Sample Sentences for
vertical
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    Donatelli adjusted the vertical measure and fingered the sliding weights.  (source)
    vertical = straight up and down
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    On a small ladder, a good-looking sandy-haired boy is painting a vertical sign that will say: "Doc's."  (source)
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    What's your vertical leap?  (source)
    vertical = oriented straight up and down
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    Arnold pressed a button on his console, and the vertical glass map lit up with a patter.†  (source)
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    I had an impression that we were dropping vertically.  (source)
    vertically = with an orientation that is straight up and down (90 degrees relative to the floor)
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    Sanskrit was governed by verticals, but its sharp grid features were not possible in Ceylon.†  (source)
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    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)
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    He got to the ladder, and noticed that the vertical surface behind it was also carpeted.†  (source)
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    The ship rose again, vertically, coasting up a wall of water.†  (source)
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    The verticals in the letter N could be drug dealers guarding a long diagonal stash of glassine product or they could be schoolgirls on a playground slide or a couple of sandlot ballplayers with a bat angled between them.†  (source)
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    Henchard watched him with his mouth firmly set, the squareness of his jaw and the verticality of his profile being unduly marked.†  (source)
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    My palm caught hold of the bin's side wall, which was now nearly vertical.†  (source)
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    The small intestine of an average adult, if stretched out vertically, would measure about how long?†  (source)
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