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Example sentences for "eighteen inches"

  • The early varieties may be set as closely as eighteen inches in the row, and twenty-four between rows.

  • The earliest, smooth varieties are planted in drills twelve to eighteen inches apart, early in April.

  • For only a few trees it would probably answer the purpose to dig out large holes and fill in a foot or eighteen inches at the bottom with small stone, covered with gravel or screened coal-cinders.

  • ROOT CROPS Under the first section we will consider: Beet Carrot Kohlrabi Leek Onion Parsnip Potato Salsify Turnip Any of these may be sown in April, in drills (with the exception of potatoes) twelve to eighteen inches apart.

  • Each web was about five feet long, and fifteen or eighteen inches wide.

  • Across these are placed about fifteen wooden keys, each of which is two or three inches broad, and fifteen or eighteen inches long.

  • Most frequently they measured from twelve to eighteen inches in diameter.

  • Except in the deep depressions between them, the dunes are everywhere sprinkled, to a considerable height, with brown oxydulated iron, which has penetrated into the sand to the depth of from three to eighteen inches, and colored it red.

  • The bunches are sixteen or eighteen inches long, and weigh six or seven pounds.

  • One of these Giant Bisnaga has been growing in the University of Arizona gardens for thirty-five years, is only about two feet tall and eighteen inches through, even after the lapse of a third of a century.

  • They form in hemispherical mounds as wide as eighteen inches, with the larger stems suggesting a pineapple.

  • These large clumps have forty or more stems in mounds five feet or so across, and from six to eighteen inches tall, with one or more large stems in the center of each mound.

  • This covering, which falls from the pole a foot to eighteen inches, is the source of air when moved.

  • About two feet below the top a long, straight beam of stone, from a foot to eighteen inches wide, rests in mortises of the upright posts.

  • It is certainly odd to see a man pull from his pocket a string about a foot or eighteen inches in length and take from it one to half a dozen annas with bored-out centers.

  • The pyramids are all built of rough stones, clay, and earth, faced on the outside with hewn blocks from eighteen inches to two feet long, laid in mortar.

  • It grows in clusters, two to eighteen inches long, one half of an inch to one inch wide.

  • They range in length from eight to eighteen inches.

  • The cones are from ten to eighteen inches long.

  • Black jack oak at its best may attain a height of fifty feet and a diameter of eighteen inches, but it is oftener twenty feet high and six inches through.

  • Few trunks east of the Allegheny mountains are more than eighteen inches in diameter.

  • Make a box, a foot high, eighteen inches wide, and about three inches deep.

  • Shake the upright open right hand four to eight inches from side to side a few times, from twelve to eighteen inches in front of the chin, the palm forward, fingers relaxed and a little separated.

  • These boxes stand upon trestles, with a descent varying from eight to eighteen inches in twelve feet.

  • The width is usually sixteen or eighteen inches; and never exceeds five feet.

  • It is a stout-bodied fish, about fifteen or eighteen inches long, of a light yellow color, and gayly ornamented with stripes and spots.

  • They consist of about five feet of the bark of a tree fifteen or eighteen inches in diameter.

  • The roots are from three to four inches in diameter, and from twelve to eighteen inches long.

  • In the spring the coarsest of the covering is raked off, and between the rows is dug a space about a foot or eighteen inches wide, which serves as a path for the pickers.

  • The plants should be set, the large-growing sorts two feet from each other in the row, the smaller ones from twelve to eighteen inches.

  • The heads were from eight to eighteen inches in diameter nearly flat, hard, sweet, and tender in quality; few waste leaves; stump short.

  • They never give the right size (namely one-sixth of an inch) which corresponds to an eye-to-frame distance of eighteen inches.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eighteen inches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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