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    perpendicular example sentences

    perpendicular


    1. He pulled the limb out on a line perpendicular to the seam


    2. he moves his arms to the perpendicular


    3. Lifting the saw above his head and perpendicular to the wall, he slid it through the side of the house as if by magic


    4. This ridge would be perpendicular to the movements of the plates as they slid away from the crack


    5. General Linares had made preparation to vigorously oppose a landing here, and two almost perpendicular cliffs were terraced with trenches carefully masked from top to bottom


    6. The hard clay of the hill had made revetments unnecessary, but the perpendicular trenches, backed by a second rampart before the fort, had impeded their retreat and caused the only serious loss from our fire


    7. Powell put his hand straight out, in a widely stretched V-sign, palm perpendicular to the mat


    8. He stood beside the car that Patty and Doug had sat in all day, combing his fingers through his beard, and scanned the street perpendicular to theirs where the logging company had its office


    9. When I walk forward, I notice that it continues farther than I can see, perpendicular to the horizon


    10. They are polished and sleek, and instead of boards running perpendicular to their path, there are sheets of textured metal

    11. The current was not much to speak of, but enough to cause the boat to drift a bit downstream as it traveled perpendicular


    12. * Your calves need to be perpendicular to the floor with feet on the ground


    13. “Now, I was thinking that if the wizard’s power is radiated from the stone in a direction that is mostly perpendicular to the surface, there should be a point above the center of a hemispherical impact crater that intercepts most of the radiation, and is therefore analogous to the focus at Focus Mountain at high noon


    14. imagine the ovoid’s longer axis perpendicular to the ground


    15. plane perpendicular to the direction of propagation of the wave 31 Trans-


    16. planet's equatorial plane, perpendicular to its orbit about the Sun


    17. It was close to noon because the sun was perpendicular; reigning over our heads and the heat was felt intensely in our bodies sweating like oranges in a sauna


    18. The track, sometimes little more than a meter wide, twisted through the mountains, occasionally clinging perilously to perpendicular cliffs, but rarely departing from a canyon that cut through the great rocks


    19. Purple is perpendicular to our direction of travel


    20. Wendy and Rachel initiated jumps to positions perpendicular to the approaching picket ships

    21. This perpendicular shot was the toughest of all shots to make


    22. The stairs exited into a corridor that ran perpendicular to the direction of the stairs


    23. The instant that the two ships were on station perpendicular to the Class Seven cargo ship’s line of travel at the “three o’clock” and “nine o’clock” positions, Greg called, “Fire One!”


    24. The hall ended at another, which ran perpendicular to it


    25. They ended up at another hall that ran perpendicular to the one they were on


    26. When I need a slice or two, I cut perpendicular to the way the slices run


    27. The way to verify the closeness of the shot to Kennedy’s head is to look at the scene from the side view, perpendicular to the shot and trace the ray from the known height of the window sill to the point on the


    28. respect to the perpendicular to Kennedy’s back for the Courts bldg, and 45 degrees, for the Records bldg; so I’ll guess the Records bldg as shown


    29. would have a 4th dimension (time) perpendicular to them (on the side of the twisted


    30. loop would have a 4th dimension (time) perpendicular to them (on the side of the

    31. along, for example, the top of a loop would have a 4th dimension (time) perpendicular to


    32. She was sitting perpendicular to me and slowly turned in my direction, all the while running her foot up my leg and resting it on the seat directly in front of my crotch


    33. What I did find was what looked like a footpath going perpendicular to the direction I was headed, so I figured, ‘any port in a storm’ and started following the ‘new’ trail


    34. With climb milling, the arrow is nearly perpendicular to the cut


    35. be perpendicular to the direction of cut


    36. With the floor perpendicular to the direction of travel, some people might be disoriented looking up and seeing movement, especially with artificial gravity adding to the illusion that one was standing still, but Garcia was not disturbed by this


    37. He fired up the torch and ran the flame over the top of the gold, occasionally breathing the fire perpendicular to the gold shaving


    38. Dave parked the car at the end of the driveway, under the large cross, and the couple got out and walked along the perpendicular top of the driveway toward the main house


    39. In front of them the other knights bring their mounts around so their steeds and their lances are perpendicular to the road


    40. Position the patient in sitting perpendicular to the pulleys

    41. Position the patient in sitting perpendicular to the pulley


    42. up so it was facing towards the highway perpendicular to the direction


    43. slid on the pavement turning slowly until it was perpendicular with the


    44. I saw the referee’s eyes moving, and then I saw his arm shoot out perpendicular to his body


    45. by the way his spine stays perpendicular to the slope, and


    46. gerated version of holding the perpendicular poles, will help the


    47. bindings mounted more perpendicular to the board,


    48. The law of Pythagoras states that the sum total of the square of the two sides in a rectangular triangle will always be equal to square of the perpendicular side


    49. water, with the rod pointing perpendicular to the line


    50. We began shaving dirt sideways but superior driving on my part kept us perpendicular to the heavens

































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    Synonyms for "perpendicular"

    perpendicular plumb line english-gothic english-gothic architecture perpendicular style vertical horizontal straight erect even level plumb

    "perpendicular" definitions

    a straight line at right angles to another line


    a Gothic style in 14th and 15th century England; characterized by vertical lines and a four-centered (Tudor) arch and fan vaulting


    a cord from which a metal weight is suspended pointing directly to the earth's center of gravity; used to determine the vertical from a given point


    an extremely steep face


    intersecting at or forming right angles


    at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line


    so steep as to be nearly veritcal