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Example sentences for "metres high"

  • It forms a circular crater, the ramparts of which, 7,264 metres high, seemed to be inaccessible.

  • At this point rose under their feet the Helicon, 505 metres high, and on the left were the mediocre heights, which inclose a small portion of the Sea of Rains under the name of the Gulf of Iris.

  • It was a circular mountain 4,500 metres high, one of those amphitheatres so numerous upon the satellite.

  • The wooden model of the elephant, covered with plaster, was seventeen metres long and fifteen metres high, counting the tower which the animal bore on its back.

  • The Butte Montmartre is an enormous mass of gypsum, about 125 metres high, and it has furnished century after century the finest kind of plaster, required for the construction of buildings in Paris.

  • Barthélemy erected the stone Pyramid 83 metres high to hold the fine new bells.

  • Cibo's architect carried his west front between 40 and 50 metres high, because the crest and devices of that monarch were preserved in the old work.

  • Directing your eye more towards the South, you discover the mountains of Triberg, and close to them those of Lahr; then comes the loftiest peak of the Black Forest, the Feldberg, 1494 metres high.

  • The central tower is circular at the base, is 20 metres in diameter, and nearly 40 metres high, and has on each side a turret.

  • These remains are in a tolerable state of preservation, and are composed of a central tower, 18 metres high, surrounded by four turrets, and flanked by two other towers connected together by galleries.

  • The central and corner towers are the largest: they are about 13 metres high.

  • The arched door, 3·50 metres high, is set back within a niche 1 metre deep.

  • It is provided with a large window, 2·50 metres high, in the outer wall, opening on to the desert.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    already shown; aquatic plants; billion dollars; ces deux; clever woman; each species; each type; especially applied; first page; five hundred; high place; length said; let you; metres high; metres long; metres wide; plain enough; pleased with; profound impression; servants were; slight excess; thou saidst; true faith; vegetable growth