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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

They form horizontal bands, or stripes, running from the top of the nose to the bottom, grouped by receptor type.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

In this case the outsider was the architect Peter Zumthor, who was dazzled by the vast horizontal expanse of Los Angeles, as different as possible from his native Switzerland.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 17, 2026

When it reached the point of being horizontal, it banged against the stack of wooden pallets that had been placed below it.

From "The (Mostly) True Story of Cleopatra's Needle" by Dan Gutman