66 examples of laterally in sentences

Like American deer it has the lower ends of the lateral metacarpals remaining, and the antlers are without a brow-tine, but like Cervus it has an incomplete vomer, and unlike deer in general, the antlers are set laterally on the frontal bone, instead of more or less vertically, and the nasal bones are excessively short.

If the skull is split an almost imperceptible paring of the skull bones at the joint would suffice to drop the antlers either laterally out of their proper plane, or else pitch the main beam backward.

alongside &c (laterally) 236. 216a.

sideways, sidelong; broadside on; on one side, abreast, alongside, beside, aside; by the side of; side by side; cheek by jowl &c (near) 197; to windward, to leeward; laterally &c adj.; right and left; on her beam ends.

If there is no apparent chance of this being successful, they try to steal out laterally and outflank the line, or if that also is impossible, they hide in some secret recess like a fox, or crouch low in some clumpy bush, and trust to you or your elephant passing by without noticing their presence.

Raise the arm laterally until horizontal; carry it to a vertical position above the head and swing it several times between the vertical and horizontal positions.

Raise the arm laterally until horizontal; carry it downward to the side and swing it several times between the downward and horizontal positions.

Extend the arm vertically above the head; carry it laterally downward to the side and swing it several times between the vertical and downward positions.

Raise both arms laterally until horizontal.

Raise both arms laterally until horizontal; swing both simultaneously upward until vertical and return to the horizontal; repeat several times.

Raise both arms laterally until horizontal; hold the arm on the side of the guide steadily in the horizontal position; swing the other upward until vertical and return it to the horizontal; repeat several times.

The chest should be very wide laterally, round, prominent, and deep, making the dog appear very broad and short-legged in front.

Q.The rings should be carefully fitted to one another laterally?

The halves are put together with rebated joints to keep them from separating laterally, and they are prevented from sliding out by round steel pins, each ground into both halves; square keys would probably be preferable to round pins in this arrangement, as the pins tend to wedge the jaws of the eccentric asunder.

It follows, therefore, that if it is prevented from pursuing its spiral course in the water, it will displace the water to a certain extent laterally, in the manner it does if the engine be set on when the vessel is at anchor; and a part of the engine power is thus wasted in producing a useless disturbance of the water, which in paddle vessels is not expended at all.

This, added to the progress of the vessel, will make the distance advanced by the screw through the water 4.7 feet per revolution, leaving the difference between this and the pitch, namely 1.13 feet, to be accounted for on the supposition that the screw blades had broken laterally through the water to that extent.

THE WALL is that portion of the hoof seen in front and laterally when the horse's foot is on the ground.

It is extremely probable, however, that it commences first at the toe and spreads laterally.

It therefore fails to expand laterally with weight, and cannot assist, as normally it should, in aiding the heels generally in their movements of expansion.

In anser to your Innqueries, their as been a great falling off laterally, so much so this year that there was nobody allmost.

It is probable, moreover, that the superstructure, before going over, moved laterally upon its temporary supports.

The series of small hexagonal shields on the abdomen of this curious animal appears to be formed of two series of scales united laterally.

The ship's lanterns throwing their lights laterally, left the deck of the vessel in profound darkness.

For the last 50 or 60 years the branches have been gradually dying on the S. E. side, and about 25 years ago a strong S. E. gale, coming with accumulated force down Hope Gill, andowing to the tree being so open on that sidetaking it laterally at a disadvantage, wrenched off one of the great side branches down to the ground, carrying away nearly a third of the tree.

One trifle I will here mention, as admitting laterally a single ray of light upon Polwarth's character.

66 examples of  laterally  in sentences