When the needle was faced to the west it hung nearly perpendicular.

Several streams fall down the nearly perpendicular cliffs, and form beautiful cascades.

The outer margin of the gulf all round is nearly perpendicular.

Smoke curled up from its chimney and rose in a nearly perpendicular column.

On the lower side it stood nearly perpendicular, as the uprights were thus set.

The Memphis and Charleston Railroad passes this point, where the mountain stands nearly perpendicular.

The leaf might be nearly perpendicular, but it stuck to it like a fly.

The types employed are arranged in columns, nearly perpendicular.

Ahead of them a path crossed theirs at a nearly perpendicular angle, slanting upward steeply.

Storm was coming in at a nearly perpendicular angle.

I once saw a wide column trying to pass along a crumbling, nearly perpendicular, slope.

The giant plane had struck about twenty feet from the top of a nearly perpendicular cliff.

Or an up-slope from the north would end in a long, nearly perpendicular cliff-line facing south.

I stood on the summit of that nearly perpendicular ascent they call the "Scales."

The banks are nearly perpendicular cliffs of slate.

Above and below, the hill-side was nearly perpendicular.