horizontal
Example Sentences
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The horizontal city is just too big to fully gentrify; there was always another neighborhood where an artist could find studio space, or a gallery could open up shop.
From Los Angeles Times
Blocky “Wall of Light” paintings and stacked horizontal “Landline” works, made in the 2000s, traced the continuity and development of ideas first proposed in Montauk.
The slider he threw to Ramirez: 86.8 mph, 3,130 rpm, 37 inches of vertical break, 14 inches of horizontal break.
From Seattle Times
The bank was subject to quarterly reviews, and its overseers could choose to put it through horizontal reviews — thorough check-ins that test for a particular weakness by comparing a bank to firms of similar size.
From New York Times
That’s when the floor gave way, and she could feel herself falling — into a long, horizontal tank of chocolate in the factory’s basement.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
