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.

From The Wall Street Journal

Albers’s horizontal rectangles have an otherworldly serenity, but are enlivened by dynamic pairs of vertical dashes which sometimes look disconcertingly like cartoon eyes.

From New York Times

The building code, a set of minimum standards, states that the ground around all sides of a house must have 6 inches of fall in the first 10 horizontal feet of runaway from the house.

From Seattle Times

Now, the average horizontal movement on his sinker is 17.5 inches, which ranks him 36th among 220 qualified pitchers in the majors who have thrown the pitch.

From Washington Post