Inside all this were patterns of bouncing dots, and it didn't take long to see that what happened in one box spilled over into the next, so that patterns shifted and shifted and shifted laterally, and then switched levels and started bumping the other way.

He shifted laterally.

The river has numerous interlacing channels that shift laterally over the fan from time to time.

The episodic eustatic rise and fall of sea level caused depositional environments to change or to shift laterally.

He said that it was because my assemblage point did not have the stability then to remain completely glued to its new position and shifted laterally in man's band.

The sun rose like a great, orange balloon, its sides shifting laterally as light refracted through the warming air.

Any attempt to shift laterally on the face here would almost certainly trigger an avalanche in the soft slabs of snow overlaying old ice.

The tyrannosaurus, tall on its two powerful legs, shifted laterally to get around the heavy frill protecting the neck and back of the triceratops.

The same disparity produced from a shift in depth of an object (filled coloured circles) can also be produced by laterally shifting the object in constant depth in the picture one eye sees (black circles with coloured margin).