angle shot

noun

: a picture taken with the camera pointed at an angle from the horizontal

Examples of angle shot in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Young Bird Photographer of the Year The Young Bird Photographer of the Year 2024 was awarded to 14-year-old Spanish photographer Andrés Luis Domínguez Blanco for his creative angle shot of a Eurasian Nuthatch scrambling down an oak tree. Cecilia Rodriguez, Forbes, 23 Sep. 2024 The cameraman had positioned himself in the burial pit to get a low-angle shot of the bodies sliding down a shoot. Thomas Doherty, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Feb. 2023 The roughly 31-minute clip is an overhead surveillance wide-angle shot taken from a city surveillance camera that offers a bird's-eye view of the unsettling beating. Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 29 Jan. 2023 Mrázek handed off the puck behind the net to Isaak Phillips, who made a savvy stretch pass to Athanasiou, who then flipped a sharp-angle shot over Avs goalie Pavel Francouz. Phil Thompson, Chicago Tribune, 13 Jan. 2023 See all Example Sentences for angle shot 

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Word History

First Known Use

circa 1922, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of angle shot was circa 1922

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“Angle shot.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/angle%20shot. Accessed 2 Oct. 2024.

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