How to Use longitudinal in a Sentence

longitudinal

adjective

• The insect's body is black with yellow longitudinal stripes.
• Run longitudinal lines down the globe from the north to the south pole.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
• And there's often a lag in our access to that kind of longitudinal data.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
• In fact, a 75-year longitudinal study at Harvard found that kids who do chores are more successful as adults.
  — Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune Well, 16 July 2023
• The longitudinal distance between the shallow end is 3.7 feet, whereas the deep end . .
  — Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2018
• In the narrower longitudinal grooves closer to the sidewalls of the tyre, just one of these white columns was visible.
  — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• Pain, which also includes headache, ranks among the top symptoms of long Covid in large longitudinal studies.
  — Kate M. Nicholson, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
• What's missing is a true longitudinal health record (LHR).
  — Adam Connors For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
• Nutt claimed the pulling of funding limited their findings, stating: ‘It was meant to be a longitudinal study over four to six years to get some sense of the impact of their policies on young people.
  — SI.com, 18 Feb. 2018
• Edgar looked into longitudinal weather studies and planted a test garden at their home and the home of their friends, Helene and Gene Meyer.
  — Lindsay Tigar, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2023
• This was a longitudinal study, meaning that researchers observed the same subjects several times across a span of time.
  — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
• The poles were not up on a curb but level with the road and surrounded with longitudinal yellow striping to define the viable path for vehicles.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 June 2024
• Using longitudinal data to study the ozone both before and after the test ban, the Berkeley chemist Harold Johnston found that stopping the testing had slowed the depletion.
  — Jill Lepore, The New Yorker, 30 Jan. 2017
• The team recently published the third and final report of their longitudinal study.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
• Foa told me he does believe there is data to support a longitudinal shift, but acknowledged that Noonan’s graph is not it.
  — David Zweig, New Republic, 16 May 2017
• Subaru, of course, will need to alter the hybrid components to work with the longitudinal engine layout of its own platform.
  — Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2018
• In our large longitudinal study, one in two respondents reported having their work hours cut, and one in five had lost a job due to coronavirus by late April.
  — Time, 17 June 2020
• And the inside seatbelt anchor is too far forward of the hip to provide any useful longitudinal restraint.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
• For the zucchini noodles: Cut the ends off the zucchini and thinly slice into longitudinal strips, like lasagna noodles, about ¼-inch thick.
  — Mark Hyman, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2019
• Research from a large-scale longitudinal study on the effects of time with parents compared to child and teen outcomes had some surprising results.
  — Lisa Linnell-Olsen, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Simpson thinks more longitudinal studies that follow patients over time will be needed to know for sure.
  — USA Today, 23 May 2022
• Those troubling trends are borne out in longitudinal studies too.
  — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 9 Mar. 2021
• For example, the AAP cites one longitudinal study published in 1995.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 12 Oct. 2018
• That said, there are longitudinal studies showing that allowing your child to cry a little and learn to self-soothe has no detrimental effects.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
• For more than three decades, Lord has been running a single longitudinal study of autistic people, for example.
  — Webb Wright, Scientific American, 5 June 2024
• And yet a longitudinal study in 2012 found that marriages in which money was the biggest point of friction were more likely to dissolve than marriages in which other issues loomed larger.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 31 Oct. 2019
• And a longitudinal study of people with COPD found that smoking e-cigarettes was linked to exacerbations of the disease and a faster decline.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2019
• Besides its Great Red Spot, Jupiter’s most eye-catching features are its alternating longitudinal bands of light and dark clouds.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 7 Mar. 2018
• And the school just launched a new third-year longitudinal clerkship at MetroHealth, through which urban health students spend their core clinical year at the safety-net hospital.
  — Ginger Christ, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• First, the 5000 Days Project, a renowned EQ program for kids, creating a longitudinal private documentary about growing up.
  — Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 25 June 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024