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Example sentences for "five inches"

  • The polyzoary, which appears to attain a height of four or five inches, is bipinnate (with all the branches on one plane) the branches alternate, and given off with extreme regularity.

  • Colour greyish brown; polypidom 4 to five inches high, much branched, branches irregular, divaricate, rising in great numbers almost immediately from the mass of radical fibres.

  • Habit stiff, stem strong, straight, branches short and crowded--probably attains a height of four or five inches.

  • Blyth mentions a fine male with hair on the shoulders four to five inches long.

  • Head above and at the sides a greyish-brown, darkest on the hind head, where the central hairs are from four to five inches long, while between the shoulders somewhat elongated hairs indicate a short mane.

  • At the head of the Eel River 'the average height of these men was not over five feet four or five inches.

  • Their height rarely exceeds five feet eight inches, and is more frequently five feet four or five inches, and although strongly they are seldom symmetrically built.

  • From two to five inches long, and from one and a half to three inches broad.

  • An earthen cylinder, five inches in diameter and nine inches high, on the top of which is a head, possibly the caricature of a dog, from whose open jaws looks out a tolerably well-formed human face.

  • It is five inches in diameter and four and a half inches high, and the reader will notice a similarity of style between the figures on its front and those carved on the burial relics of Kantunile previously shown.

  • The bases, or pedestals, are fourteen inches in diameter, five inches high, and about fourteen feet apart.

  • Cut the stalks in lengths of four or five inches, and take off the thin skin.

  • Dig up a mellow border, and draw lines at five inches distance, lengthways and across.

  • The above furnace serves for objects up to five inches in diameter; but for larger works a different furnace is required, for the description of which I must refer to the original paper.

  • Their upper end has at its centre an opening of four or five inches diameter, which may be closed afterwards with a wooden cover; this opening is for the purpose of receiving a large funnel.

  • It is a hollow cylinder of copper, from three to five inches in diameter, and about 44 inches long, perforated over its whole surface with holes of about one sixteenth of an inch, placed about a quarter of an inch asunder.

  • A curved stone, five inches long, bearing on it some rudely carved devices (a).

  • The group was formed of some hundreds of piles, four or five inches in diameter, with a cross timbering of branches of various sizes upon a thick layer of heather and moss.

  • When the sprouts are four or five inches high, lift the potato, slip off the sprouts, and plant them.

  • When it has grown two inches, sow plaster as before; and when the buckwheat has grown as large as it will, harrow down and plow under about five inches deep.

  • Take two pounds or more of tender beef steaks, exclusive of the fat and bone, which must be omitted; the steaks from the sirloin end, cut less than an inch thick, and not larger than four or five inches square.

  • Have ready some small tin pans, about four or five inches square, and two or three inches deep.

  • To make a paste flower roll out a straight narrow slip of paste, about four or five inches wide.

  • Make it out of a piece of deal eighteen inches long, five inches wide, and half an inch thick.

  • It is simply an oblong box made of tin or any piece of thin metal you may have, and should be one inch and a quarter wide by five inches long, and about three-quarters of an inch deep.

  • The centrals are from three to five inches long.

  • The central spines number six to ten, from one to five inches long, and are flattened with the lower thorns a brownish purple.

  • The large flowers are bright yellow and grow four or five inches in length, narrow and funnel-shaped, about two inches across.

  • It was an old family relic with a black ebony handle and a finely tempered steel blade four or five inches in length.

  • As a matter of fact the sand was only four or five inches deep in most places, and underneath was solid coral rock.

  • The big turtles came up with the full tide, and at once made nests for themselves on the beach by scraping out with their hind- flippers a hole about ten inches deep and five inches in diameter.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five 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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