How to Use horizontal in a Sentence

horizontal

adjective
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  • Don’t forget to use it on your neck to tackle horizontal lines.
    — Deanna Pai, Allure, 21 July 2024
  • At about a hundred feet, the aircraft shifted to horizontal flight.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 15 Apr. 2024
  • The frame consists of a base that supports a square arch to which the vertical and horizontal carriages are attached.
    — PCMAG, 30 Apr. 2024
  • On a computer screen, the codas appeared as a series of dots along a horizontal line, each dot representing a click.
    — Carl Zimmer, New York Times, 7 May 2024
  • Use the horizontal scroll bar underneath each candidate to read the full Q&A.
    — Ian Max Stevenson, Idaho Statesman, 10 May 2024
  • Click on the three horizontal lines to the left of the word Settings, then click on ‘Cookies and Site permissions’.
    — Ken Colburn, The Arizona Republic, 22 July 2024
  • This organizer comes assembled and can be used in three ways: vertical on both sides, vertical on one side, and horizontal on one side.
    — Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 2 May 2024
  • Previously, clicking on a video in the Facebook app may have pulled up a horizontal video, or one that played in a Feed-like player.
    — Bailey Schulz, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
  • The team removed the dining area part and created horizontal datums to create a sense of cohesiveness.
    — Sarah Yang, Sunset Magazine, 6 May 2024
  • During the event, two heliostats with moveable mirrors were used to direct images of the eclipsed Sun into a pair of horizontal telescopes.
    — Rebecca Boyle, TIME, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The length of the main span is the horizontal distance between the two primary supports, making way for the navigational channel.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 25 July 2024
  • These counties border each other in a horizontal line in the eastern part of the state, immediately east of Jefferson City.
    — Katie Hill, Outdoor Life, 10 Apr. 2024
  • The three urban stigmata of the Seventies were dog turds on horizontal surfaces, graffiti on vertical ones, and blasting music in the ether.
    — David Harsanyi, National Review, 18 Apr. 2024
  • From the next screen, click on the three horizontal lines in the upper right.
    — Shira Ovide, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Step 3 Open the sheet up, flip it over, and fold the top edge down along the horizontal black line near the center of the sheet.
    — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
  • Click the three horizontal lines in the top right, then pick Settings.
    — David Nield, Popular Science, 1 June 2023
  • Harder held the ball for a second, then slid a horizontal pass across the field.
    — Naaman Zhou, The New Yorker, 19 July 2023
  • According to Baseball Savant’s run value, Webb’s changeup is the fourth best in the majors on a per-pitch basis with the third-most horizontal movement.
    — Jacob Calvin Meyer, Baltimore Sun, 5 May 2024
  • But twice in each monthlong lunar orbit, the Moon crosses through the same horizontal plane as the Earth and the Sun.
    — Shannon Schmoll, USA TODAY, 3 May 2023
  • On the walls are long, horizontal LED screens that react to the music with light, flashing and dimming in the dark room.
    — Steven Vargas, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
  • Pipe 2 horizontal lines running crosswise across the cake, 1 line about halfway down and 1 line about three-quarters of the way down the length of the cake.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 24 Oct. 2023
  • And fabrics stacked in bolts is an accounting, the horizontal folds like lines in a ledger.
    — Robert Sullivan, Vogue, 22 Mar. 2023
  • And don’t use caulk to fill horizontal seams between boards that are used for siding.
    — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 13 Oct. 2023
  • Hawaii The eight horizontal stripes on Hawaii's state flag represent the eight major islands that make up the state.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 18 Mar. 2023
  • The face sports horizontal grooves on the face—a signature of the Nautilus series—as well as a day date window at 3 o’clock and a 12-hour mono counter at 6.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
  • Hawaii state flag The eight horizontal stripes on Hawaii's state flag represent the eight major islands that make up the state.
    — Olivia Munson, The Courier-Journal, 5 Jan. 2024
  • The front and rear seat cushions can be arranged to form two flat, almost horizontal beds.
    — Don Schroeder, Car and Driver, 29 May 2023
  • There’s also a front horizontal lightbar in front just like that found on the pickup’s front end.
    — Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 17 May 2024
  • Once the cut is 1/16 inch deep or deeper, begin sloping the saw back until the cut line is horizontal to the top surface.
    — Roy Berendsohn, Popular Mechanics, 19 Jan. 2023
  • The complex’s dual towers rise from either side of a busy highway, and are bridged improbably by a horizontal structure hovering 300 feet in the air that’s nearly as long as the buildings are high.
    — Sarah Khan, TIME, 25 July 2024

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