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How to use horizontally in a sentence

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When the axis is tilted up or forward, the track of the ball is rotating more horizontally than perpendicularly to the lane.
As the rain bucketed down, driven horizontally by a southeast gale, he decided the walk would go ahead.
The rain was actually driving horizontally with these incredibly dark skies and no visibility.
Just as camera lenses focus light, acoustic lenses reshape sound, spreading it horizontally to increase the sensation of space.
Plain material, often paper, is usually applied horizontally and used under wallcoverings to assure a smoother surface and better adhesion.
Underground mining entails sinking shafts to reach the target resource and driving tunnels and adits, either inclined or horizontally.
Pits that run horizontally into a hill slope or cliff following material into the slope are known as adits or drift mines.
Airplanes turn while remaining aloft primarily by controlling the positions of ailerons mounted on horizontally oriented wings.
On a recumbent bike, you've got a nice comfy seat with back support, and you're pushing horizontally.
For example, ground birds can usually only walk horizontally on the ground whereas woodpeckers climb up and down vertically on tree trunks.
Three-inch, dark red-maroon redworms have yellowish undersides and work their way through the top 6-12 inches of soil horizontally.
Split each pitta in half horizontally, and spread each with one level tablespoon of passata.
The flag should never be carried flat or horizontally, but always aloft and free.
The rhomboids, deep muscles that run horizontally between your shoulder blades, help stabilize them by keeping them down and together.
The carpenters applied additional laths horizontally and vertically to ensure the structure's rigidity.
True flyers can thus move horizontally or even ascend at a steady speed, unlike gliders and parachutists.
With the head erect, the macula in each utricle is oriented horizontally, and in the saccule vertically.
Those original Sally Lunns were baked as large buns, split horizontally and slathered with thick clotted cream.
The six subequal tepals are arranged in two whorls and horizontally spread.
As soon as her body lay horizontally, spiders and insects and worms came scuttering forward, and began to eat her skin.
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Examples from Classical Literature
Bar, in heraldry, an ordinary resembling the fesse, stretching like it horizontally across the shield but narrower.
The long gargoyles projecting horizontally on either side of the roof, and the floriated cross on the apex, are worth notice.
First, he laid out a series of about thirty squares horizontally across a sheet of graph paper.
A large upright post is placed on a gudgeon, with shafts extending horizontally 15 or 20 feet.
The hard palate extends horizontally from the gums backward, and is continued as the soft palate.
But what is there to prevent those doors to be fitted so as to move upwards, or horizontally, or slantwise?
There are two paladins who can be cut in half, one horizontally and other perpendicularly.
Imagine the solid to extend miles horizontally and miles down, and imagine this spherule to vibrate up and down.
The favorite colors are dark blue, brownish purple, or Indian red, horizontally banded with narrow black stripes.
The stratus, from its spreading out horizontally in a continuous layer, and increasing from below.
Running horizontally across the middle of the floor are the striae acusticae which are continued into the auditory nerve.
The single line defines a strike-slip fault along which plates are sliding horizontally past one another.
We tried what result would ensue upon slitting the intumescence of the petiole horizontally.
The backs are half inch stuff, tongued and grooved and put in horizontally.
For variety's sake the engineer made it undulate horizontally, like a great serpent flying over the earth.
As the animal grows older, the spots run into stripes, and it becomes as clearly banded horizontally as the viverrid.
She stepped to the oval window, touched a latch, and swung the pane horizontally upon two pivots.
One of his most sensational feats was for his assistant to hold a playing card, the three of hearts, horizontally.
In the case of the raia the body is flattened horizontally, while in the Pleuronectid they are compressed laterally.
A long, Black Stream of carriages poured down the avenue, intersected here and there by other streams, tending horizontally.
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