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Example sentences for "horizontal direction"

  • At the top, in a horizontal direction, the stature is given in centimetres, while in the vertical column the weight is given in kilograms.

  • The subject must place himself with his arms outstretched in a horizontal direction and on a level with his shoulders.

  • Port-fires, or lances, are tied to each of the hoops, in a horizontal direction, with their mouths outwards.

  • The fougette, or Indian rocket, resembles in shape a sky-rocket, whose flight is gradually brought to run along a horizontal direction.

  • After they are brushed in the machine, the goods are singed by passing their cut surface over a cylinder of iron, laid in a horizontal direction, and kept red hot by a flue.

  • A decided upward trend of air is often encountered by those who are experimenting with kites, the kite often mounting higher than can be accounted for on the hypothesis that the wind is moving in a horizontal direction.

  • B] In the Tynedale and Craven faults, in the north of England, the vertical displacement is still greater, and has extended in a horizontal direction for a distance of thirty miles or more.

  • Gravity impels downwards towards the centre of the earth; and the spring in this figure runs in an horizontal direction.

  • He pre-supposes that the club is moving in a horizontal direction at the moment it hits the ball.

  • In a vast majority of instances, probably in about ninety per cent of cases, the club is not moving in a horizontal direction--in fact, it would be hardly too much to say that it never moves in a horizontal direction.

  • In the Tynedale and Craven faults, in the north of England, the vertical displacement is still greater, and the fracture has extended in a horizontal direction for a distance of thirty miles or more.

  • The burrows of the "leopard" have much smaller entrances than those of their "tawny kin," and run down perpendicularly to a greater depth before branching off in a horizontal direction.

  • Its trunk was full twenty feet in diameter, rising to more than that height without a branch, and then spreading off into numerous limbs that stretched far out in a horizontal direction.

  • He is stoutly built, however, and would measure better in a horizontal direction.

  • Scarcely was the balloon let off, when it gently rose a short distance, and then flew in a horizontal direction towards a palace in the neighbourhood.

  • I was stationary, or rather moved only in a horizontal direction.

  • They then stretch out long massive arms in a horizontal direction; and as the separate twigs and leaves also extend horizontally, each branch thus presents a surface as level as a table.

  • It was just before their eyes, whenever they looked in a horizontal direction; and occasionally, when tired with watching the monotonous movements of the elephant, one or other of them did look horizontally.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horizontal direction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    consisted only; cross road; curious feeling; curly hair; gilt tops; good piece; horizontal axis; horizontal beds; horizontal branch; horizontal direction; horizontal line; horizontal lines; horizontal plane; horizontal section; horizontal strata; hospital gangrene; iron hand; large house; make merry; regular course; rnberg stove; sometimes found; tablespoonful flour; things will; will praise; would prove