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Example sentences for "half wide"

  • This most exquisite piece of sculpture is of small dimensions, being only seven and three quarter inches high, by five and a half wide.

  • The original is six inches and one-fourth high by five inches and a half wide.

  • The cones are about three or four inches long, and two and a half wide, growing in close, sessile clusters among the leaves.

  • Prepare a bed four feet and a half wide, spade it thoroughly over, rake the surface smooth and fine, and sow the seed in drills fourteen inches apart.

  • For a doll six or eight inches long the front piece will need to be about five inches long by an inch and a half wide.

  • Cut a piece of plain-coloured cotton eight inches long by four and a half wide, and lay the bunches of tape all along it, about an inch apart.

  • One that I measured was fifty-one feet long, and only one foot and a half wide at the top.

  • The lower portion of the side-board is enclosed with two doors two inches high by an inch and one-half wide.

  • The Front Wall= is made in two sections, each hinged to a strip of wood an inch and one-half wide nailed to the two edges of the house, as shown in Fig.

  • The lower portion of the side-board is inclosed with two doors two inches high by an inch and one-half wide.

  • Then cut a slot in the bottom of the boiler six inches long by an inch and a half wide, commencing a quarter of an inch from the forward end of the boiler.

  • This copper is to be worked into the shape of a felt hat, with a crown three-quarters of an inch high, and one and a half wide.

  • Make a hole right through the top block one inch and a half wide.

  • The upper hive ought to be furnished with two or three slats, about an inch and a half wide, and fastened one third of the distance from the top, so as to give the bees every opportunity to cluster.

  • According to the account in the Gaceta, the stones that form the tops of the many niches shown in the cut are from five and a half to seven feet long, four to five and a half wide, and four to nine inches thick.

  • From the centre of each side a gallery thirty feet long, seven and a half feet high, and four feet and a half wide, with a regular arch, leads to the open air.

  • One of the latter six feet long, four feet and a half wide, and eighteen inches thick, was sketched by Castaneda, together with a circular stone three varas and a half in circumference.

  • Next to the dresser are two large sinks, three feet and a half long, two and a half wide, and one foot and a half deep, with two taps for hot and cold water.

  • To proceed, then: For the front piece take a board a half-inch thick, three and three quarters inches high, and two and a half wide.

  • Now take a block an inch thick, four inches long, and two and a half wide, to hold the wheels.

  • Fruit, large, three inches and a half wide, and about three inches high; ovato-conical.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "half wide" 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:
    black above; brown eyes; good profit; half afraid; half fathoms; half feet; half glass; half hidden; half hour; half laughing; half leagues; half lemon; half mile; half million; half natural; half parts; half past; half rations; half speed; half tablespoonful; half teaspoonful; half times; half whisper; half years; high voice; took much