A piece of oak bolted perpendicularly on the side of a vessel, to aid in drawing down and securing the clew of the mainsail.
They may be seen at times descending perpendicularlyfrom a great height, like hail--a sign of approaching rain.
On leaving the spot where a number had perched not far from their nests, he observed them shoot suddenly and perpendicularly into the air till they had got out of sight.
Nor would the danger be imaginary at the breaking up of a frost, or after violent rains, which might bring one of the highest rocks perpendicularly down without the intervention of a single crag to give warning and break its fall.
Wedging its head between the bark and the ground, it now stood still more perpendicularly upright on its breast, and, in this position, shoved and shouldered away, most desperately.
Behind the spot where they stood, the rock rose perpendicularly in a massy wall to a considerable height, and then branched out into overhanging crags.
The wall rose perpendicularly from the canal, and he had moored his little skiff to the only ring he could find at the base of it, some distance from the corner.
Nevertheless, we are probably justified in our conviction that perpendicularly visaged, they would on the whole outdo in sombreness land round about them, and so be evident as dusky patches against a brighter ground.
Before departing, Cyrus Harding leaned once more over the dark well, which descended perpendicularly to the level of the sea.
In one of these, called narthpimi, a flat slab of stone is supported horizontally on two other slabs fixed perpendicularly in the ground so as to form a narrow tunnel, through which a man can just manage to wriggle his body with difficulty.
These labyrinths are formed of a screen of split bamboos, passing perpendicularly out of the water, and leading into a larger baited chamber.
Near by a chain of eight massive locks brings the Rideau Canal down through a fissure in the high bank to the level of the lower Ottawa, its sides being almost perpendicularly cut by the action of water in past ages.
The promontory of York Minster is a black irregularly-shaped rocky cliff, eight hundred feet in height, rising almost perpendicularly from the sea.
Hinge rectilinear; with the back elevated into a semicone or half-pyramid, the cardinal sideperpendicularly plane.
A term applied to bivalve shells, when a line drawn down perpendicularly from the apex would divide the shell into two equal parts.
Thus a stone could never fall at the point selected or a point perpendicularly beneath it.
It was discovered by means of an instrument called the dipping needle, which is just a magnetised needle made for dipping perpendicularly instead of going round horizontally like the mariner's compass.
The particular part of the Greenland coast to which the giant went in his ramble is marked by tremendous cliffs descendingperpendicularly into the water.
Immediately afterwards a second machine drops out and falls perpendicularly to the ground, turning, turning, turning exactly as I did, but suddenly it recovers its balance.
At the moment he was perpendicularly above us we jumped quickly into our bomb-proof.
After a while my observer learned how to fly perpendicularly over the objects to be bombed and to make use of the right moment for laying his egg with the assistance of his aiming telescope.
The machine fellperpendicularly to earth from an altitude of nine thousand feet.
Presently, as the bells of Greux began to sound from afar, she listened to their chimes with rapture, wholly forgetful of the fact that the sun's rays beat down perpendicularly upon her head.
It is nearly noon, a noon consuming and mournful, which falls perpendicularly upon the red summits, and is burning to its deepest recesses the valley of stone.
The sun at this moment falls perpendicularly on their heads and strange headgear, details their everlasting smile, and then sheds itself on their shoulders and their naked torso, exaggerating their athletic muscles.
On every other side it is defended by the ocean, into which the town seems to have droptperpendicularly from the clouds.
It was erected in an indentation, at the very foot of the cliff, which rose above it perpendicularly a hundred meters high, perfectly white but looking gray in the night.
I came from Fecamp, following the coast, a high coast as straight as a wall, with its projecting chalk cliffs descending perpendicularly into the sea.
There goes the boat up, perpendicularly as it appears.
If one came perpendicularly upon her, it was easy to see what must happen.
Huyghens’ construction; measure of the ordinary and extraordinary indices of refraction; attractive and repulsive crystals; a ray falling perpendicularly does not always bifurcate in a camera with parallel faces, nor in a prism.
Action of the earth upon currents; it acts as a rectilinear current directed from east to west, perpendicularly to the magnetic meridian.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perpendicularly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: plumb; sheer; square; upright
