How to Use vertical in a Sentence

vertical

adjective

• The tronk is the vertical structure in the center of the castell that holds the most weight.
  — National Geographic, 31 July 2019
• Kids like to try to run up the vertical sandy path at the front.
  — Dana Oland, idahostatesman, 21 May 2018
• Tap the three vertical dots at the top right (a gear icon on some phones).
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 25 Aug. 2023
• Take a close look at his vertical jump in the video above.
  — Rhett Allain, WIRED, 25 Apr. 2018
• On the left side, about a quarter of the way from the edge, draw a vertical line from the top to the bottom.
  — Robert Bateman, Esquire, 13 June 2013
• The vertical wall of Half Dome’s western face blushed in the late sun.
  — Emily Pennington, Outside Online, 1 Feb. 2023
• Among the events Baughs hopes to have success at will be the vertical jump.
  — Tim Bielik, cleveland.com, 2 Mar. 2018
• Use your knee to hit the flat, vertical part of the knee kicker.
  — Timothy Dale, Better Homes & Gardens, 12 July 2024
• This vertical growth habit means its spread is less than a third that of the species.
  — Bonnie Blodgett, Twin Cities, 15 Apr. 2017
• When vertical, the camera will be on the right-hand side.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 6 Aug. 2020
• Avoid visual clutter and let the bed frame take up the vertical space in the room.
  — Cori Sears, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Mar. 2024
• This spinning rack makes the most of vertical space and can hold up to 24 pairs of shoes.
  — Hannah Jones, Country Living, 28 Feb. 2023
• That may mean that vertical tabs will be confined to the left rail.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 30 Mar. 2020
• Luke has like a 10-inch vertical and avoids driving to the basket like the plague.
  — Ira Winderman, Sun-Sentinel.com, 9 July 2018
• Climbers jam hands and feet into finger- and fist-width cracks to inch their way up the vertical wall.
  — Fox News, 6 June 2018
• And, due to the vertical bluff, there isn’t direct access to the beach either.
  — Mark David, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2023
• And King later rode back to Ojai on a longer, more vertical route.
  — Jordi Lippe-McGraw, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The vertical control stick, the nerve center of the craft, was gripped between his knees.
  — Christoper Spregg, Popular Mechanics, 19 Aug. 2020
• When the water is still very cold and bass are deep, drop a blade straight down and vertical-jig it in a fish’s face.
  — Dave Hurteau, Field & Stream, 22 Apr. 2020
• Just got to get some more vertical movement and some more movement in the run game.
  — Jenna Ortiz, The Arizona Republic, 10 Sep. 2023
• The south side, located in Nepal, is a near-vertical wall.
  — Ben Ayers, Outside Online, 19 Feb. 2022
• Plus, the stand is height-adjustable and can swivel to vertical mode.
  — Nena Farrell, WIRED, 27 Nov. 2023
• The whole point is to create enough vertical air space for a header or dunk.
  — Ben Cohen, WSJ, 2 July 2018
• Then, fold the top half up to form a vertical triangle.
  — Maggie Burch, Southern Living, 24 Jan. 2024
• The course has a total vertical drop of almost 2,700 feet.
  — Pamela Wright, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Jan. 2023
• The robot climbs the vertical walls, then breaks the surface with its PVC roller brush spinning against the wall.
  — Brad Moon, Forbes, 28 June 2022
• Cessa throws his slider, which has a unique vertical drop, over 60% of the time.
  — Charlie Goldsmith, The Enquirer, 3 Aug. 2021
• The region hadn’t flattened the curve, so much as erected a near-vertical line.
  — James Ross Gardner, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2020
• Conventional text formatting causes readers to move their eyes in both the horizontal and vertical planes: across the line, down to the next line, and back to start the next line across.
  — Jerry Weissman, Forbes, 30 Nov. 2024
• The reptile resembled a dolphin but wasn’t a mammal, with a vertical, instead of a horizontal, tail fluke.
  — Sara Novak, Discover Magazine, 11 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 29 Dec 2024