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breadthwise

ADVERB
  1. in the direction of the breadth
    cut the cloth breadthwise

How To Use breadthwise In A Sentence

  • With a removable chalk pencil draw lines through the center of the fabric both lengthwise and breadthwise.
  • Beads are woven lengthwise and breadthwise into the human story.
  • Similarly we have upward locomotion and downward locomotion, which are contrary lengthwise, locomotion to the right and locomotion to the left, which are contrary breadthwise, and forward locomotion and backward locomotion, which too are contraries. Physics
  • With a removable chalk pencil draw lines through the center of the fabric both lengthwise and breadthwise.
  • The carriages are like broad coaches; two seats ran breadthwise across them, with a large door at each side. Visit to Iceland
  • cut the cloth breadthwise
  • Most stamp seals are perforated lengthwise, many are unperforated, and very small minorities are perforated breadthwise.
  • Then help the thick part lengthwise, that is, in the direction of the lines from a to b; and the thin part breadthwise, that is, in the direction of the lines from The Book of Household Management
  • The Egyptian cubit, which was similarly derived, was divided into digits, which were _finger-breadths_; and each finger-breadth was more definitely expressed as being equal to four _grains of barley_ placed breadthwise. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library
  • He replaced her again breadthwise on the couch, unable to sit up, with her thighs open, between which I could observe a kind of white liquid, like froth, hanging about the outward lips of that recently opened wound, which now glowed with a deeper red. Fanny Hill: Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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