Above his head was the slanting line of fire-escape ladders at the back of the hotel.

The Shadow threw himself backward down the slanting line of the fire-escape ladder.

It was as if they had simply disappeared into the slanting lines of the falling water itself!

In the examples 2/5 and 7/3, the slanting line is called a solidus or forward slash.

And the Jumper was cut by a slanting line, bright red, next to Chanda's fingertip.

They flew ten degrees to port of spinward, a slanting line across Speaker's hand-drawn map.

Over centuries it reduces to a slanting line with a loop at the bottom.

There was no chin; the face sloped down to the neck in a slanting line.

His blue-green eyes held a shadow as Nik stared dully into the slanting lines of rain.

The automatism is in the slanting lines with which the artist garnishes the finished work.