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  • The word shaker and the young man climbed up to the horizontal trunk.†  (source)
    horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
  • The surface was covered with horizontal strips of wood separated by gaps.†  (source)
  • A stainless-steel door, with a wide horizontal handle.†  (source)
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  • The raft sprang from the roof and wrapped around the plane's horizontal stabilizer.†  (source)
    horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
  • 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)
    horizontally = in a manner that is in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
  • 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)
  • That horizontal line at the limit of sight?†  (source)
    horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
  • "They have a long, flattened tail—the tail lies horizontally on the water," Charlie told me.†  (source)
    horizontally = in a manner that is in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
  • Now and then Hans Castorp would exchange a word or two with him, though discreetly, out of consideration for other "horizontals."†  (source)
  • In the winters they wore knitted vests, with horizontal stripes.†  (source)
    horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
  • 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)
    horizontally = in a manner that is in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
  • Settembrini says we live horizontally—we're the horizontals, he says, it's another one of his rotten jokes.†  (source)
  • By the time the snow melted and the rains of spring swept in, every boy in Kabul bore telltale horizontal gashes on his fingers from a whole winter of fighting kites.†  (source)
    horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
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