Sample Sentences foraltitude (editor-reviewed)
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The altitude gave her a headache.altitude = elevation (height above sea level)
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Their helicopter gained altitude, and then moved east, out over the ocean. (source)
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The pilot, spotting the camp, circled twice at a low altitude for a closer look. (source)altitude = height
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...the plane clawed for altitude, jerking and sliding on the wind currents as the pilot took off, (source)altitude = elevation (to rise higher)
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Instead they zigzagged back and forth, increasing their altitude by small increments every time they changed directions. (source)altitude = elevation (height)
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the great chest fin that rose high in the air to the altitude of the man. (source)altitude = height (elevation)
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The altitude gave Louie and the others pause. (source)altitude = elevation (height)
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There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs. The changing winds of various altitudes took the figure where they would. (source)altitudes = heights
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It had been designed to reach an altitude of five miles. (source)altitude = elevation (height)
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O'Hare had a little notebook with him, and printed in the back of it were postal rates and airline distances and the altitudes of famous mountains and other key facts about the world.† (source)
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"Tell me," Kate asked, "at what altitude does the Aurora sail?" (source)altitude = elevation (height above sea level)
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We do not know whether he suddenly became conscious of these things; but, giddy as he was, he understood that he had seen what he ought not to have seen, that he had just surprised the soul of his elder brother in one of its most secret altitudes, and that Claude must not be allowed to know it.† (source)
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I squinted and focused, all the time gaining altitude. (source)altitude = elevation (height)
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The bottom-going seamobiles move like tanks along these ways; minisubs hover or pass at various altitudes; slick-seeming swimmers in tight and colorful garb come and go, entering and departing the bubble or working about it.† (source)
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Deliberately, almost lazily, the bombers shed altitude.† (source)
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By the time I'm in Manchester, I expect clearance from the FAA to fly from Manchester to Huntsville, I don't care what altitudes they assign me, I'm perfectly comfortable with low-orbital.† (source)
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