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Example sentences for "vertically"

Lexicographically close words:
vertebrates; vertere; vertew; vertex; vertical; verticals; vertice; vertices; verticil; verticillate
  1. The pockets were placed vertically in the front of the thigh, and were frequently of a decorative character.

  2. The columns ran across the width of the sheet, the rolled ends of which were held vertically in the respective hands.

  3. The ink-written rolls of papyrus were placed vertically in a cylindrical box called capsula.

  4. A bullet thrown or shot in any direction falls just as much as if merely dropped; but instead of falling from the starting-point it drops vertically from the line of fire.

  5. You can whirl a bucket full of water vertically round without spilling it.

  6. The waves are a great planing machine attacking the land, and the tides raise and lower this planing machine, so that its denuding tooth is applied, now twenty feet vertically above mean level, now twenty feet below.

  7. Yes, on the horizon she could discern a thin black line, rising vertically from the plain of ice.

  8. The tight French hose was also of blue satin, vertically slashed with rose.

  9. The beak is vertically thicker, and perhaps a little broader, in proportion to that of the rock-pigeon.

  10. Feathers divergent along the front of the neck and breast; beak very short, vertically rather thick; oesophagus somewhat enlarged.

  11. In the instrument shown, the two tubes, formed of copper in the lower part, are united into one for strength, and the mouths of the tubes open vertically and horizontally.

  12. When a liquid issues vertically from a small orifice, it forms a jet which rises nearly to the level of the free surface of the liquid in the vessel from which it flows.

  13. An incision commencing a little way above Poupart's ligament, is to be carried vertically over the hernia, parallel with, but to the inner side of its median line.

  14. If the head be thrown backwards the nasal and oral cavities will look almost vertically towards the pharyngeal pouch.

  15. The objects around Etna appear near to us and raised vertically from the horizon for the same reason that a stick plunged in water appears bent.

  16. Barker introduced the method, which he deemed to be less hazardous, of holding the fragments close together by means of a strong silver wire passed round them vertically by a large needle without actually laying open the joint.

  17. These are arranged vertically over one another, and except in the case of the upper and lower ones at the front of the boiler, each connects the upper end of one tube with the lower end of the next tube of the element.

  18. In caƱons like this, their walls rising almost vertically from one thousand to fifteen hundred feet, few birds are to be seen.

  19. Suddenly he bent his head, partly folded his wings, and swept down almost vertically like an arrow, alighting safe somewhere among the pines.

  20. Again, in Spelerpes rubra, where almost vertically ascending articular processes above are repeated by almost vertically descending articular processes below.

  21. Raise the arm vertically to its full extent and describe horizontal circles.

  22. Extend the arm vertically above the head; carry it laterally downward to the side, and swing it several times between the vertical and downward positions.

  23. These Bull engines are placed either vertically or on an incline, as is most convenient for the workings.

  24. In working a scallop the stitches should slant vertically in the direct centre, slanting the other stitches toward this point (Figure 117).

  25. The stitch is taken vertically instead of horizontally, as in cat-stitch.

  26. An assemblage of members of wood or iron, supported at two points, and arranged to transmit pressure vertically to those points with the least possible strain, across the length of any member.

  27. Below the strip B is a thinner strip (D), vertically disposed, and about two-thirds its width.

  28. If the cone is cut off vertically on the dotted line, A, the curve is a hyperbola.

  29. Its general proportions are not unlike those of a common ox, but its horns are straight and rise vertically from the crown, diverging only slightly from one another.

  30. For a moment its strong broad wings agitated the air in their faces; but the next moment the bird made a sudden effort, and rose vertically upwards.

  31. The ten trunk contacts are multipled vertically through the line-switch banks, so that the same ten trunks are available to each of the twenty-five lines.

  32. Secondly, that the wings of the Palaeodictyoptera probably worked vertically only, and the two main wings were homologous with rudimentary wing-like outgrowths on each segment of the body.

  33. These subterranean dwellings are shafts sunk vertically in the earth, except where some stony obstruction compels the miner to deflect from a downward course.

  34. It presents secondary branches, some horizontal, through which the animal goes in search of roots for food, while others descend vertically to pits specially reserved for the disposal of ordure.

  35. The burrow possesses two openings: one, which the animal prefers to use, which sinks vertically into the soil; the other, the passage of exit with a gentle and very winding slope.

  36. Boughs vertically arranged are interlaced at the base with those of the floor.

  37. On pieces of white wove or vertically laid buff paper.

  38. As before, we find that a few stamps have been "split" and used for half their value, copies of the 2 cent and 6 cent having been cut vertically and doing unquestioned duty as 1 cent and 3 cent stamps respectively.

  39. I held the sheet vertically on the shelf, perhaps four inches from the plate.

  40. Summer and Ogle for their turnpike-road steam-carriage consisted of a series of tubes placed vertically over the furnace, through which the heated air passed before reaching the chimney.

  41. Many of them have a broad line of color, in geometrical combinations, running vertically up the middle.

  42. He seemed to be well-to-do, and had two houses built of slabs lashed vertically together.

  43. Remove the standards, drill and tap the bed-plate holes, and replace parts as before, taking care that the lubricating holes in the bearings point vertically upwards.


  44. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vertically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.