Athwart is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ATHWART in dictionary:

VERB:
• Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.
• Across the course; so as to thwart; perversely.
PREPOSITION:
• from side to side of; across
• in opposition to; counter to
• Across; from side to side of.
• Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course.
ADVERB:
• across; transversely
• across from side to side; transversely
• so as to be perverse or contradictory
• at right angles to the center line of a ship
• at an oblique angle
• transversely

Words related to ATHWART

overthwart19 transversely18

Words that contain ATHWART

athwartship22 athwartships23

How to use ATHWART in a sentence

• It was only a bird, and as I looked again at the rock it seemed as if a spray of vine had blown athwart it, which was not there before.
• The gale came athwart the deck, and every sail seemed bursting with its wild breath.
• His eye swept rapidly up and down where the banks used to be until he saw a cross current deeper than the rest sweeping in athwart the inundated fields.
• They walked athwart the metallic and leathery tumult of sound into the light cast by the little circle of yellow lamps.
• Here was a change, however, and a ray, brighter than common, shone athwart the darkness of his future.
• The sunset sky was green-blue, and black strips of cloud lay athwart it.
• If justice throw athwart our way, A deepening eve of fear and sorrow, Hope, like the moon, reflects the ray Of the bright sun that shines to-morrow.
• He went athwart one of their meadows, leaving a track of trampled grass behind his feet, and presently sat down by the side of one of their ways.
• Impassable rivers lay athwart their homeward route, and hemmed them in.
• Now a shooting meteor passed athwart the sky, and vanished behind the hill.
• As Margaret stepped from the little bark to the shore, a large grey snake passed athwart her pathway and disappeared into a hole at the roots of a tree.
• He could picture the great fleet, seal of the sea-power which made all possible, spread itself athwart the Solent.
• Even the startled leap of a rabbit that shot athwart his immediate course was greeted with nothing more than a snort and a toss of his swinging head.
• It was drawing toward evening and long slanting shadows were falling athwart the landscape.
• The horn cast an odd shadow athwart the bed, so that a big claw seemed to lie on the coverlet curving towards the throat of her who lay there.
• I stood close beside the chief mate to windward, holding to the brass rail that ran athwart the break of the poop.
• It was a golden evening and the setting sun was shining athwart her windows.
• Now his capable glance ran aft along every marginal line of the boat, now it dropped below to where the big stage lay drawn in athwart the forward deck from guard to guard.
• Its beams and the blue shadows that divided them lay level, miles long, athwart the glassy stream and its green and gray forests and tapered and vanished in a low eastern haze.
• He went down like a felled tree, and lay as he fell athwart the floor of the outer room.
• I looked out and saw watery clouds scudding athwart the face of the murky sky.
• About the edges of the great windows in the chamber the light began to peep as if loath to cast one disturbing glance athwart the room.
• The sound of an opening door and a shadow athwart the threshold disturbed his meditations.
• They came to the junction of the highway and the cross-lane leading to that village, whose church-tower could be seen athwart the hollow.
• The broad forest gleamed green as before, and only in spots, athwart the close network of the branches, could tufts of something white be seen melting away.
• Some of the other guests had come out in time to see the latter part of this spectacle, as it trembled athwart the heavens.

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