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Example sentences for "inch across"

  • One plan adopted is to use a punch which, when driven into the bar, gives a core or rod of metal about half as long as the bar is thick and about one-eighth of an inch across.

  • When the action becomes sluggish, dilute with an equal bulk of water, and add a weighed piece of zinc rod about 1 inch long and quarter-inch across.

  • The flowers are not very showy, being of a yellowish-white colour and about an inch across.

  • When fully expanded they are an inch across, and somewhat reflexed.

  • The flowers are pale pink edged with a deeper tint, about an inch across, and borne in terminal and axillary clusters.

  • This bears white flowers that are of good substance, and about an inch across.

  • The flower measures about 1 inch across, is white, rather waxlike in appearance, with numerous golden-yellow stamens in the center.

  • They are slender stemmed, about 1 inch across, with a wheel shaped, 4-parted corolla The seeds are contained in a much compressed capsule.

  • The flower with its eight oblong, spreading white petals measures about 1 inch across, and is borne at the summit of a slender stalk arising from the root.

  • The flowers have seven to ten sepals, are an inch across, and of a creamy white colour.

  • The flowers are small, about a fifth of an inch across, solitary, axillary, on stalks shorter than the leaves.

  • The flowers are usually nearly half an inch across, of a pink colour; and the petals are not notched.

  • The flowers are about a quarter of an inch across, of a light blue or lilac colour, striped with dark blue veins; and appear from May to July.

  • Its flowers are bright blue, about a quarter of an inch across, solitary, axillary, on stalks which are longer than the leaves.

  • The flowers, which measure less than an inch across, often grow along one side of an axis as well as in the usual raceme.

  • The corolla, which is flat, round, about an inch across, and deeply cleft into five pointed petals, has the effect of a miniature pinwheel in motion.

  • Rarely the solitary flowers, that are an inch across or more, are a deep, rich violet.

  • It is about an inch deep, and an inch across; and from a little distance, appears more like a small knot upon the branch than like a bird's nest.

  • The nest or house which I saw was a tube made of very hard clay, about six inches long, and an inch across, and was a little bent at one end.

  • The flowers are about an inch across, with delicately crumpled, white petals and yellow anthers, forming a bright golden center, and the plants look very pretty standing along the edges of ponds.

  • Make a green calyx like the one for the white daisy but much smaller, not over an inch across.

  • Cut from deep-yellow tissue paper eight circles three inches across, six circles two inches, and six an inch across.

  • The one in the centre should be an inch across and an inch and a half high, the two on each side of it an inch and a half wide and two inches high, and the outer ones each two inches wide and two and a half inches high.

  • The opened flowers, somewhat less than an inch across, have five petals, two sepals, and five golden stamens that mature before the stigma.

  • The branches usually divide near their ends, each division bearing a beautiful flower about an inch across.

  • They are quite large, measuring about an inch across; the 30 to 40 narrow rays are of a purplish color, often quite bright.

  • The pale-yellow flowers measure from 1/2 to 1 inch across; they are in loose, terminal clusters or from the angles of the upper leaves.

  • The corolla of this is often half an inch long and half an inch across, of an orange-yellow, with deeper orange spots in the throat.

  • Stigma button-shaped; many-rayed; four lines to an inch across.

  • The male catkin is almost round, a quarter of an inch across, and contains about half a dozen yellow anthers, the base surrounded by dry overlapping scales.

  • They are about a quarter of an inch across, with four petals and four stamens or stigmas.

  • The flowers are succeeded by globose little fruits, each about a quarter of an inch across, yellow, and covered with pale down.

  • It is a clean, bright little shell, upwards of an inch across.

  • The interior is white, and the shell about half an inch across.

  • There are two other Natica found in New Zealand, neither of which exceeds one-third of an inch across, and in shape are very like the N.

  • It is upwards of an inch across, and found in large numbers amongst rocks, especially at the entrance to harbours, and from half-tide mark downwards.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inch across" 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:
    full load; great abilities; haste away; inch columbiad; inch from the edge; inch lengths; inch mortar; inch ordnance; inch piece; inch pipe; inch pots; inch rifles; inch thick; inches across; inches broad; inches deep; inches high; inches tall; join them; lest thou; little afraid; little heart; little mistress; remove from the fire; second son; zinc ointment