13. Therese comes in, her factionless armband askew

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14. Cara jogs into the atrium, her hair askew and floating over her forehead

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15. What shook her to the core was how his actions sat askew with what the Book of Blood was said to be

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16. over now, but also his suspicions that something was askew

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17. On the far side of the clearing a rusting corrugated iron shed leaned against a drunkenly askew verandah

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18. Closed windows left the house airless and stale, while sunlight slanting through recklessly askew venetian blinds, illuminated swathes of dust-spangled webs around the bookcase and under lounge-room chairs

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19. The entire roof had lifted about half a metre into the air before plonking back drunkenly askew on the walls

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20. Glass was broken, doors hung askew and there was nature encroaching on its domains

21. Inside the broken and askew door, I found the lading office which looked as if the owner had only just left

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22. Each will pay, For the time spent askew

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23. publications lying askew in three corners, an old fashioned console radio with teeth-

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24. His collar was undone and his blue tie askew

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25. After touching second base at full speed, his foot caught the bag askew, collapsing him between third and second

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26. While standing above him, he wondered if he should just kill him with the electricity? He then stared at the long, brown wig that was now slightly askew

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27. hair, askew beneath the visor he was wearing, betrayed his true age

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28. “Why you,” she said contemptuously, “what you tryin’ to do? Wantin’ me to have a heart attack?” Her pince-nez seemed slightly askew on her wide nose and full cheeks, and her dark eyes seemed to breathe fire at the prankster who was smiling devilishly

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29. The pillows on the sofa were somewhat askew, and the firm indentations on the cushions indicated the presence of a large body not long ago

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30. On the seat next to him lay the day’s Herald and Yvonne Barns’ file, its contents askew with the movement of the vehicle

31. The royal sash was missing, the top hat was askew, but it covered his gloved hands

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32. Her face was askew

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33. Tina stared at his eye patch which was partially askew

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34. His present surroundings looked familiar, but something was askew

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35. The old woman with the askew long haired wig and big shades still comes in

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36. It slipped and he fell forward, legs askew

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37. Hardly had she said it, hardly had the bishop's wife had time to open her mouth and stare in stoniest astonishment, hardly had I had time to follow her petrified gaze, than an old man in a long waterproof garment with a green felt hat set askew on his venerable head, came nimbly up behind Charlotte, and bending down to her unsuspecting ear shouted into it the amazing monosyllable 'Bo!'

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38. Two empty bottles lay askew on the floor next to the recliner; the ash tray that normally rested on the other side of the chair had toppled over onto the carpet

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39. It is here that I see the blood in her nose and the way her eyes are askew

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40. But despite her eyes being askew and blood coming out of her nose, something else seems wrong

41. Who said they can prove anything, he could tell them their view of what he was doing was askew, that he’d no intentions of injuring Pine

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42. There hadn't been time for a change back to casual clothes, so he did what he could in the car park to destroy the grooming; tie off, sleeves rolled up, belt askew, that would have to do

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43. Victor, who had emerged earlier from an upstairs bedroom with his toga askew, leaned back and put his feet up on the arm of the couch

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44. It was madness, the blood all over the wall, the sampler hanging askew

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45. wildly askew on his head

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46. around the edges from having his sleep schedule thrown askew, but after the

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47. And the light mounts over the faces of all the tall blind houses, slides through a chink and paints the lustrous bellying crimson curtains; the green wine-glasses; the coffee- cups; and the chairs standing askew

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48. But all this, he declared, did not so much grieve or distress him as his certain knowledge that a prodigious giant, the lord of a great island close to our kingdom, Pandafilando of the Scowl by name--for it is averred that, though his eyes are properly placed and straight, he always looks askew as if he squinted, and this he does out of malignity, to strike fear and terror into those he looks at--that he knew, I say, that this giant on becoming aware of my orphan condition would overrun my kingdom with a mighty force and strip me of all, not leaving me even a small village to shelter me; but that I could avoid all this ruin and misfortune if I were willing to marry him; however, as far as he could see, he never expected that I would consent to a marriage so unequal; and he said no more than the truth in this, for it has never entered my mind to marry that giant, or any other, let him be ever so great or enormous

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49. If this expressive article of dress was drawn low upon the forehead, it was a sign that hard work was going on, in exciting moments it was pushed rakishly askew, and when despair seized the author it was plucked wholly off, and cast upon the floor, and cast upon the floor

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50. "What worries you dear? Has anything dreadful happened?" asked the anxious John, tenderly kissing the crown of the little cap, which was all askew

51. His Elvis wig was askew

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52. He heaves his booty, tugs askew his peaked cap and hobbles off mutely

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53. The face of a streetwalker glazed and haggard under a black straw hat peered askew round the door of the shelter palpably reconnoitring on her own with the object of bringing more grist to her mill

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54. Old Governor Bellingham would come grimly forth, with his King James's ruff fastened askew; and Mistress Hibbins, with some twigs of the forest clinging to her skirts, and looking sourer than ever, as having hardly got a wink of sleep after her night ride; and good Father Wilson, too, after spending half the night at a death-bed, and liking ill to be disturbed, thus early, out of his dreams about the glorified saints

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55. One eyelid was misshapen and closed askew

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56. At the corner of the pavement, in a short, stylish overcoat and a low-crowned fashionable hat, jauntily askew, with a smile that showed a gleam of white teeth and red lips, stood Stepan Arkadyevitch, radiant, young, and beaming

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57. For a word, for one little word, he felt he would have knelt, cringed, grovelled on the floor before the drowsy, conscious stare of those fixed eyeballs starting out of the grimy, dishevelled head that drooped very still with its mouth closed askew

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58. Meade with her bonnet askew and her arm through that of fifteenyear-old Phil; the Misses McLure trying to make their trembling upper lips cover their buck teeth; Mrs

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59. He sat in an attitude which to anyone else would have been one of extreme discomfort, askew in his upright armchair, with his book held high and obliquely to the light

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60. askew, she had forgotten the Gerald of the last two years, the vague old gentleman who As they jolted slowly down the darkening road, her head on his shoulder, her bonnet stared at doors waiting for a woman who would never enter

61. I saw the Gin-Sellers with their pockmarkt Faces, their Wigs askew, their greasy Coat Pockets stuff’d with Coppers

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62. Don’t create bad habits of buying junk just because the market is temporarily askew

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63. That’s when she’d said please, and his universe had been knocked askew

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64. O Zephine, O Josephine, face more than irregular, you would be charming were you not all askew

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65. For she looked as if she had gone backstage, shrugged on a rumpled tweed walking suit, one size too large, gravy-spotted and grass-stained, and then purposely rumpled her hair, painted her lipstick askew, and was on the point of exiting the stage door when someone cried, "You're on!"

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66. He had a spear in his hand and a leather helmet askew on his head

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67. Things were askew! The doors were open to the balcony! "Look at the smoke," I whispered

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68. Armoires were bulging with clothes and all askew

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69. Her white coat was spattered with dried blood, her name tag askew, her face drawn, her eyes huge and hungry

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70. Buck cast a malevolent look at the bird, and then, his cigar tip-tilted and the corner of his mouth sarcastically askew, suggested with an air as though the idea were the limit of satiric impossibility: