A beam runs along the top of the bridge, offering lateral support to the structure.

Instead of jumping up and down, I placed a pile of books under both ends of a pole and jumped in a lateral direction.

Jack threw a lateral pass in the final seconds of the fourth quarter, which made no sense because it did not advance them toward the end zone.

Diane’s boss said that instead of promoting her, she would undergo a lateral repositioning, meaning that her new work would remain equivalent to the old.

We built a lateral canal that runs alongside the existing stream, with only a few feet of separation between the two.