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Example sentences for "nine inches"

  • But large roots are not the best for the table; and it is better to have two medium-sized roots, grown at nine inches apart, than one of perhaps double the size from twice the space.

  • The root is little more than two inches in diameter at the top, tapering gradually to the length of nine inches.

  • Mr. Thompson states that "the drills for the smaller varieties should be about sixteen inches apart, and the plants should be thinned out to nine inches apart in the rows.

  • If the rows are sixteen inches apart, and the plants thinned to nine inches in the row, each plant will have a space equal to a square foot.

  • Its wings are thirty-nine inches across; in its plumage russet predominates, shaded with grey and brown.

  • The leaves are small, measuring from six to nine inches in length, with from nine to seventeen leaflets.

  • Loblolly's leaves are from six to nine inches long, and fall the third year.

  • The leaves are from four to nine inches long, and fall in eight or nine years.

  • Leaves are alternate, from five to nine inches long, with coarse teeth rounded at the top.

  • Three to twelve; on lax pedicels three to nine inches long.

  • The young joints, which are clustered at the ends of the branches, are from three to nine inches long.

  • On the fifth day certain small arrows from five to nine inches in length, and torches, were tied in bundles of four each and placed upon the graves, together with a pair of sweet tamales.

  • It is a cube of hone-stone, nine inches and a quarter in length, by four inches in breadth at its widest extremity.

  • Its height is nine inches, and its greatest circumference, a little below the brim, nineteen inches.

  • It measures forty-nine inches in the blade, five feet nine inches in entire length, and weighs seven and a half pounds.

  • The tail spines varied in length, according to the species, from eight or nine inches to nearly three feet, and some of them have a diameter of six inches at the base.

  • As for teeth, an upper grinder of Elephas columbi in the United States National Museum is ten and one-half inches high, nine inches wide, the grinding face being eight by five inches.

  • This species appears not to have exceeded the existing elephant in bulk, but the tusks are twelve feet nine inches long, and two feet two inches in circumference.

  • They are in variety innumerable, and are those whose flowers are in umbels, on a scape or flower-stalk, rising from three to nine inches.

  • Fruiloni wheels are made with a nave, nine inches long, and three inches in diameter.

  • The spokes should not be more than three and a half inches long from the nave, so that the wheel may not be more than eight or nine inches in diameter.

  • The length is about eight or nine inches, and it is usually found under stones, on the rocky coasts of our island.

  • He is somewhat larger and stronger than the fox; his body of a reddish brown, becoming white below, and the tail rather short, being only about eight or nine inches in length.

  • THIS fish is in length about eight or nine inches, and nearly one in breadth; the body is of a light olive green, inclining to silver white.

  • Its length is nine inches, of which the tail measures three and a half, and the beak one.

  • This bird is rather larger than a thrush, nine inches long of which the tail measures three and a half, and the beak one.

  • The patient, a native of Prague, had swallowed a knife eight or nine inches long, which lay pointing at the superior portion of the stomach.

  • There is in Paris a wax model of a horn, eight or nine inches in length, removed from an old woman by the celebrated Souberbielle.

  • It may just be remarked here that the glass for the Exhibition Building is forty-nine inches long--a size which no country except England is able to furnish in any large quantity, even at the present day.

  • They are described in seed catalogues as nine inches high, but though they really grow rather taller than that, it is not usual to stake them.

  • You can prick them out to where they are to stand, or you can sow in their permanent quarters and thin to nine inches or a foot apart.

  • A cutting should be nine inches long, this year’s growth, hard and woody, but not succulent.

  • Sow the seeds in summer in partial shade, and in moist weather plant out, nine inches apart, where they are to bloom.

  • From another flat stick of the same thickness, nine inches long by one inch wide, make the shuttle (Fig.

  • Make the frame for the loom of a smooth piece of soft pine-board, fifteen inches long by nine inches wide (Fig.

  • Make the heddles of two flat sticks, nine inches long, half an inch wide, and one-eighth of an inch thick (Figs.

  • Besides the two large hoops you will need fourteen small ones about nine inches in diameter.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nine inches" 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:
    called her; cannot expect; exhort them; forty days; get down; good spirit; guide right; handed game; large trade; nine children; nine days; nine different; nine fathoms; nine hours; nine inches; nine lashes; nine months; nine tails; nine tenths; nine weeks; nine years; ninety feet; occasion should; organic disease; really ought; sat down beside her