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
• And there's often a lag in our access to that kind of longitudinal data.
  — Joe Weisenthal, Bloomberg.com, 4 May 2023
• 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
• The longitudinal distance between the shallow end is 3.7 feet, whereas the deep end . .
  — Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2018
• 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
• Pain, which also includes headache, ranks among the top symptoms of long Covid in large longitudinal studies.
  — Kate M. Nicholson, STAT, 5 Dec. 2021
• What's missing is a true longitudinal health record (LHR).
  — Adam Connors For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 3 Nov. 2021
• Edgar looked into longitudinal weather studies and planted a test garden at their home and the home of their friends, Helene and Gene Meyer.
  — Lindsay Tigar, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2023
• 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 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
• 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
• For the zucchini noodles: Cut the ends off the zucchini and thinly slice into longitudinal strips, like lasagna noodles, about ¼-inch thick.
  — Mark Hyman, NBC News, 3 Nov. 2019
• Simpson thinks more longitudinal studies that follow patients over time will be needed to know for sure.
  — USA Today, 23 May 2022
• Those troubling trends are borne out in longitudinal studies too.
  — Your Fat Friend, SELF, 9 Mar. 2021
• For example, the AAP cites one longitudinal study published in 1995.
  — Carolyn L. Todd, SELF, 12 Oct. 2018
• 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
• And yet a longitudinal study in 2012 found that marriages in which money was the biggest point of friction were more likely to dissolve than marriages in which other issues loomed larger.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 31 Oct. 2019
• And a longitudinal study of people with COPD found that smoking e-cigarettes was linked to exacerbations of the disease and a faster decline.
  — Tanya Lewis, Scientific American, 20 Dec. 2019
• And the school just launched a new third-year longitudinal clerkship at MetroHealth, through which urban health students spend their core clinical year at the safety-net hospital.
  — Ginger Christ, cleveland.com, 11 Aug. 2019
• Flockhart and Larsen point out that the data on Svendsen, which includes a series of eight lab testing sessions over a five-year period, offers a longitudinal test of the same question.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 26 Dec. 2019
• And two, there’s clearly a longitudinal cost to not having in-person interactions at work.
  — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 16 Aug. 2023
• So the Bridgestone engineers encircled the tire with a few thin, longitudinal channels, and lots of short, diagonal grooves leading to the tire’s shoulder.
  — Nick Stockton, WIRED, 5 June 2019
• Adele’s catalogue is a longitudinal study of her life, each album focussed on a specific age.
  — Carrie Battan, The New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2021
• This intriguing and pressing question remains unknown due to a dearth of longitudinal studies that follow the same people over time.
  — Kathleen Mullan Harris, The Conversation, 7 Oct. 2019
• By the time a longitudinal study on usage of any particular app has finished, its subjects may well have shifted their attentions to a new platform that didn’t even exist at the time the study started.
  — Corinne Purtill, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2023
• However, that approach isn't very practical for the kind of longitudinal studies Hariri wants to conduct.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 8 July 2020
• But this isn't a longitudinal study, so researchers can't fully answer the question of whether polyglots were born with this efficiency or developed it over time.
  — TheWeek, 22 Feb. 2020
• Unlike solid, rigid plates in most super shoes, the plate is W-shaped; two longitudinal flex grooves let toes move semi-independently.
  — Brian Metzler, Outside Online, 25 Apr. 2022
• Likewise, providers must be equipped with the new sources of longitudinal health data to obtain a holistic picture of their patients and make more informed clinical decisions.
  — Lee Shapiro, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2021

Last Updated: 28 May 2024