be vertical

Example Sentences

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We’re mostly beyond hating and bragging at this point, happy to be vertical or angled a bit.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jul. 9, 2026

Thill: One beneficiary in software is going to be vertical applications.

From Barron's • Mar. 27, 2026

The rear wall needs to be vertical rising up from the floor, but then at a certain height, it needs to start to gently slope toward the front of the fireplace.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2023

Two photons can be entangled so that each is in an uncertain both-ways state, but their polarizations are correlated so that if one is horizontal the other must be vertical and vice versa.

From Science Magazine • Jul. 20, 2022

The plant keeps its artificial shape, but the sap has not changed its course, and any new growth the plant may make will be vertical.

From Emile by Rousseau, Jean-Jacques