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Examples of vertical angle in a Sentence
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Touch your butt to the box, controlling the weight, keeping your shins at a vertical angle with the ground.
—Brett Williams, Men's Health, 6 July 2023
Each Cannon panel is made with slab yarn at a vertical angle which yields a distinctive, elevated pattern to the feather-light fabric.
—Maria Conti, Better Homes & Gardens, 10 Feb. 2023
Attendees were treated to a spectacular aerial display in which the aircraft took flight at a near-vertical angle, before performing a number of impressive maneuvers, much to the delight of the crowd below.
—Tamara Hardingham-Gill, CNN, 27 July 2022
Video captured by a local mining company showed the plane hurtling toward the ground at an almost completely vertical angle.
—Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2022
Racked by explosions, Kursk sank in 354 feet of water at a 20-degree vertical angle.
—Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 11 Mar. 2022
Footage of the crash recorded at a local mining company on Monday showed the plane plummeting at nearly a vertical angle out of the sky.
—Washington Post, 23 Mar. 2022
Footage of the crash recorded at a local mining company Monday showed the plane plummeting at nearly a vertical angle out of the sky.
—Eva Dou, Lyric Li and Vic Chiang, Anchorage Daily News, 23 Mar. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1571, in the meaning defined above
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“Vertical angle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vertical%20angle. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.
Kids Definition
vertical angle
noun
: either of a pair of angles that have the same vertex and are on opposite sides of two intersecting straight lines
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