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Example Sentences

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Eugene Levert, chain-smoking next to a stack of books while wearing a vertical blue-striped button-down and khaki slacks, looked the scholarly mirror of Doug Lamplugh, in a horizontal blue-striped polo and khaki shorts.

From Slate • May 4, 2026

Second, I think that we talk about L.A. as a horizontal city, and that’s certainly true.

From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026

By the 1870s his work—often passively comfortable with the standard paysage, or horizontal format, and entranced by distant spectacles like sunsets or mountaintops—began to seem sedate to serious viewers.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 1, 2026

Neurons form tightly organized, overlapping horizontal stripes based on the receptor they carry.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

A couple lay twelve feet off the ground, their seat back stuck in a horizontal position, staring up at the sky as if undergoing some kind of examination.

From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris