dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

vertical
in a sentence

show 189 more with this conextual meaning
  • The vertical ice walls were as crumbly as a bucket of ice-cubes half-thawed, then refrozen.†   (source)
  • The snow was so deep that residents had dug vertical tunnels to get in and out of their homes.†   (source)
  • I would arrange them for display in a vertical line, a square, a diagonal line, any kind of configuration to help me feel like they were a picture of love.†   (source)
  • The tail looked much larger when he got next to it, with a major part of the vertical stabilizer showing and perhaps half of the elevators.†   (source)
  • He got to the ladder, and noticed that the vertical surface behind it was also carpeted.†   (source)
  • She's wet-lipped, open-mouthed, big-eyed, in the grip of two creatures with three-fingered claws and eyes with vertical pupils.†   (source)
  • Considering how briefly he remained vertical, Edgar gleaned an admirable amount of information about the situation: there was Essay and Baboo and Tinder, hackles raised, fixated on something across the room; there was Henry Lamb, the object of their attention, wrapped in a threadbare checkered bathrobe, standing puffy-faced and startled in his bedroom doorway; and beyond the living room window there was a perfectly nice summer morning pouring itself into the yard.†   (source)
  • But in the picture, the numbers arranged themselves vertically to fit along the curve of the tree trunk, allowing the white numbers to show up against the dark coloring of the dead tree like a crawling snake.†   (source)
  • To get fresh water we had to now walk to the river, over a thousand vertical feet down and several miles.†   (source)
  • He wears a jacket and trousers with blue and white vertical stripes, with a green triangle on his chest.†   (source)
  • The floor, consisting of narrow planks of treated wood, was flat and the vertical sides of the buoyancy tanks were at right angles to it.†   (source)
  • It had cut through several nerves and tendons and shattered against a bone, fracturing it vertically.†   (source)
  • She picked up ten pebbles and arranged them vertically, in three columns.†   (source)
  • Here, the glistening Rose Line took a ninety-degree vertical turn and continued directly up the face of the obelisk itself, ascending thirty-three feet to the very tip of the pyramidical apex, where it finally ceased.†   (source)
  • The small intestine of an average adult, if stretched out vertically, would measure about how long?†   (source)
  • The vertical row of connecting rods, so many they seemed to reach the sky far above, slid toward their corresponding holes on the left wall, ready to seal shut until the morning.†   (source)
  • The smoke stood vertically in the still air.†   (source)
  • Indeed, they looked less like plants than thick, black, giant slugs, protruding vertically out of the soil.†   (source)
  • The bell is suspended and the wire remains taut, running vertically through the hole he has drilled in the wall.†   (source)
  • But countless abuses had stretched the vertical fibers apart and weakened the horizontal ones beyond use.†   (source)
  • This other building, also made of concrete, was a vaultlike cube with vertical slits for windows—the Chatham County Jail.†   (source)
  • They began to work on the vertical stroke, moving along, between the strawberries, the boy advancing, the man retreating, the two of them together in it.†   (source)
  • In each of them was a vertical line of light, but it was a dim, eerie light, not the warm light of stairways in cities at home.†   (source)
  • The utility building, 3B-East, was a tragic block of cement with narrow vertical slits for windows.†   (source)
  • Thousands upon thousands of trees in the red glow of sundown, perfectly shaped and perfectly aligned, vertically and horizontally, like squares in a million-square grid.†   (source)
  • And in Conway's Soldiers you have a chessboard that continues infinitely in all directions and every square below a horizontal line has a colored tile on it like this.... And you can move a colored tile only if it can jump over a colored tile horizontally or vertically (but not diagonally) into an empty square 2 squares away.†   (source)
  • Only his ribs, thumb-thick vertical timbers, held him up.†   (source)
  • She is especially interested in vertical food conglomerates, and may go to work for General Foods.†   (source)
  • You and the board begin to drop down the vertical face of the wave.†   (source)
  • It was gargantuan, a vertical city of shimmering, crystalline towers and bridges, chambers and turrets, domed ballrooms and long, endless hallways.†   (source)
  • He made a row of bold vertical stripes topped with thin loops, like bars and razor wire.†   (source)
  • It's quite a storm," Noah said as he watched the drops flow in vertical streams on the windows.†   (source)
  • In perfectly straight vertical rows I see Chinese characters written in blue fountain-pen ink.†   (source)
