Sentence examples for may extend horizontally from inspiring English sources

Generally larger than cyclones, anticyclones exhibit persistent downward motions and yield dry stable air that may extend horizontally many hundreds of kilometres.

The trunk divides near the ground into several limbs that may extend horizontally as much as two to three times the height of the tree.

In wild peanuts, after the fruit has been implanted, the peg may extend horizontally for more than a metre, while an additional meristem within the fruit produces a narrow isthmus, sometimes several centimetres long, which breaks easily and separates the pod into single-seeded segments (Gregory et al., 1973).

Because these layers extend horizontally into the hillside, we first have to remove all the rock above these strata to expose the fossils.

In these bravura performances of draftsmanship on vast sheets of paper, the screws extend horizontally as if they were drilling tunnels through mountains.

The spilled-out flame/plume would extend horizontally farther with the increase of wind speed.

The prezygapophyses of the anterior cervicals extend horizontally, whereas those of more posterior cervicals are slightly upturned.

The lateral dendrites extend horizontally in the external plexiform layer and make reciprocal dendrodendritic synapses with granule cells, which moderate mitral/tufted cell activity.

However, shoot-borne roots are sometimes plagiogravitropic and extend horizontally, bending downwards later under their own weight.

These lines generally start from the edge of the palm at the 'heel," opposite the thumb, and extend horizontally.

The travel lines generally start from the edge of the palm at the 'heel," opposite the thumb, and extend horizontally.