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An infield painted black sought to focus attention on the illuminated live events, while the horizontal jumps were decided in a bright pink sandpit.

From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026

Cowin has also spliced together photographs of disparate subjects — people, places and things — on broad horizontal panels that suggest narrative progression but instead register as evocative panoramic poems.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 25, 2026

On the wall of a five-story building that collapsed after the earthquake, a rescuer marked a red "V" crossed by a horizontal line, indicating the end of the search for possible survivors.

From Barron's ● Aug. 17, 2026

As evidence, Karen pulls out a decades-old photo of my newsroom cubicle with its remarkable mounds of documents, folders, newspapers and books on every horizontal surface.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 8, 2026

She walks to the window and adjusts the horizontal blinds to let in sunlight.

From "Water for Elephants" by Sara Gruen

“Florida Painting” etches red horizontals into a yellow expanse flanked by vivid green, while the two-panel “Space Age Relaxation” carves white lines and colored bars into brown fields.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 3, 2021

For the Academy, City Hall’s arresting vertical lines were tranquilized into calming horizontals.

From New York Times ● Apr. 4, 2020

The only strict horizontals and verticals that will be found are in the rectangular paintings' edges.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2015

In the end, both vertical and horizontal turbines have their trade-offs, though horizontals are a more mature technology.

From Scientific American ● Aug. 18, 2011

She pointed to the dense thorny branches of a Blood Rose, cut and pinioned into cruel horizontals against the wall, yet still wild and heavy with dark red blooms.

From "How I Live Now" by Meg Rosoff