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an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)- The lines intersect at right angles.
- His left arm was somewhat shorter than his right; when he stood or walked, the back of his hand was at right angles to his body, his thumb parallel to his thigh.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- But after closer investigation I found that I was lying on my stomach with my arm bent at a right angle.Maya Angelou -- I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
- There was a little passage in front of me, unpapered and uncarpeted, which turned at a right angle at the farther end.Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
- Oddly, Nancy's grave has been placed at Kinnear's feet, and at right angles to him; the effect is of a sort of bed rug.Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace
- Right-angle turn at the end of the hall.Marie Lu -- Legend
- Missiles and hurled spears turned in mid-flight to speed off at right angles before they could touch upon the chariot or its occupants.Roger Zelazny -- Lord of Light
- He walked slowly toward the truck, his eyes on me the whole way, black beret tilted at exactly the right angle on his head.Laurie Halse Anderson -- The Impossible Knife of Memory
- The Persian lit his lamp again and flung its rays down two enormous corridors that crossed each other at right angles.Gaston Leroux -- The Phantom of the Opera
- In 464 BCE, I caused an earthquake that wiped out most of Sparta by hitting a fault line at the right angle.Rick Riordan -- The Hidden Oracle
- No, it won't have right angles and corners (pressure vessels don't like those).Andy Weir -- The Martian
- I wonder if he sometimes places his feet at just the right angle and adds a special grip to his handshake?Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- This is Doak Place, running off here at right angles.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- Now Tom turned so that he stood at right angles, still calmly working away at the rope and though once he looked up at Grace and smiled.Nicholas Evans -- The Horse Whisperer
- If I turned directly toward it and held out my left arm at a right angle, that way was west, the way I was headed.Marcus Luttrell -- Lone Survivor
- When we saw them from the rear of the house, they were both about half open—that is to say, they stood off at right angles from the wall.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Murders in the Rue Morgue
- She rolled down her window and waited for the right angle.Nora Roberts -- Summer Pleasures
- I led them back around that right angle some fifty feet and stopped.Robert A. Heinlein -- Glory Road
- Here he was, late in his senior year in high school, and he'd never heard of a right angle, or the Civil War, or I Love Lucy.Michael Lewis -- The Blind Side
- Presently the trail bent sharply at right angles.William Faulkner -- Light in August
right angles = an angle measuring 90 degrees (like the angle between a classroom floor and wall)
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