  • The room appeared to be in the process of being disassembled: Two long tables had been folded up and leaned vertically against one wall; several empty wooden crates were stacked against the other.†   (source)
  • A vertical line had been drawn down the blackboard.†   (source)
  • Set into the bottom of the vertical tail fin was a rectangular hatch, about six feet off the ground.†   (source)
  • He sprays a third, vertical line on my mother's door, cutting the X in half.†   (source)
  • And when you're a —you know—vertically challenged satyr like me, you get in good shape, you carry a big stick, and you don't take nothing from no one!†   (source)
  • Two vertical lines for the trunk.†   (source)
  • It was changing its shape in a complicated way, thinning at the base as a vertical column rose five or six feet.†   (source)
  • The writing is indecipherable, not because Margo's handwriting is bad, but because on top of the horizontal lines of text, writing also goes vertically down the page.†   (source)
  • The small boy squatted in front of Ralph, looking up brightly and vertically.†   (source)
  • In a cascade of grit, my hand on some not-quite-vertical surface, I stood, wincing at the pain in my head.†   (source)
  • A vertical line has an undefined slope.†   (source)
  • Two doors down, a vertical tube connects our row of apartments to the tunnels.†   (source)
  • Near-vertical sides rose out of the ground like a jagged piece of the earth's bone.†   (source)
  • Her Imperial Viciousness had promised that the Five Spires of Redd would be the tallest structure ever erected in the universe-a vertical column of steel sheathed in spiked and mottled crystal, rising magnificently into the sky and topped with five pointed spires like the fingers and thumb of the queen herself.†   (source)
  • When it was constructed in 1970, the tramway had the steepest vertical lift in North America, with a cable length of almost four miles.†   (source)
  • He wore traditional cotton clothes with intricate designs on the collar made of yellow and brown thread, zigzagged vertically across his chest.†   (source)
  • Her skin was flawless except for three vertical scratches on her forehead so fine and thin they seemed at first like hair, baby hair before it bloomed and roped into the masses of black yarn under her hat.†   (source)
  • It is ns if the river becomes a vertical torrent each afternoon, a waterfall which the ship must climb if we are to go on.†   (source)
  • "All vertical lines," Kvothe said, looking intently at the page.†   (source)
  • The parking lot in front was empty, the vertical blinds in all the windows drawn.†   (source)
  • The river meanwhile does separate the land on a horizontal axis but connects along a vertical axis, making it possible for people at one end to travel to the other.†   (source)
  • The rat could go from running horizontally on the ground, to running vertically up a wall, then upside-down across a rope, all within a matter of seconds.†   (source)
  • Our torches were nearly out, and I had to hold mine up so that I could read Rayvenwoode Manor carved into the vertical planks.†   (source)
  • Visitors also encountered the latest and arguably most important organizational invention of the century, the vertical file, created by Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal System.†   (source)
  • Aristotle thought that a projectile hurled obliquely into the air would first describe a gentle curve and then fall vertically to the earth.†   (source)
  • He drew out a rectangular object hidden among the clothes: a wooden-framed photograph with a long vertical crack along the glass.†   (source)
  • Ten vertically segmented columns were used to quantify the exposure level.†   (source)
  • Her poon's orbital plane is nearly vertical, it almost grinds on the twinkly suburban macadam on the forward limb of each orbit.†   (source)
  • Every time the clock chimed he made a mark on his arm , four vertical marks and then a diagonal slash to seal the quintet.†   (source)
  • All the lines of his body were vertical and swept upward, from his sharp aquiline nose and pointed eyebrows to his high forehead, which was crowned with a lion's mane of hair that he combed straight back.†   (source)
  • One of our tests was called slide for life, a thick eighty-foot nylon rope attached to a tower and looped down to a vertical pole about ten feet high.†   (source)
  • Their combined vertical jump came to less than a foot.†   (source)
  • Söderberget's summit was an almost vertical cliff facing the water.†   (source)
  • I overtilt from the vertical position and my feet touch the wall.†   (source)
  • They were playing a soft cover-two defense and letting our receivers get a clean release off the line of scrimmage without bumping them too much, so we were able to take advantage of our "vertical" passing attack by completing deep passes downfield, or in the football vernacular "over the top" of the defense.†   (source)
  • Later he turned him over to Nigromanta, who took him to her well-used room when she was free and put down his account with vertical marks behind the door in the few spaces left free by Aureliano's debts.†   (source)
