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plural of sideway quotations examples
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
Expansion of economic activities resulted in the construction of a so—called fishbone pattern of roads and sideways.
2013, Pitou van Dijck, The Impact of the IIRSA Road Infrastructure Programme on Amazonia, page 81
comparative more sideways, superlative most sideways
Moving or directed toward one side. examples
(informal) Positioned sideways (with a side to the front). examples
(informal) Neither moving upward nor moving downward. examples
(usually with "with", informal) In conflict (with); not compatible (with). examples
With a side to the front. examples
Towards one side. quotations examples
“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
Askance; sidelong. examples
(informal) Neither upward nor downward. examples
(chiefly US, colloquial) Not as planned; towards a worse outcome. quotations examples
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, page 340
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, page 1