INCHES in a Sentence
Learn INCHES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.
164 example sentences for INCHES, such as:
1. I'm five feet three inches tall.
2. It's a few inches beyond my reach.
3. Twelve inches are equal to one foot.
4. Park about nine inches clear of the kerb.
5. A child can drown in only a few inches of water.
2. It's a few inches beyond my reach.
3. Twelve inches are equal to one foot.
4. Park about nine inches clear of the kerb.
5. A child can drown in only a few inches of water.
Search Quotes from Classic Book Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen |
Meanings and Examples of INCHES
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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 The green muslin measured seventeen inches about the waist, and Mammy had laced her for the eighteen-inch bombazine.
2 Mammy gave a little shriek and retreated and from a distance of a yard, modestly elevated her dress a few inches and showed the ruffle of a red taffeta petticoat.
3 "There is something to do about it," thought Scarlett as she ripped savagely at the seams of her dress to let out the necessary inches.
4 He began with a bar two inches from the ground and gradually worked up the height to a foot.
5 I seen some wheat that must of been five inches high.
6 Once, she whispered, she was going by when an indiscreet window-shade had been left up a couple of inches.
7 The few sleepers below in their bunks were often startled by the sharp slapping of their tails against the hull, within a few inches of the sleepers' hearts.
8 That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
9 Immediately, by Starbuck's orders, lines were secured to it at different points, so that ere long every boat was a buoy; the sunken whale being suspended a few inches beneath them by the cords.
10 From that part, the remaining ribs diminished, till the tenth and last only spanned five feet and some inches.
11 The smallest, where the spine tapers away into the tail, is only two inches in width, and looks something like a white billiard-ball.
12 The bluish pearl-white of the inside of the jaw was within six inches of Ahab's head, and reached higher than that.
13 From under the lining he now produced a collection of brilliantly coloured paper figures, several inches high and stiff enough to stand alone.
14 He is only about five feet high, but even so these trousers are about eight inches short of the ground.
15 It was the life she had to live, the accursed work she had to do, that was killing her by inches.
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
1 This ruler has one scale in centimeters and another in inches.
2 Evil comes to us by ells and goes away by inches.
3 The bullet penetrated three inches into the wall.
4 A child can drown in only a few inches of water.
5 The tongue is but three inches long, yet it can kill a man six feet high.
6 It's a few inches beyond my reach.
7 His heart gave a little flutter as the ladder slipped a couple of inches.
8 I'm five feet three inches tall.
9 Twelve inches are equal to one foot.
10 Since I started jogging I've lost three and a half inches from my waistline.
11 McKinnon estimated the lateral movement of the bridge to be between four and six inches.
12 Park about nine inches clear of the kerb.
13 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.
14 "Well, I should like to be a LITTLE larger, sir, if you wouldn't mind," said Alice: "three inches is such a wretched height to be."
15 The storm brought several inches of precipitation.