  • Paul touched his forehead with his rapier blade held vertical.†   (source)
  • FALL FROM GRACE ON THIS
    ONE-HUNDRED-FOOT VERTICAL DROP.†   (source)
  • She wears a high-necked white blouse with vertical pleats, a dark paisley scarf, and a plain gray skirt.†   (source)
  • My father, Homer Hickam, was the mine superintendent, and our house was situated just a few hundred yards from the mine's entrance, a vertical shaft eight hundred feet deep.†   (source)
  • She had large blue eyes in a pale face that might have been forty or twenty-five, and whenever something was not to her liking a thin vertical line formed across her forehead, just between her eyes.†   (source)
  • Of course we'd have to find a vertical space," he said absently.†   (source)
  • The fence has vertical black bars with pointed ends that bend outward, as if to skewer anyone who might try to climb over it.†   (source)
  • Then the table went vertical again, off came the clamp and suddenly they were free.†   (source)
  • It is a vertically integrated company that breeds, slaughters, and processes chicken.†   (source)
  • Displaying impressive courage and skill, he fought through five hours of treacherous river currents and vertical ascents.†   (source)
  • Behind the house, the mountain lurches skyward above a vertical rock wall.†   (source)
  • It's so easy to fly, and I rise over evergreen spires, granite cathedrals, slip into the troposphere, surf vertical winds, still seeking ....Voices.†   (source)
  • Cunningham's dictated a vertical slice through the front of the uterus and then the operator was to gently pry the uterus open.†   (source)
  • There, running vertically down the side of her palm, was her phone number written in neat block letters in dark blue pen.†   (source)
  • So I just tapped on the window over the kitchen sink, making him jump about four feet vertically and shriek like a schoolgirl, which made having to forge through the dark and navigate around the pricker bushes in the backyard at least worthwhile.†   (source)
  • He takes out his ruler and confidently draws two vertical lines, noting points for asymptotes, limits, and intercepts.†   (source)
  • Vertical now, released by the wind, I fall faster.†   (source)
  • The destruction of Dresden was represented by a vertical band of orange cross-hatching, and all the lines that were still alive passed through it, came out the other side.†   (source)
  • In addition to this, several physical improvements were made to the space where the execution would occur: vertical blinds in the witness area, a dimmer switch in the chamber, a tinted one-way mirror, air-conditioning and an emergency generator, a wireless microphone and amplifier into the viewing area, a mono plug phone jack.†   (source)
  • As we sat down on a bench, my eye caught sight of another American flag, this one hanging from a vertical pole in the lobby.†   (source)
  • There were so many roots and vines and creepers growing over the stone, and so much soil and old birds' nests had made a home for every drifting seed, that it was more like a vertical meadow, with flowers everywhere.†   (source)
  • But this version of the Gothic masterpiece had been stretched, its verticality exaggerated beyond that of the original so that its tallest spires rose to unfathomable heights.†   (source)
  • For him it is strenuous to climb a steep hill, because he has to keep pushing his own vertical mass upward and cannot gain any momentum.†   (source)
  • We flew right for the sign and, at the very, very last second, screamed into a direct vertical climb.†   (source)
  • He looks, really looks, this time at the thin, vertical scar that extends up the inside of the arm, above the palm.†   (source)
  • She tapped her fingers against the chicken stick when he shot the car into a vertical rise, skimmed daringly—and illegally—over the top of a small jam of cars.†   (source)
  • Tom launched himself vertically and spun into a full roundhouse kick, screaming despite his better judgment.†   (source)
  • Franklin Sousley: Hilltop, Kentucky The mountains are high and steep in eastern Kentucky, blue-shadowed and cut by nearly vertical hollows and plunging river gorges.†   (source)
  • Flashy bloodred with black pinstriping running horizontally— Aires typically lost me at this point, but he would still continue talking even though my eyes glazed over—three functional, vertical front, slanting louvers on the sides of the front fenders; a blacked-out, horizontal-bars grille and different rocker panel moldings.†   (source)
  • He fell eight hundred vertical feet, until he managed to jam the tip of his ice axe into the snow and stop himself with his one working arm.†   (source)
  • Badillo showed us blasting airs, in which he skated up and down steeper and steeper ramps and finally up a vertical wall, to give him the momentum to go airborne, to fly across a wide gap in the wall.†   (source)
  • Huge steps, almost vertical, hanging on to roots and branches.†   (source)
  • It was moving in short vertical strokes, as if in emphasis ...as if the man holding it were speaking emphatically to another.†   (source)
