He turned to some young women on his left, and said, “I played center field.” Sensing skepticism, he added, “Yeah, for the Mets.” “You?” one asked, exchanging sidelong glances with her friend.
The Scottish flag is the St Andrew’s cross — two white, diagonal bands — on a blue background.
When vertical and horizontal forces are applied, the resultant acts in diagonal direction.
diagonal /daɪˈæɡənl; US / adj. 1 (used about a straight line) joining two sides of sth at an angle that is not 90° or vertical or horizontal Draw a diagonal line from one corner of the square to the opposite corner. ▶ przekątny
Slice the vegetables on the diagonal.
A diagonal matrix is positive semidefinite if and only if all of its elements are nonnegative.