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Example sentences for "inches across"

  • This year it has been very pretty in the unusual profusion of its bluish-tinted flowers, each of which are about 2 inches across.

  • Put 1 gram of the ore in an evaporating dish 4 inches across, and cover with 10 c.

  • These cupels are square blocks, a little less than 2 inches across, and a little more than three quarters of an inch deep.

  • The scorification assay is performed in a scorifier, which is a shallow open-mouthed dish about 2-1/2 inches across, with a very thick bottom to enable it to withstand the corrosive action of the slag.

  • The coarse flowers are about two inches across, with a clammy smell like toadstools, and the bracts are dead white.

  • The handsome flowers are over three inches across, bright purplish-blue, the sepals veined with darker color and marked with a white stripe.

  • The lower 2 feet of this cavity was uniformly 7 inches across; above this it slightly expanded, funnel-like, to a diameter of 8 inches at the top.

  • On the gravel was dry clay, seamed and fissured in all directions so that it fell out under the pick in clods like angular pebbles from an inch to 3 or 4 inches across.

  • The flower bracts are of large size, often 6 inches across, the individual bracts being broad and white, and fully 2-1/2 inches long.

  • The large yellow flowers are often about 2 inches across, and produced singly along the branches, while the leaves are large, lobed, and of an enticing shade of green.

  • The large, handsome flowers, 2 to 4 inches across, are in full bloom before or just as the leaves commence to appear.

  • But one usually blooms at a time and there are not a great many buds; what they lack in profusion of bloom this species fully makes up in size, for its blossoms measure 4 to 6 inches across.

  • I have seen them composed almost wholly of reed-leaves, fully 7 inches in diameter and 5 in height, and again built entirely of fine grass-stems not more than 4 inches across and 3 inches in height.

  • The cap is nearly 4 inches across, the flesh is white.

  • There are many large-sized mushrooms in this tribe, the cap sometimes measuring 6 inches across.

  • It generally measures 2 to 3 inches across, and is of a pale brown color.

  • The leaves are 3 to 5 inches across, simple, opposite, with 3 to 5 pointed and sparsely-toothed lobes, the divisions between the lobes being rounded.

  • The dark purple, attractive flowers appear with the leaves singly or in two's along the branch, measure nearly 2 inches across, and produce nectar which attracts the bees.

  • Alexandrae, 2 to 3 feet high, with pure white flowers, 6 to 8 inches across in July and August.

  • They grow about 18 inches high, and have cup-shaped flowers 3 inches across, having three very large and three very small segments.

  • In their beds occur reddish flinty concretions, up to 3 inches across in size, and magnetic iron sand in great abundance.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inches 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:
    best recollection; certain portion; common with; electoral votes; four months; general laugh; great stir; inches across; inches apart; inches deep; inches diameter; inches from; inches square; inches thick; inches wide; major premise; never seemed; obtained leave; opened unto; proved himself; she never; she repeated; sixteen guns; strong froth; toward evening; true repentance