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Example sentences for "half inch"

  • One-fourth or one-half inch is a good depth for most coarse seeds in-doors.

  • The points of these triangular portions are inserted in the soil a half inch or so, the cutting standing erect or nearly so.

  • Wheat, peas and other seeds have been carried through so many as seven germinations after the radicle had grown a half inch or more and the seeds had been sufficiently dried in each trial to render them fit for grinding.

  • For proper mechanical strength, slab should be of a thickness consistent with the size and weight of the rheostat, and in no case to be less than one-half inch.

  • No conduit smaller than one-half inch electrical-trade size shall be used.

  • When there are exposed live-metal parts on the back of a board, a space of at least one-half inch must be provided between such live metal parts and the cabinet in which the board is mounted.

  • Toss on a small floured board, roll lightly to one-half inch in thickness.

  • Roll one-half inch thick, cut in squares, or with biscuit cutter, and lay in on top of stew.

  • The fat on the best grade of ribs should be about one-half inch deep.

  • In order to prevent a too rapid and tangled growth of vine, it is customary to resand the bog every three or four years to a depth of one-fourth or one-half inch.

  • In dry weather, a sodded area may be mulched with a half inch of fine loam to protect it.

  • Whatever method is used, if cuttings are to be transplanted after rooting, it is important to pot them off in small pots as soon as they have a cluster of roots one-half inch or an inch long.

  • C-milk Soak a one-half inch slice of ham in one cup of lukewarm milk for half an hour.

  • When tender, drain, cut in lengthwise slices one-half inch thick, and lay in a buttered pan.

  • Pat into a rectangular shape, one-half inch thick, on a floured board.

  • Pat into a square shape one-half inch thick.

  • To make the filling for a dozen timbales, remove bones and skin from a pint bowlful of the white or white and dark meat mixed of cold boiled or roasted chicken, and cut in half inch pieces.

  • Dust with salt and pepper and put in another layer of seasoned potatoes and enough boiling water to stand one-half inch deep in the dish.

  • The bottoms are best covered with wire netting with meshes about one-half inch square.

  • The adult is a longicorn beetle, of slender, cylindrical form, over one-half inch in length and about one-eighth of an inch in width.

  • Gift packages, holding ten or twenty pounds or even more, should be made of half inch stuff at least, with ends three-quarters or one inch thick.

  • The insect is a small, brownish-black snout beetle, somewhat less than one-half inch in length.

  • The cylinders should be one and three-quarter inch bore by two and a half inch stroke, which will give sufficient power to drive the engine at a high rate of speed, with 30 lb.

  • Magic-lanterns, the condensing lenses of which are from one and a half inch to two and a half inches in diameter, are calculated to produce discs of light from four feet to six feet in diameter.

  • The driving-wheels are eight and a quarter inches in diameter, and the leading wheels five and a quarter inches, and about six and a half inch gauge, viz.

  • The cylinders come next, and should be, as previously mentioned, an inch and three-quarters bore by two and a half inch stroke.

  • A half inch opening is made from F to F, just above the alighting board, for the ingress and egress of the bees.

  • The cion is made with about two and one-half inches of internode below the bud and one-half inch above, a sharp knife being the best tool for making the cuts.

  • Some of the Chinese guns were ten and a half inch.

  • There were altogether sixty-four guns, some of large calibre, four being ten and a half inch.

  • The cones are very small, about a half inch in length, growing singly from the lower side of the branchlet.

  • Some are one-half inch in length, others are three inches.

  • The yew-like leaves of Florida torreya are one and a half inch or less in length.

  • The leaves are from one-quarter to one-half inch in length.

  • Cut into chunks from one-half inch to one inch cubes.

  • Place in a meat can with about one-half inch of cold water.

  • A piece of tarred paper five or six inches square, should be placed on the soil in the bottom of the nest; the whole covered with a half inch of finely cut straw.

  • I then take a one-half inch board, four feet long (to correspond with the length of opening in front of brooder) and six inches wide.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    but she said nothing; during the breeding season; half after; half aloud; half centuries; half cupful; half days; half dollar; half from; half full; half gallon; half high; half inch; half inclined; half miles; half pint; half pounds; half rations; half share; half tablespoon; half teaspoon; half the; kingly government; merely subjective; spherical form; when milk