Sample Sentences for
horizontal
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    A stainless-steel door, with a wide horizontal handle.†  (source)
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    The word shaker and the young man climbed up to the horizontal trunk.†  (source)
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    The raft sprang from the roof and wrapped around the plane's horizontal stabilizer.†  (source)
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    The surface was covered with horizontal strips of wood separated by gaps.†  (source)
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    "They have a long, flattened tail—the tail lies horizontally on the water," Charlie told me.†  (source)
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    He talked to her endlessly about his love of horizontals: how they, the great levels of sky and land in Lincolnshire, meant to him the eternality of the will, just as the bowed Norman arches of the church, repeating themselves, meant the dogged leaping forward of the persistent human soul, on and on, nobody knows where; in contradiction to the perpendicular lines and to the Gothic arch, which, he said, leapt up at heaven and touched the ecstasy and lost itself in the divine.†  (source)
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    That horizontal line at the limit of sight?†  (source)
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    THERE WAS AN UNUSUALLY hot day that spring, and Luke and I spent it hauling purlins—the iron beams that run horizontally along the length of a roof.†  (source)
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    Settembrini says we live horizontally—we're the horizontals, he says, it's another one of his rotten jokes.†  (source)
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    And the lovely hollows, the horizontal flow of emptiness within the ice.†  (source)
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    It looked the same as it had back then, branches low and thick, stretching horizontally along the ground with Spanish moss draped over the limbs like a veil.†  (source)
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    Now and then Hans Castorp would exchange a word or two with him, though discreetly, out of consideration for other "horizontals."†  (source)
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    It flowed bitterly endless before them, beckoning beneath its horizontal collapse of skyline.†  (source)
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