transversely
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On KLM, “The transportation of horses transversely to the flight direction is not permitted. Horses must travel facing forwards or backwards.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 22, 2017
The deep muscle, the transversus abdominis, is arranged transversely around the abdomen, similar to the front of a belt on a pair of pants.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
It also exhibits a remarkable asymmetric condition of the neural spines where they alternate from having transversely compressed apices to apices that are expanded to the right.
From Scientific American ● Jan. 10, 2013
Woodrow Wilson, thoroughgoing theorist, wanted to disband the Princeton clubs, that there might be no "undemocratic" associations running transversely through the undergraduate bodies.
From Time Magazine Archive
He has laid himself transversely upon the deck where we sit, and stares inert.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson
