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vertical surface

n. a surface that is vertical

Usage examples of "vertical surface".

The palm slides downward in a slanted line and comes to the level of the pancreas and spleen, as if it were smoothing out a vertical surface.

The light shining on the vertical surface immediately in front of his eyes was the wrong colourand it was much too bright.

Another startled lizard ran spraddle-legged a dozen feet along the vertical surface of the wall.

Lowering himself suddenly to his knees he placed his right eye at the keyhole, and controlling the oscillation of his head and the vagaries of his left eye (which was for ever trying to dash up and down the vertical surface of the door), he was able by dint of concentration to observe, within three inches of his keyholed eye, an eye which was not his, being not only of a different colour to his own iron marble but being, which is more convincing, on the other side of the door.

The light shining on the vertical surface immediately in front of his eyes was the wrong colour - and it was much too bright.

Several score hexagonal plates lay upon a broad, smooth, vertical surface made of some obdurate, blood-colored, impervious alloy.

The thing clinging to the vertical surface of the central Mnemosyne cable was not a buzz bomb, just as an alligator is not an iguana.

Slowly, carefully, he began to let himself down the vertical wall of rock, his hands holding firmly to the rope, and his feet walking backward down the vertical surface.

Several score hexagonal plates lay upon a broad, smooth, vertical surface made.

Several score hexagonal plates lay upon a broad, smooth, vertical surface made .

It landed on the wall, its legs clinging to the nearly vertical surface, then spun on all of its legs, whistling.

By means of suction discs extended from stiff radii of a power-driven revolving central shaft the machine ascended the vertical surface until it arrived at a window.

They checked their webbing, no longer in the horizontal acceleration attitude but in the vertical surface-transit mode.

Looking forward, along what had to be the main city axis, she saw thirty meters of floor before it reached a flat blue vertical surface.

In her final moments she slewed around on the nearly vertical surface and rolled.