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Example sentences for "inches long"

  • Or the footprints, in sandstone, near Carson, Nevada--each print 18 to 20 inches long.

  • Notice of a stone ax, 17 inches long: 9 inches across broad end.

  • Thus, if the card were 7 inches long, we get 7 × .

  • Cut in strips 1/4 inch wide and 4 to 6 inches long.

  • Then cut the cake into halves, and cut each half into narrow strips about 1 inch wide and 4 1/2 inches long.

  • Cook gently until the sirup (when dropped from a spoon) "spins a thread" 3 inches long.

  • The levers, 14 inches long, project from the frame and strike the floor much as a flail would.

  • A cast-iron maple sap spout, about 3 inches long, used for gathering the sap into buckets.

  • Sap spouts, made of cedar, about 15 inches long.

  • A roque mallet has a dogwood head 9-1/2 inches long, with heavy nickel ferrules.

  • The game is played with a mallet, the head of which is usually ash, dogwood, or persimmon, and has a handle about 50 inches long.

  • Illustration: How to lay out a baseball field] The pitcher's box should be denoted by a strip of wood or rubber 24 inches long and 6 inches wide.

  • When the sawed-out parts are removed you will have a "tongue" in the end of the frame timber 4 inches long and 1/2 inch thick.

  • This rudder beam is 8 feet 11 inches long.

  • Take a thin metal sleeve--this is merely a hollow tube of aluminum or brass open at each end--8 inches long, and slip it over either the tongued or grooved end of one of the frame timbers.

  • The broad one is very readily made from a piece of an old scythe, about 18 inches long, by any blacksmith, by simply taking off the back, and forming a shank for a handle at the heel.

  • Munro now objects that among the objects reckoned by me as analogous to churinga is a perforated stone with an incised line, and smaller slanting side lines, said to have been found at Dumbuck; "9 inches long, 3.

  • A Take-Off may be made of a plank or board, 8 inches wide and 36 inches long, sunk flush with the earth.

  • The stay-blocks "B" should be 12 inches long.

  • A pot lifter may be made from a green stick about 18 inches long, allowing a few inches of a stout branch to remain.

  • Now cut up the head into pieces about two inches long, and simmer them in the soup till the meat and fat are quite tender.

  • Skin and wash the eels, cut them into pieces 2 inches long, and line the bottom of the pie-dish with forcemeat.

  • The tiponi is a ceremonial object about 18 inches long, consisting of feathers set upright around a small disk of silicified wood, which serves as its base when set upon the altar.

  • Hasjelti rubbed the invalid with the horn of a mountain sheep held in the left hand, and in the right hand a piece of hide, about 10 inches long and 4 wide, from between the eyes of the sheep.

  • The reeds were cut with a stone knife some 3½ inches long.

  • The heel of the weapon is a blunt spike 14 inches long, used to stick it in the ground, and this, as well as the lower third of the blade, is ornamented with brass work.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "inches long" 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:
    certain specified; dated from; faced girl; formidable army; good terms; habit formation; hour afterward; inches apart; inches broad; inches deep; inches from; inches high; inches long; inches square; inches tall; inches wide; nearly horizontal; one and; rapid succession; said when; say about; small octavo; specie payment; story about; strange tongue; white background