sideways

CEFRB1

/ˈsaɪdweɪz/

adjective

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Sits at B1 on the CEFR scale

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Giving Mary a sideways glance, he said,[…].
He gave the ball a sideways kick.
There was a stack of papers in front of each seat at the table, but each stack was sideways.

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As we walked deeper into the darkness, we both knew this could go sideways in a heartbeat. We were sitting ducks. Birds on a wire. Canaries in a coalmine.
2011, D. P. Lyle, chapter 78, in Hot Lights, Cold Steel, →ISBN, page 340
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron;[…]. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable, and from time to time squinting sideways, as usual, in the ever-renewed expectation that he might catch a glimpse of his stiff, retroussé moustache.
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
It feels like the probability of something going sideways here is higher.
2023 May 20, Tabby Kinder, George Hammond, quoting Ivan Matkovic, “So long, San Francisco”, in FT Weekend (Life & Arts section), London: The Financial Times Ltd., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1
And he was just taking byways and sideways, travelling in the peripheries of civilization, yeah?
2002, Joseph Brodsky, Cynthia L. Haven, Joseph Brodsky: Conversations, page 169
In time our way merged into a throng of cars flowing here and there on the highways and sideways of the north side of Los Angeles.
2006, David Haskell, Roundabout the USA, page 103

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