vertical

in a sentence

What's your vertical leap?  (source) Carl Deuker, Gym Candy, 2007

At 20,500 feet, the altitude was deemed too high for safe evacuation by helicopter ... so he would have to be carried 3,000 vertical feet to Base Camp down the Khumbu Icefall,  (source) Jon Krakauer, Into Thin Air, 1997

I turned once more, saw the rooftops of Stoneygate, dark lines of coal smoke rising vertically from them.  (source) David Almond, Kit's Wilderness, 1999

On a small ladder, a good-looking sandy-haired boy is painting a vertical sign that will say: "Doc's."  (source) Arthur Laurents and Stephen Sondheim, Westside Story, 1957

I had an impression that we were dropping vertically.  (source) Jules Verne, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, 1877

Sanskrit was governed by verticals, but its sharp grid features were not possible in Ceylon.†  (source) Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family, 1982

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) Henry H. Neff, The Fiend And The Forge, 2010

Donatelli adjusted the vertical measure and fingered the sliding weights.  (source) Robert Lipsyte, The Contender, 1967

King Wen put down the rectangular trunk and stood it up vertically.†  (source) Cixin Liu, The Three-Body Problem, 2008

lip to here he's always had something he could climb or scramble up or dodge around in case of a flank attack, but now comes an open space with no shelter and few verticals.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, 2003

Henchard watched him with his mouth firmly set, the squareness of his jaw and the verticality of his profile being unduly marked.†  (source) Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886

Arnold pressed a button on his console, and the vertical glass map lit up with a patter.†  (source) Michael Crichton, Jurassic Park, 1993

The smoke stood vertically in the still air.†  (source) Cormac McCarthy, The Road, 2006