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Example sentences for "quarter inch"

  • Put them in a shallow earthen dish, with enough water to fill the dish a quarter inch deep.

  • The lime is generally used in the form of a cylinder seven-eighths of an inch diameter and one and a quarter inch long, having a hole along its centre from end to end; these cylinders are sold in tin boxes, each containing twelve.

  • This band is to be one and a quarter inch deep, and the diameter just enough to allow of the back end of the nozzle-tube fitting in it very tightly when the lantern is used in the ordinary way.

  • The cylinders should be one and three-quarter inch bore by two and a half inch stroke, which will give sufficient power to drive the engine at a high rate of speed, with 30 lb.

  • In size they vary from one-quarter inch to five inches in length.

  • The tread is four to five inches wide, the flange (one to one and one-quarter inch high) increasing this to five and one-half to seven inches.

  • The coherer consisted of a small glass tube not more than, say, two inches long by one-quarter inch in diameter, into the ends of which were fused two platinum wires leading to small metallic electrodes.

  • A good farm set consists of stock and dies to thread all the different sizes of pipe from one-quarter inch to one inch, inclusive.

  • The nuts are countersunk into the cross pieces by boring holes about one-quarter inch deep.

  • Measure an inch and a half, then turn the material under so that a three-quarter inch piece is under the left side of the waist line.

  • When the threads of the four sides have been drawn fold back one eighth of an inch, then make a double fold so that the hem is just one-quarter inch wide.

  • Pull a quarter inch of threads then leave a half inch of material.

  • Be sure that the space between each two lines is a quarter inch, no more or no less.

  • When finished let the box measure three and one-half inches square and one and one-quarter inch high.

  • The upper face is divided into quadrants by four narrow lines radiating from the hole, and each quadrant is divided into two by bands one-quarter inch broad.

  • The shaft is of pine and the disk of spruce and is ornamented with black lead marks, forming a border about one-quarter inch broad on each face.

  • This is a circle about one-quarter inch in diameter, described as accurately as if done with compasses, with a deeply incised dot exactly in the center.

  • The frame is made of four strips of pine wood, two inches wide, one inch thick on the outside, and three quarter inch on the inside, making a quarter inch bevel on the inside edge of the face; these are nailed together and glued.

  • Knead dough well and then roll out one-quarter inch on slightly floured pastry board.

  • Roll out one-quarter inch thick; cut with doughnut cutter.

  • Turn on a floured moulding board and either roll or pat out one and one-quarter inch thick.

  • Now roll out one-quarter inch thick, using a rolling pin.

  • Form lightly and quickly with hand into dough; roll out on slightly floured board, about one-quarter inch thick.

  • Form with the hand into dough and roll out on a floured board to quarter inch thickness.

  • A piece of three-quarter inch board, seven to nine inches wide, must then be screwed underneath, the grain crossing the other; the doorway for the bees being of course between the two.

  • The holes may be one and a quarter inch in diameter at the larger end, tapering two inches down to a point.

  • Make baseboards in each room out of three-quarter inch strips, and picture mouldings out of strips an eighth of an inch wide.

  • The board is first placed in a vise and the wood removed to about one-quarter inch of AB with a compass-saw, following the curve of the line as nearly as possible.


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