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Example Sentences

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That’s because if high-income shoppers scale back their spending, then the other horizontal lines of the “E” — the lower and middle classes — may not have enough spending power to keep the economy afloat.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 3, 2026

Plenty of you who regularly plunk down thousands for a business-class seat care about just one thing, of course: horizontal sleep.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 18, 2026

These signals appear as very low frequency transients i.e. impulse like transition or settling signals recorded in horizontal ground motion, including both acceleration and tilt.

From Science Daily • Mar. 15, 2026

There was a horizontal stripe down the shirt, she said.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2026

They were seated in groups along the branches, with shining black faces, silver bodies, horizontal eyebrows, and crested heads.

From "Interpreter of Maladies" by Jhumpa Lahiri