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Example sentences for "several inches"

  • It tends to spread, and may involve an area of one or several inches.

  • Like the Phyllium, the Phasma lives exclusively on vegetables, and some attain the length of several inches.

  • These, when the hollow was completed to the depth of several inches, were partially replaced in the excavation after being agglutinated to form partitions between the eggs, as they were deposited within.

  • Nietner as occasionally "moving by jumps of several inches at a spring.

  • Nietner as "moving by jumps of several inches at a spring.

  • A fine species, growing in loosely-branched phytoid fronds, to a height of several inches.

  • Frond divided into numerous strap-shaped, truncated segments, of various widths; it attains a height of several inches.

  • This species is parasitic, and appears to attain a height of several inches.

  • It ranged from fractions of an inch to several inches.

  • Some genera attain the length of several inches, or even feet; others are very small tufts growing on shells and seaweeds.

  • Its progression is effected by leaps which it is enabled to make by reaching far out with its foot, then suddenly twisting to one side and throwing the shell several inches.

  • Already a piece of stick, several inches in length, had been fixed to the small of the stock, and, of course, behind the trigger.

  • The ground was covered with these reddish-brown creatures, in some spots to the depth of several inches.

  • Some largish rounded masses occur, several inches in diameter, and rising to a thickness of three-fourths of an inch.

  • Note the narrow tapering head, overhanging the lower jaw by several inches, the position and shape of the dorsal fin and the distinctive "hump" on the leading margin of the flippers.

  • The head of mature males is extremely "squarish" and may overhang the lower jaw by several inches (right).

  • In very old males the melon may overhang the mouth up to several inches.

  • Drop this mixture by the large spoonful on to buttered plates, several inches apart, sprinkle small sugar plums on the top, and bake them directly.

  • Drop the mixture on to buttered plates, in parcels of the size of a cent, several inches apart.

  • When light, drop this mixture by the large spoonful on to flat, buttered tins, several inches apart.

  • When the almonds are well mixed in, drop the mixture in small parcels on buttered baking plates, several inches apart, sift sugar over them, and bake them in a slow oven.

  • In Java, 300 miles away, ashes filled the air so thickly that the solar rays could not penetrate them, and fell to the depth of several inches.

  • Rocks were split and shattered by the heat, and stones fell to the depth of several inches in Yeddo (now Tokyo), sixty miles away.

  • The quantity of matter ejected was such as to cover the ground and the roofs of the houses at Denamo to the depth of several inches.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "several 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:
    ancient custom; found native; good taste; great mercy; own eyes; several cases; several churches; several cities; several families; several instances; several kinds; several months; several occasions; several other; several parts; several passages; several people; several plants; several specimens; several things; several thousand; several times; several ways; several writers; several years; taking place