INCH in a Sentence
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164 example sentences for INCH, such as:
1. The curtains were an inch too short.
2. Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
3. An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
4. Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
5. The car missed me by a fraction of an inch.
2. Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
3. An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
4. Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
5. The car missed me by a fraction of an inch.
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Meanings and Examples of INCH
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inch
v. advance slowly, as if by inches
n. a unit of measurement for advertising space
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1 And here he was now, stepping out of an elegant carriage and handing down a woman dressed within an inch of her life.
2 If we just stand together and don't give an inch to the Yankees, we'll win, some day.
3 Others would say you were letting down bars that ought never be lowered one inch.
4 "You're taking stitches an inch long," declared Pitty with some satisfaction.
5 Mammy had never yielded an inch from her stand that Rhett was a mule in horse harness.
6 The second principle of the crammed-Victorian school was that every inch of the interior must be filled with useless objects.
7 Beneath an inch of water was a layer of ice, so that as they wavered with their suit-cases they slid and almost fell.
8 They scuffled inch by inch for three blocks.
9 But no; there he was just where I had left him; he had not stirred an inch.
10 Upon each side of the Pequod's quarter deck, and pretty close to the mizzen shrouds, there was an auger hole, bored about half an inch or so, into the plank.
11 But while this sleep, this dream is on ye, move your foot or hand an inch; slip your hold at all; and your identity comes back in horror.
12 But the predestinated mate coming still closer to him, where the Lakeman stood fixed, now shook the heavy hammer within an inch of his teeth; meanwhile repeating a string of insufferable maledictions.
13 The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water.
14 The whale-line is only two-thirds of an inch in thickness.
15 The compact round body of its root expands into two broad, firm, flat palms or flukes, gradually shoaling away to less than an inch in thickness.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
2 Cut half an inch off the base of each stem.
3 But police now know the murder weapon was a knife with a ten inch long blade.
4 The car stopped within a fraction of an inch of the wall.
5 Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
6 The car missed me by a fraction of an inch.
7 Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
8 Like sunlight penetrates every inch of skin feeling faint.
9 In his first game the young player already looked every inch a winner.
10 The curtains were an inch too short.
11 In the case of a book where the average width is one inch, for example, the ideal length of elastic will be around 14 inches.
12 It was according to the old saying, "Give a nigger an inch and he'll take an ell.
13 The organisation of the protesters has been impeccable: all over Gezi Park every inch of space is still covered by tents, blankets, tables laden with food, maps and information posts.
14 This ruler has one scale in centimeters and another in inches.
15 Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.