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How to use the word horizontal in a Sentence?

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The bulk of Mount Sharp is kind of a horizontal layer cake that built up over time.

Ashwin Vasavada

Found on CNN
2 years ago

I no longer want to talk about climate change. I want to talk about the climate crisis, it’s already here, and in order to address it, we need horizontal policies which essentially permeate every aspect of our economic and our social life.

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Found on Reuters
2 years ago

Most of them( lava bombs) arc high in the air, but every now and again there's one that gets shot like a rifle, more horizontal and that's what happened here.

Mark Clawson

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

We praise the Commission for understanding that a horizontal measure for all platforms is practically impossible, while a lot of online platforms enable economic growth, their business models differ widely.

Jakob Kucharczyk

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

It's no longer enough to be the low cost producer in U.S. horizontal shale, eOG's goal is to be competitive, low-cost oil producer in the global market.

Bill Thomas

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

During the second quarter we connected a total of 46 wells, including 38 verticals and eight horizontal wells, taking the total to 360 shale wells already in production.

Chief Financial Officer Daniel Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have extended the length of the horizontal sections from 1,200 meters to 1,500 meters, and are now in the process of further extending them up to 2,000 meters.

Chief Financial Officer Daniel Gonzalez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There is a right-angled pipe inside the train, and the baby was almost trapped in the horizontal pipe.

Qian Feng

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It is worth people considering that our children are growing up with a different neurological development than we did, they’re growing up with multiple devices and using forms of communication before they can even use the language. So who they’re going to be is very different from us; they’re going to have much faster ways of switching to one topic to another. In some ways, relationships are like that for young people, which is they’re not as deep and vertical but horizontal.

Robert Weiss

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

We have real-time communication through GPS, so the police stations know where the officer is at all times, if he goes off on a chase, they know where he is. If he goes completely out of contact, they know where he is. They can even determine if he is lying horizontal instead of vertical and issue an emergency response.

Robert McKeeman

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

The day before yesterday, as I was calmly reading ... I saw a reduced vision of my son Yuri's face, but dead, in a horizontal position, his eyes closed.

Eugene Botkin

added by anonymous
10 years ago

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things…[but] there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll, O Magazine, October 2002

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I liked New York when it was an up-and-down city for me, low streets and high buildings. But then, for me, it grew horizontal---monotonous.

Jasper Johns (lithographer), Newsweek, Oct. 24, 1977 - page 42.

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Dancing is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire.

Robert Frost

added by anonymous
14 years ago

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of thingsbut there are times when we stop. We sit sill. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

James Carroll

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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