  • On impulse, she shifted her camera for a vertical shot.†   (source)
  • The final six hundred feet of the ascent were vertical, forcing would-be visitors to dismount their mules and make a choice.†   (source)
  • In Bombay they sprawl on pavements; in Great New York they pack them vertically—not sure anyone sleeps.†   (source)
  • Felicia first notices her second husband-to-be when he pedals by her furiously on a clunky Russian bicycle, his hair vertical as a sail.†   (source)
  • Deo cried, gazing up at it, his eyes fixed on a great vertical crack that some sort of artillery had made in a concrete wall.†   (source)
  • We didn't have time to dwell on how a false step could send you sliding down a near-vertical face.†   (source)
  • The crack is relatively straight, so even without a runner the rope will follow a vertical line.†   (source)
  • The empty structures were vertical rubble; they had been eaten, not by time, but by men: boards torn out at random, missing patches of roofs, holes left in gutted cellars.†   (source)
  • Instead of vertical bars on the lattice window, an intricately carvedwooden screen covered the opening.†   (source)
  • None of them made up words, whether you read the letters horizontally, vertically, or even diagonally.†   (source)
  • Two horizontal to drive and one vertical to go up and down.†   (source)
  • JAN. 28—The initial findings in the probe of the Jan. 22 crash of an American Airlines Convair point to a sharp, almost vertical drop of the plane.†   (source)
  • Just beyond the far pier and curving away inland was the defensive wall I'd glimpsed earlier, logs set vertically and cut into sharp points.†   (source)
  • Wulfgar held the drow's feet to help him inch down the final descent, as the slope became nearly vertical.†   (source)
  • My passion for the vertical world took me from tall trees in my backyard to climbing steep cliffs and crags.†   (source)
  • The cemetery included a few elaborate crypts and low-walled family garden plots, but there were no granite forests of vertical monuments and headstones.†   (source)
  • It can be studied quantitatively or qualitatively—or, as my father once put it, horizontally or vertically.†   (source)
  • I remember its hand, definitely Lelia's, considerable, vertical, architectural, but gone awry in parts, scrawling and windbent, in unschemed colors of ink and graphite and Crayola.†   (source)
  • Sanskrit was governed by verticals, but its sharp grid features were not possible in Ceylon.†   (source)
  • Ralph lowered his legs; the jump seat popped right back vertical as though it had already forgotten him.†   (source)
  • Then she placed her hands, vertically, over her eyes and pressed the heels hard, as though to paralyze the optic nerve and drown all images into a voidlike black.†   (source)
  • I'd draw six vertical lines and intersect them with six horizontal lines, and then I'd fill in every other little square with my pen.†   (source)
  • On one side of the hill the land fell away sharply, almost vertically, and here was revealed the actual quarry, an enormous irregular crater strewn with boulders and lined with jagged rocks, its sides pitted with holes of varying size.†   (source)
  • I coasted off the road and pulled to within fifty feet of the godlike thing, so close that I had to throw back my head and raise my eyes to vertical to see its branches.†   (source)
  • Would then proceed at a KCUF record hop to look out again across the gleaming gym floor and there in one of the giant keyholes inscribed for basketball see, groping her vertical backstroke a little awkward opposite any boy heels might make her an inch taller than, a Sharon, Linda or Michele, seventeen and what is known as a hip one, whose velveted eyes ultimately, statistically would meet Mucho's and respond, and the thing would develop then groovy as it could when you found you couldn't get statutory rape really out of the back of your law-abiding head.†   (source)
  • The lethargic mechanic sprang to life and, in mere moments, so it seemed to me, my mountain of supplies was on the ice, the canoe had been cut loose, and the landing-gear cylinder had once again been pumped back to the vertical.†   (source)
  • One afternoon a violent wind caught them in the open boat, the sleet blown vertically across the mountain sides.†   (source)
  • My noise problem therein the crater, as you call it—seems to be mainly vertical.†   (source)
  • As for the book, the pages were cluttered with underlining, and along the margin at one point there was a wild, vertical bar in bright red ink.†   (source)
  • They had taken a long time to reach it, falling steadily on a great platform that moved like a piston in a vertical cylinder of unknown length.†   (source)
  • Under the rail are a few vertical slats, as if in a fence.†   (source)
  • She got up and followed him, a deep vertical pit appearing suddenly in the center of her forehead, just under the red bangs.†   (source)
  • The bodies separate and there's a door to a vertical pneumatique.†   (source)
  • Arnold pointed to the vertical glass see-through map of the park.†   (source)
