obliquity - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • ecliptic: This angle is known as the obliquity of the ecliptic and is about 23.5 degrees.
  • vision: He can see straight enough for all the apparent obliquity of vision.

Converse of object

  • change: As far as is known, Robert Plot's idea to measure the changing obliquity from the churchyard at Leek was never carried out.
  • call: This, incidentally, is the angle ( called the obliquity ) the equator makes with the plane of the Earth's orbit.

Adjective modifier

  • pelvic: Lay her down and noticed huge scoliosis with pelvic obliquity.
  • moral: I thought it was desperately funny, and was densely unconscious that there was any moral obliquity about such a publication.

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