Oblique used in a sentence

Oblique in a sentence as a noun

No, but my point was a bit oblique.

I'd guess that this is an oblique reference to working in finance.

Sorry for the oblique phrasing -- I was trying to avoid being self-promotional.

So here's an oblique question, one that does not argue with your perfectly understandable feelings about Freedom of Speech.

A precursor is a very strong dynamic wind caused by the shells oblique angle of approach, and its high horizontal speed.

Let me try again since apparently I was a little oblique: Consider the set of statements you could make to announce that you have a full pipeline.

"an open corridor down the middle"So the next innovation will be an open corridor on an oblique line from a back corner to the instructor.

Oblique in a sentence as an adjective

I will say I've never forgiven them for cheerleading the Iraq War and then publishing an oblique and weasel-worded come-down in about 2008.

[1] Sorry about being so oblique, the transaction was complicated and not particularly germane to the story.

Near the equinoxes, the Sun's apparent path is more oblique, so some of its apparent velocity occurs in the north-south direction leaving its apparent east-west motion slower.

So, a couple sentences admonishing the masses to write something better plus one oblique reference to him "trying like **** to make it happen" equals "trying to bring forward a better alternative"?Show me the ******* code, Jeff.

All languages are incredibly oblique to their runtime environments, especially in distributed scenarios.

It's not a responsiveness or tracking issue, it's that interacting with screens at oblique angles is annoying and many times tilt/rotation interactions require pretty large arm movements compared to finger movements, limiting when and where they're useful.