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Meanings of nearly perpendicular in English
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Usage of nearly perpendicular in English
1
When the needle was faced to the west it hung nearly perpendicular.
2
Several streams fall down the nearly perpendicular cliffs, and form beautiful cascades.
3
The outer margin of the gulf all round is nearly perpendicular.
4
Smoke curled up from its chimney and rose in a nearly perpendicular column.
5
On the lower side it stood nearly perpendicular, as the uprights were thus set.
6
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad passes this point, where the mountain stands nearly perpendicular.
7
The leaf might be nearly perpendicular, but it stuck to it like a fly.
8
The types employed are arranged in columns, nearly perpendicular.
9
Ahead of them a path crossed theirs at a nearly perpendicular angle, slanting upward steeply.
10
Storm was coming in at a nearly perpendicular angle.
11
I once saw a wide column trying to pass along a crumbling, nearly perpendicular, slope.
12
The giant plane had struck about twenty feet from the top of a nearly perpendicular cliff.
13
Or an up-slope from the north would end in a long, nearly perpendicular cliff-line facing south.
14
I stood on the summit of that nearly perpendicular ascent they call the "Scales."
15
The banks are nearly perpendicular cliffs of slate.
16
Above and below, the hill-side was nearly perpendicular.
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