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Definition
in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base- Paintings in which horizontal lines dominate, tend to be relaxing.
horizontal = in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base
- The whole thing goes horizontally, too, at least it seems so, and I exhaust myself in trying to distinguish the order of its going in that direction.Charlotte Perkins Gilman -- The Yellow Wallpaper
- His face was striped horizontally with bands of blue and yellow.Katherine Applegate -- Everworld - Search For Senna
- Why did you hold the candle horizontally?Emily Bronte -- Wuthering Heights
- 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.John Corey Whaley -- Nogin
- She drew two horizontal lines at the bottom.Nora Roberts -- Blood Brothers
- The word shaker and the young man climbed up to the horizontal trunk.Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
- A stainless steel door, with a wide horizontal handle.Michael Crichton -- Jurassic Park
- Objects were represented by their colors only; circular horizontal streaks of color—that was all he saw.Ambrose Bierce -- An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge
- Shadows from the legs of the kitchen table lay across the linoleum in horizontal stripes like the shadows of prison bars.Stephen King -- Misery
- His neat pencil mustache divided his upper lip horizontally into half and ended exactly in line with the ends of his mouth.Arundhati Roy -- The God of Small Things
- Keep your head horizontal for a minute so it will get the flow of blood.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- She looks to her left and right in the pew and turns the postcard from upright to horizontal, flattening it against the open book so no one can see.Ron Suskind -- A Hope in the Unseen
- She couldn't get over the fact that Park spent most of his time in this room horizontal.Rainbow Rowell -- Eleanor & Park
- "Look at this — " He pointed to a box connected to his own by a horizontal line; it read: ASSISTANT TO COMMANDANT (Miss Kendrick).Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
- A long, black stream of carriages poured down the avenue, intersected here and there by other streams, tending horizontally.Willa Cather -- Paul's Case
- BELLO: (Ruthlessly) No, Leopold Bloom, all is changed by woman's will since you slept horizontal in Sleepy Hollow your night of twenty years.James Joyce -- Ulysses
- In its surface were two iron staples, distant from each other about two feet, horizontally.Edgar Allan Poe -- The Cask of Amontillado
- The Lunar catapult is straight so far as the eye can see and so nearly horizontal that the barges just miss some peaks beyond it.Robert A. Heinlein -- The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
- At first sight it seemed that an enormous horizontal door was flying up the road toward them.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
horizontally = in a manner that is in line with the floor, horizon, or another flat base