Sentence examples for vertical stroke from inspiring English sources

Thorn is an obsolete letter from the Anglo-Saxon alphabet representing the sound we now write as "th": it looks like the letter "p" with the vertical stroke extending above as well as below the protuberance.

The British ships in effect formed the horizontal stroke and the German ships the vertical stroke of the letter "T," with the British having deployed into line at a right angle to the German ships' forward progress.

This January, they started greeting customers with a gesture adopted from the sign language of the deaf a vertical stroke for "bee" and hands shovelling towards the heart for "happy"—which kids have started using in playgrounds.

By the end of the 12th century this strong vertical stroke was made more prominent as Carolingian letters were made narrower and some curved parts of letters were replaced with angles.

What else are you looking for when you hire? A. There's this idea that McKinsey first articulated many years ago of the T-shaped person, which is somebody who's got some deep craft — a great writer or a great designer or a great architect, engineer or whatever they might be — and that's the vertical stroke of their T.

The horizontal line represents the entire text production whereas each vertical stroke indicates when the test taker switched from one document to another, e.g. from Task Instructions to Source Text 1. Fig. 2 Sample Inputlog graph 2. The graph representing Ben's writing processes (Fig. 3) was relatively simple and linear as compared to Mary's (Fig. 4).

Masses of vertical strokes reorient the conventional horizontal landscape, suggesting thick grasses or tightly clustered trees.

A woozy Expressionist house shoulders in from the right, and vertical strokes play at being trees.

In his landscapes, Wolf Kahn has conditioned viewers to his idiom: a lot of vertical strokes stand for growth.

She even painted some of the vertical strokes on the horse of Guernica, a minor but symbolic contribution.

Chavez, known to New York racing fans as Chop Chop, a nickname born from his short, vertical strokes with his whip, has become a good stretch rider.