LATERAL in a Sentence

Learn LATERAL 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.
379 example sentences for LATERAL, such as:
1. I'll see you in the bar later.
2. But I will come to the dream later.
3. I might go along to the party later.
4. Three days later Mollie disappeared.
5. The initial talks were the base of the later.
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
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 Meanings and Examples of LATERAL
lateral
 a.  situated at or extending to the side
 a.  lying away from the median and sagittal plane of a body
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  There are small lateral columns of water outside which receive the force, and which transmit and multiply it in the manner which is familiar to you.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In IX. THE ADVENTURE OF THE ENGINEER’S THUMB
2  Saint-Simon, Owen, Fourier, are there also, in lateral galleries.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 7: CHAPTER I—MINES AND MINERS
3  A minute later we were both in a hansom, driving furiously for the Brixton Road.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER III. THE LAURISTON GARDEN MYSTERY
4  But I will come to the dream later.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter I
5  Three nights later old Major died peacefully in his sleep.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
6  A minute later all five of them were in full flight down the cart-track that led to the main road, with the animals pursuing them in triumph.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
7  Breakfast was an hour later than usual, and after breakfast there was a ceremony which was observed every week without fail.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter III
8  Three days later Mollie disappeared.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter V
9  Every human being held it as an article of faith that the farm would go bankrupt sooner or later, and, above all, that the windmill would be a failure.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
10  And when, some days afterwards, it was announced that from now on the pigs would get up an hour later in the mornings than the other animals, no complaint was made about that either.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
11  Four days later, in the late afternoon, Napoleon ordered all the animals to assemble in the yard.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
12  Two days later the animals were called together for a special meeting in the barn.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
13  Three days later there was a terrible hullabaloo.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
14  It was a few days later than this that the pigs came upon a case of whisky in the cellars of the farmhouse.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
15  But a few days later Muriel, reading over the Seven Commandments to herself, noticed that there was yet another of them which the animals had remembered wrong.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
Example Sentence: (169 in 12 pages)
1  In order to get good plant growth, the gardener must pinch off all lateral shoots.
2  McKinnon estimated the lateral movement of the bridge to be between four and six inches.
3  The gossip about her later proved to be entirely false.
4  Don't go off at half cock and accept any offer you'll regret later.
5  Actually, it would be much more sensible to do it later.
6  Two weeks later the moth will emerge in its adult form.
7  He was a slave ten years ago and was ransomed later by an old rich woman.
8  The initial talks were the base of the later agreement.
9  I might go along to the party later.
10  I caught him a lap later, and although I could pass him I could not shake him off.
11  We expect to announce details of the scheme later this week.
12  Humans experience a delayed maturity; we arrive at all stages of life later than other mammals.
13  The rumours of an attack were later confirmed.
14  I'll see you in the bar later.
15  The initial talks were the base of the later.