How to Use longitudinal in a Sentence

longitudinal

adjective

• The insect's body is black with yellow longitudinal stripes.
• Run longitudinal lines down the globe from the north to the south pole.
  — Steve Nadis, Quanta Magazine, 24 Jan. 2023
• This finding held up across a long-term longitudinal follow-up, too.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 26 May 2026
• And there's often a lag in our access to that kind of longitudinal data.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
• Those troubling trends are borne out in longitudinal studies too.
  — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 9 Mar. 2021
• On the driver's side, there's a longitudinal sofa bench that pulls out straight to the kitchen block at night to create a cozy double bed.
  — New Atlas, 9 Sep. 2024
• People thought that there was no way to avoid this ghost, to avoid this longitudinal mode from ever being excited.
  — Janna Levin, Quanta Magazine, 29 Aug. 2024
• For the last two years, all students have learned in the longitudinal model in their second year of medical school.
  — Meg Wingerter, The Denver Post, 29 July 2024
• Simpson thinks more longitudinal studies that follow patients over time will be needed to know for sure.
  — USA Today, 23 May 2022
• The event begged to be examined in its longitudinal fullness.
  — CBS News, 12 July 2026
• The bark is smooth and slate-gray with distinctive white longitudinal stripes that become more fissured and rough as the tree matures.
  — Sj McShane, Martha Stewart, 4 May 2026
• Once across the Atlantic, Stubbs’ longitudinal skills failed him.
  — Hamilton Cain, Boston Herald, 5 Dec. 2025
• Pain, which also includes headache, ranks among the top symptoms of long Covid in large longitudinal studies.
  — Kate M. Nicholson, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
• This was a longitudinal study, meaning that researchers observed the same subjects several times across a span of time.
  — Stav Dimitropoulos, Popular Mechanics, 7 Nov. 2022
• In fact, a 75-year longitudinal study at Harvard found that kids who do chores are more successful as adults.
  — Rachel Reiff Ellis, Fortune Well, 16 July 2023
• And a growing share of those patients are now boys, according to a longitudinal study in Canada.
  — Michal Ruprecht, NPR, 14 Jan. 2026
• The team recently published the third and final report of their longitudinal study.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 18 June 2024
• In the narrower longitudinal grooves closer to the sidewalls of the tyre, just one of these white columns was visible.
  — Laurie Winkless, Forbes, 17 Mar. 2021
• But those two types of waves, longitudinal and transverse, aren’t exhaustive; there are other types of waves that can, and indeed do, exist.
  — Big Think, 7 May 2026
• And the inside seatbelt anchor is too far forward of the hip to provide any useful longitudinal restraint.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 16 May 2023
• Credit the heavy longitudinal channels on the outsole, which allowed the shoe to bend laterally with my foot during each step.
  — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 13 Sep. 2024
• The team also tried longitudinal stripes of LED lights, but these were less effective.
  — Melissa Cristina Marquez, Forbes, 30 Dec. 2024
• Subaru, of course, will need to alter the hybrid components to work with the longitudinal engine layout of its own platform.
  — Bengt Halvorson, Car and Driver, 15 Feb. 2018
• For more than three decades, Lord has been running a single longitudinal study of autistic people, for example.
  — Webb Wright, Scientific American, 5 June 2024
• Research from a large-scale longitudinal study on the effects of time with parents compared to child and teen outcomes had some surprising results.
  — Lisa Linnell-Olsen, Parents, 30 July 2024
• That said, there are longitudinal studies showing that allowing your child to cry a little and learn to self-soothe has no detrimental effects.
  — Elissa Strauss, CNN, 15 Sep. 2020
• The transverse rear bed layout offers some advantages over the longitudinal folding bench/bed far more common in midsize van campers.
  — New Atlas, 27 Aug. 2025
• The poles were not up on a curb but level with the road and surrounded with longitudinal yellow striping to define the viable path for vehicles.
  — Andrew J. Hawkins, The Verge, 12 June 2024
• The fix is to let transformers and longitudinal behavioral data predict the next best product.
  — Lutz Finger, Forbes.com, 23 May 2026
• In our large longitudinal study, one in two respondents reported having their work hours cut, and one in five had lost a job due to coronavirus by late April.
  — Time, 17 June 2020