All 15 Uses of
diagonal
in
The Bourne Identity
- The two men started diagonally across the lobby together, the woman toward the front desk.†
Chpt 5 *diagonally = in a sloped manner
- Diagonally across the street from the entrance.†
Chpt 11
- We will not lose it" The driver plunged diagonally forward into the combat of traffic.†
Chpt 13
- The major in the back seat dozed, his long body angled into the corner, his legs stretched out diagonally across the floor.†
Chpt 19
- The limousine was parked between two streetlamps, diagonally across from the heavy ornamental doors of the brownstone.†
Chpt 20
- The white cloth of the shirt was punctured in a half-dozen places, a diagonal line of bullets across the chest.†
Chpt 21diagonal = sloped
- The elevator had been on his left when he had entered, not after he had parked the car; it had been diagonally' to his right then.†
Chpt 32diagonally = in a sloped manner
- Bourne crouched, diving diagonally backward as four gunshots came in rapid succession, three screeching ricochets spinning off beyond sound.†
Chpt 32
- He crouched in the shadows of the corner building, diagonally across from the two men in the stationary sedan.†
Chpt 33
- Jason ran diagonally across the intersection, one more running figure in the rapidly gathering crowd.†
Chpt 33
- I've made arrangements for you to be in an unmarked government car diagonally across from the house.†
Chpt 35
- He twisted his fingers inward, yanking his hands together, vicing the forearm beneath his blood-soaked neck and wrenched the arm diagonally up.†
Chpt 35
- The instant it stopped, Jason raised his own weapon and fired diagonally through the door; the burst was repeated.†
Chpt 35
- Bourne sprang out of his recess and fired four shots in rapid succession at the figure on the staircase; a line of bullet holes and eruptions of blood appeared diagonally across the man's collar.†
Chpt 35
- Instead, he crouched, then sprang like a white panther diagonally forward, his hands outstretched.†
Chpt 35
Definition:
a straight line connecting opposite corners of a rectangle; or a slope that could connect the corners of an imaginary rectangle that has one side parallel to the floor