parallel

In a sentence

Six example sentences with parallel, each labelled with its topic.

• The two colonnades run parallel down the whole nave, never converging even where the floor slopes toward the altar.

  Architecture

• Keep the camera back parallel to the building facade, or the vertical lines will lean toward each other.

  Photography

• Two laser beams left the splitter parallel, staying exactly ten centimeters apart across the entire length of the bench.

  Science

• On the parallel bars a gymnast keeps her shoulders directly over her hands, so the two rails stay perfectly still.

  Fitness

• The engraver shaded the sky with hundreds of parallel lines, spaced so evenly they read as a smooth grey.

  Art

• The old highway and the railway run parallel across the plain, and for an hour the train raced our car.

  Travel

Found in these word lists

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More Academic words

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