Vaulting the stile, he headed diagonally across the paddock.
A usually miter-shaped chess piece that can move diagonally across any number of unoccupied spaces.
The skirt is cut on the bias, ie cut with the threads running diagonally across the weave.
A physician who lived diagonally across the street from the family offered to let them live in his home.
If a person wants to cross to the diagonally opposite corner of where they are, and walk diagonally across the intersection instead of safely crossing the street twice, they are literally cutting corners.
When he first came, this was the very empty camera case that he was carrying, slung diagonally across his shoulder just like how a traveler would carry his water bottle.
