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Example sentences for "eight feet"

  • It is compelled to maintain a gradient of eight feet to the mile in western Nebraska.

  • The Glyptodon was a mailed edentate, eight feet long, resembling the little armadillo.

  • Descending from any elevation one finds oneself at once involved at any and every point in a maze of narrow, crowded streets of high brick and stone houses, mostly from five to eight feet wide.

  • I found the actual water was fifty feet long, by eight feet wide, and four feet deep; the rocks in which the water lies are more than twenty feet high.

  • In a kind of gully between the hills, at four and a half miles, I found a rock-hole full of water in a triodia creek; it was seven or eight feet deep, and almost hidden amongst rocks and scrubs.

  • At six miles before camping we crossed a tributary joining the Finke at right angles from the west, where there are some ranges in that direction; a slight stream was running down the bed.

  • Skis are usually made of ash and the standard lengths are from six to eight feet.

  • A standard rink must be at least one hundred and twelve feet long by fifty-eight feet wide.

  • Another very good sweeper can be made from a piece of wood about six or eight feet long to which several thicknesses of bagging have been tacked or fastened.

  • On deeper and somewhat drier soils, corn roots went down as far as eight feet.

  • In this case water had undoubtedly passed by capillary movement from the depth of eight feet to a point near the surface where direct evaporation could occur.

  • The fallow It may be safely concluded that a large portion of the water that falls as rain or snow may be stored in the soil to considerable depths (eight feet or more).

  • These ligneous ridges sometimes separate from the trunk at a height of eight feet, and are transformed into cylindrical roots two feet thick.

  • The bark of the fruit produces a strong lather; and the fruit is so elastic that if thrown on a stone it rebounds three or four times to the height of seven or eight feet.

  • Its greatest height was about seven or eight feet, but it gradually sloped on both sides, and its length might be about twenty yards.

  • Their houses are low miserable huts, constructed by setting sticks upright in the ground, at six or eight feet distance, then bending them towards each other, and tying them together at the top, forming thereby a kind of Gothic arch.

  • Its length was between seven and eight feet; its flesh was good and thought to resemble beef.

  • They have a black bare stem, from one to eight feet high, surmounted by a tuft of half rushes and half grass, out of which, again, grows a long thing exactly like a huge bullrush.

  • The outer fence, from six to eight feet high, was constructed of lighter materials.

  • Remember that I am not speaking of an oblong, but of a figure equal every way, and twice the size of this--that is to say of eight feet; and I want to know whether you still say that a double square comes from double line?

  • It was no less than sixty-eight feet long, five wide, and three feet six inches high.

  • Their war-vessels contained from forty to fifty armed men, and one of them, measured at Ulaga, was no less than sixty-eight feet long.

  • It grows to the height of six or eight feet, and even more, with numerous long, spreading branches.

  • The shops themselves are mere cubicles, from eight to ten feet wide and seldom more than from six to eight feet deep.

  • Kutab was a viceroy when he began this splendid column, two hundred and thirty-eight feet high, with a base diameter of forty-seven feet three inches.

  • The width of the buttresses is eight feet, and their projection a little more than a foot.

  • None were discovered at Mugheir nearer the surface than seven or eight feet.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    controversy between; eight bars; eight bells; eight books; eight cents; eight companies; eight fathom; eight fathoms; eight grains; eight hundred; eighteen hours; eighteen hundred and fifty; eighteen months; eighteen shillings; eighteen thousand; eighteenth century; eighth chapter; eighth inch; eighth part; eighths inch; eighty feet; eighty yards; knead well; made signs; private bill; readily seen