Sentence examples for more or less horizontal from inspiring English sources

In some regions sedimentary strata have remained more or less horizontal long after they were deposited.

The rocks underlying Great Plains Montana, except for the mountain outliers, are young, soft, and more or less horizontal.

Underneath the supreme authority, Ayatollah Khamenei, are councils and ministries that have a more or less horizontal relationship and continually vie to fill whatever vacuums are left by the Leader.

Most of the state's people live in a sprawling, more or less horizontal metropolis that stretches 130 miles (209km) from Fort Collins in the north to Colorado Springs in the state's middle.

Subiculum thin, consisting of thin, fairly compact layer of more or less horizontal hyphae next to the substratum, and loose intermediate layer composed of variously oriented hyphae.

Combined with the more or less horizontal orientation of the forearm, this suggests that the elbow and knee joints were relatively weak and did not form an effective supporting limb, at least not for walking on land.

Dress, hairstyle, sexual activity (more OR less).

McMillan and Horobin have listed hundreds of modern European, North American and Australian cultivars, which they put into a number of cultivar groups: The Truncata Group contains all cultivars with mainly S. truncata characteristics: stem segments with pointed teeth (dentate); zygomorphic flowers held more or less horizontally, usually above the horizontal; and pollen which is yellow.

The cultivars of Schlumbergera fall into two main groups: The Truncata Group contains all cultivars with features derived mainly from the species S. truncata: stem segments with pointed teeth; flowers held more or less horizontally, usually above the horizontal, whose upper side is differently shaped from the lower side (zygomorphic); and pollen which is yellow.

The reference position was based on the stretching posture described by the FEI, in which a low neck with the nose-line slightly in front of the vertical and the mouth reaching more or less the horizontal line corresponding with the point of the shoulder should be achieved [ 13].

For a couple of months, the occupation offered those with sufficient inclination, chutzpah, articulateness, and/or willingness to suffer discomfort a more or less self-governing, horizontal community one without leaders, without grotesque discrepancies in property, acting according to no rules other than those the encampment devised.