endwise

IPA: ˈɛndwaɪz

adjective

  • On-end; upright; pertaining or relating to the end.

adverb

  • Upright, or standing on end.
  • With the end towards the front or towards the observer.
  • Towards the ends.
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Examples of "endwise" in Sentences

  • It was made of gigantic boulders stabbed endwise into the ground.
  • "endwise" by Mr. Hurley's practised fists after Hayne was struck down by the corporal's musket.
  • In one of Lincoln's earliest military problems was involved the process of getting his company "endwise" through a gate.
  • As she ran to catch up, Aya realized that the opening was exactly the right size for one of the cylinders to pass through endwise.
  • Secondly, do NOT think that you are going to hold back the ending because "I want the editor to be knocked endwise by the twist when s/he reads the book".
  • This was Hamilton Grange's second move; in 1889, a developer offered it free for the taking, and the nearby church, after razing the house's portico and piazzas, rolled it two blocks down from the top of Harlem Heights, where it overlooked both Long Island Sound and the Hudson River, and shoehorned it in endwise to serve as a rectory.

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