    vertical = straight up and down
  • He scrambled up to face a vertical rolling door of corrugated steel; it was locked.†   (source)
  • Reaching back, he felt the railing, started scrambling down the almost vertical steps.†   (source)
  • There was a vertical glass see-through map of the park, and facing it a bank of glowing computer consoles.†   (source)
  • The stegosaurus was twenty feet long, with a huge bulky body and vertical armor plates along its back.†   (source)
  • Stumbling over tree roots in the darkness, clawing his way past dripping branches, he saw the Jeep ahead, and the lights shining around the vertical wall of the barrier made him feel better.†   (source)
  • Like...little person, or vertically challenged, or—†   (source)
  • Looming in the doorway was a Cyclops so huge he made Tyson look vertically challenged.†   (source)
  • His puffy tunic was vertically striped in brilliant blue and gold.†   (source)
  • He stopped when he felt a vertical ridge embedded in the bark.†   (source)
  • The vertical pillars and triangular pronaus all but obscured the circular dome behind it.†   (source)
  • Clary saw, with a jolt of surprise, that they had vertical slit pupils, like a cat's.†   (source)
  • Not a lot of floor space, but still lots of vertical area.†   (source)
  • King Wen put down the rectangular trunk and stood it up vertically.†   (source)
  • Above, the prow soared with authority toward the summit ridge, a vertical half mile above.†   (source)
  • A vertical groove ran down the face of the wall, different from the rest.†   (source)
  • The wind blew so hard the rain drops appeared to be flowing almost horizontal instead of vertical.†   (source)
  • "The Elder Wand," he said, and drew a straight vertical line upon the parchment.†   (source)
  • There were two vertical, metallic rods on either side of Laila's shoulders.†   (source)
  • By the way, I have an idea of how we could get Chuck's car down from that vertical parking garage.†   (source)
  • A sculpture of vertical folds incised by a tapering spiral.†   (source)
  • I drew another vertical line, and on one side I wrote, "Je t'aime.†   (source)
  • A deep crack stretched its vertical shadow upward into the cliff ahead of them.†   (source)
  • The worn path led across the wide ledge to doors carved into the vertical slab of stone.†   (source)
  • My palm caught hold of the bin's side wall, which was now nearly vertical.†   (source)
  • His pale eyes were deeply shadowed, and a thin vertical crease showed between his eyebrows.†   (source)
  • The bat was the child's shadow, shrunk by the vertical sun to a patch between the hurrying feet.†   (source)
  • Forward, the submarine's nearly vertical angle in the water eased.†   (source)
  • Heavyset Mafoday, whose vertical jump was perhaps three inches, dove and made the stop.†   (source)
  • The wall beside me was covered in long vertical blinds; over my head, the glaring lights blinded me.†   (source)
  • Then, with computer precision, the claw grasped the heavy handle and hoisted the crate vertically.†   (source)
  • His eyes were set far apart, with luminous red irises and vertical slits for pupils.†   (source)
  • A vertical line is anything divided by zero, and that's an undefined number.†   (source)
  • She suddenly hit what felt like a vertical pole.†   (source)
  • Their eyes had vertical slits, like the eyes of cats or snakes.†   (source)
  • I am going to build a vertically revolving wheel 250' in dia.†   (source)
  • Try spotting a trumpet fish floating vertically in seagrass.†   (source)
  • The slope of a vertical line is undefined.†   (source)
  • The sun had swung over the vertical and the afternoon heat was closing in on the island.†   (source)
  • That would begin immediately above, where the hanging glacier gives way to vertical rock.†   (source)
  • Escarpment, a vertical fortification, or else a steep cliff-face.†   (source)
  • She dreamed of pebbles, eleven of them, arranged vertically.†   (source)
  • Three vertical white lines were painted on his chin, beneath his lips.†   (source)
  • Vertical creases appear between his eyes; he looks like someone trying to remember something vital.†   (source)
  • It was like a small broomstick sitting vertically in the water, about a mile away.†   (source)
  • "I'm not going to call myself the god of vertically challenged people," Bes grumbled.†   (source)
  • The Resurrection Stone had cracked down the vertical line representing the Elder Wand.†   (source)
  • It was a vertical line with an inverted peak stretching upward from its middle.†   (source)
  • It was about eight inches tall and standing vertically.†   (source)
  • Now the Alfa was climbing almost vertically at thirty miles per hour.†   (source)
  • It was a circle with a vertical line through the middle that extended beyond the circumference.†   (source)
  • So she thinks the key to making a vertical line is just making the y axis coordinate large enough.†   (source)
  • We Get a Vertically Challenged Tour of Russia.†   (source)
  • Vertical, they looked like two translucent blue sails.†   (source)
▲ show less (of above)