HORIZONTAL in a Sentence
Learn HORIZONTAL from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
34 example sentences for HORIZONTAL, such as:
1. a spouting fish, with a horizontal tail.
2. He shifted his position from the horizontal.
3. It is very hard to get that horizontal surface.
4. The board consists of vertical and horizontal lines.
5. Draw a horizontal line across the bottom of the page.
2. He shifted his position from the horizontal.
3. It is very hard to get that horizontal surface.
4. The board consists of vertical and horizontal lines.
5. Draw a horizontal line across the bottom of the page.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of HORIZONTAL
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horizontal
a. parallel to or in the plane of the horizon or a base line
n. something that is oriented horizontally
Classic Sentence: (26 in 2 pages)
1 Whereas, among spouting fish the tail, though it may be similarly shaped, invariably assumes a horizontal position.
2 Strictly speaking, this horn is but a lengthened tusk, growing out from the jaw in a line a little depressed from the horizontal.
3 a spouting fish, with a horizontal tail.
4 In profile, you plainly perceive that horizontal, semi-crescentic depression in the forehead's middle, which, in man, is Lavater's mark of genius.
5 By great exertion, Tashtego at last succeeded in planting one iron; but the stricken whale, without at all sounding, still continued his horizontal flight, with added fleetness.
6 The fibres in the upper and lower layers, are long and horizontal; those of the middle one, very short, and running crosswise between the outside layers.
7 First: Being horizontal in its position, the Leviathan's tail acts in a different manner from the tails of all other sea creatures.
8 We could find out whether they ran straight down, or were horizontal, like mole-holes; whether they had underground connections; whether the owls had nests down there, lined with feathers.
9 They were thick and almost horizontal, emphasizing the depth of her eyes.
10 The billowing smoke was filled with horizontal flashes.
11 A direct fall from upright to horizontal, which was the end of the other fighting characters, was not an elegant or decorous part for a girl.
12 The sun had already gone below the horizon and the west was flaming gold, touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson.
13 Swinging myself in, I found it was the aperture of a narrow horizontal tunnel in which I could lie down and rest.
14 The sky was clear, remote, and empty save for a few horizontal bars far down in the sunset.
15 The horizontal slats were missing here and there and had been naively replaced with boards nailed on perpendicularly; so that what began as a blind ended as a shutter.
Example Sentence:
1 The board consists of vertical and horizontal lines.
2 Draw a horizontal line across the bottom of the page.
3 The plumbline is always perpendicular to the horizontal plane.
4 He shifted his position from the horizontal.
5 It is very hard to get that horizontal surface.
6 Consider, for example, an ion which crosses the horizontal plane at the point K, where its velocity is entirely vertical.
7 Hold your hoop horizontally, with its opening in front of you, so that it is touching your back.
8 They drilled horizontally, then pummelled shale with sand and water, a process known as fracking, until the rock relinquished its oil and gas.