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Example sentences for "inch apart"

  • Still another way of managing these living puppets is to cut in a piece of cardboard, five inches long and two inches wide, three round holes a little more than half an inch apart.

  • Score the skin in stripes, about a quarter of an inch apart, and rub it with salad oil, as directed in No.

  • Press the soil firmly down; sow thinly and regularly, putting the seeds in about half an inch apart; just cover them with fine soil, and place the pots in a cool frame or greenhouse, with sheets of glass over to prevent evaporation.

  • Put the plants into seed-pans about an inch apart, so that the first leaves just touch the soil, still using a light compost.

  • Press the soil firmly into the pots, making the surface quite even, and in February dibble the seeds separately about an inch apart, and half an inch deep.

  • The vertical lines of division shown on the hub a are also 1/40 of an inch apart, hence the bevelled edge of the sleeve advances one of the divisions on a at each rotation.

  • One turn of the screw, whose threads are 1/10th inch apart, causes one rotation of the dial, the edge of which is divided into one hundred parts, enabling measurements to be made to thousandths of an inch.

  • Repeat this till you have a row of strips across the meat, the strips being about one-third of an inch apart.

  • Put a string of the yolks on both sides of the fish, then along that a string of the whites, and along these a string of the parsley; along the parsley, and about half an inch apart, a string of capers.

  • Long distance crates for mailing cut blooms may be made of slats 3/4-inch apart, with end pieces 6 to 7 inches square, braced in the middle.

  • The larger ones are three feet by four, and four inches deep, with bottoms of lath running lengthwise and placed a quarter of an inch apart.

  • Place the newly peeled bulblets in the drills, about an inch apart, and cover at once with sifted sand, about two inches deep, and then press it down level with the surface.

  • The needle is pointed with each stitch towards the worker, and the stitches are placed about one-eighth of an inch apart.

  • This is done on each width with the rows of running stitches one-fourth of an inch apart.

  • On some materials the stitches can be ¼ or ½ of an inch apart, or taken very close together as we do when we work on white linen and scallop the edges.

  • The knife should be so dull you cannot cut with it, and the strokes not the sixtieth part of an inch apart.

  • Lard with slips of fat salt pork a quarter of an inch apart, and projecting slightly on either side.

  • When the hooks are two thirds of an inch apart, 24 pieces, of 28 yards each, may be suspended at once.

  • Upon the two sides of its breadth, two rows of round brass hooks are placed, about half an inch apart; they are soldered to a copper plate fixed to uprights by means of screws.

  • Score the skin in strips rather more than 1/4 inch apart, and place the joint at a good distance from the fire, on account of the crackling, which would harden before the meat would be heated through, were it placed too near.

  • Choose a small leg of pork, and score the skin across in narrow strips, about 1/4 inch apart.

  • Dip your hands in water and roll the mixture into balls the size of a hickory nut and lay on buttered or waxed paper an inch apart.

  • Bake on waxed or buttered tins, an inch apart.

  • Then scratch a series of radial marks between the circles, a fifth of an inch apart.

  • The marks are about a quarter of an inch apart in an even row as far as the hair, and for three or four marks under it.

  • The 5 spokes should be arranged in horizontal positions about 3/4 inch apart, the end spokes about two inches from the end of the base spokes.

  • Arrange each of the five spokes 3/4 inch apart.


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