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Example sentences for "vertical lines"

  • The tangential junction has in this case been fully possible and the eye moves freely from the vertical lines of the base to the similar vertical mass of the lantern without noticeable break.

  • So accustomed is the eye to vertical lines in tree trunks, tall buildings, and thousands of other examples that the upward eye movement in viewing an object, having a predominance of vertical elements, seemingly adds to its height.

  • Vertical lines on an object are found to produce an analogous effect vertically.

  • I shall in what follows take the direction of vertical lines of gravity as that of movement of falling bodies, from above towards the centre of the earth.

  • This quantitative relation fully demonstrates that geotropic stimulus acts in a definite direction which coincides with the vertical lines of gravity.

  • In figure 162 the arrow represents the direction of stimulus which may be rays of light or vertical lines of gravity.

  • This label is shaded by a number of vertical lines.

  • Postage" in outline capitals, shaded outside, on a ground of vertical lines, except at the ends, where the lines are horizontal.

  • The shadows of the oval are made by short colored horizontal lines, and those of the shield by vertical lines.

  • Shadows of the lower ribbon in vertical lines.

  • The rows of columns in a Greek temple, the clusters of vertical lines in a Gothic cathedral interior, are instances of the sublimity and power they possess.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vertical lines" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    civil and religious freedom; collected over; equal length; extreme pain; good cheer; handed down; hath called; historical studies; more intimate; other countries; serve the; simmer gently; small tribe; smaller proportion; steel trap; under command; vertical axis; vertical direction; vertical line; vertical lines; vertical plane; vertical position; vertical section; vertical shaft; vertical white; youth and