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Example sentences for "six feet"

  • I have known them five to six feet high, of a circular conical shape, and a hundred feet round the base.

  • A delightful shower of spray fell for many yards outside the basin, inviting to a bath, which we exquisitely enjoyed; the basin was not more than six feet deep.

  • Before it was time to go to lunch, they had cleared half of a hollow sphere, six feet in diameter, out of the heart of the heap.

  • They drew it out by handfuls, and thus excavated a round tunnel to the distance of six feet or so; when Hugh proceeded to more extended operations.

  • These formed a rank and dense herbaceous, mostly annual vegetation, six feet high, bound together with Cuscuta, climbing Leguminosae, and Ceropegia.

  • Often the cacique's hanging nest is from four to six feet long.

  • This handsome, lustrous, blue-black species is six feet long, shiny, and as clean and smooth as ivory.

  • There is another rock, now nine feet above high-water mark, which in the time of Frezier and Feuillee rose only five or six feet out of water.

  • In fact, it was a pile of roughly hewn stone steps, five or six feet high, with a block of stone at the summit, in which was a hollow about as big as a wash-bowl.

  • There was a two-handed sword, as much as six feet long; but not nearly so ponderous as I have supposed this kind of weapon to be, from reading of it.

  • His firm step, his erect and free carriage, have a military air, which corresponds well with his well-proportioned limbs, and stature of six feet high.

  • The shaft swept down its long curve and shattered its point against a rock at just the right height and about six feet in front of the beast.

  • We fashioned a shelter of young jack pines, constructed like a miniature corral, less than three by six feet in area, but very natural in appearance.

  • Saw or split a piece out of it six feet long, two inches wide, and about an inch thick.

  • The ocean teemed with sharks, some of them being voracious monsters seventy- five feet and even more in length, with a gape of jaw of six feet, as estimated by the size of their enormous sharp-edged teeth.

  • The great eurypterids--some of which were five or six feet in length--and the cephalopods were still masters of the seas.

  • In 1822 the coast of Chile was suddenly raised three or four feet, and the rise was five or six feet a mile inland.

  • I counted three--one large and two others about six feet high.

  • Three large images of Bhudda, carved out of solid rock, occupy the positions in which he is always represented; that in the recumbent posture is fifty-six feet long, cut from one stone.

  • It consisted of the hollow trunk of a tree, six feet in length and about one foot in diameter.

  • It consists of six arches, and is two hundred and seventy-six feet in length.

  • The pedestal is encircled by a second gallery at an elevation of one hundred and sixty-six feet, to reach which you ascend a flight of four hundred and sixty stone steps.

  • Generally the height is about five to six feet, any higher causes too much compaction.

  • When I've finished turning it, the new heap is about five feet high, six feet across at the bottom, and about eight feet long.

  • By October the heap has become about six feet high, sixteen feet long and about seven feet wide at the base.

  • It is of circular form, surrounded by nineteen Corinthian columns, thirty-six feet in height; a clumsy tiled roof now takes the place of the elegant cornice which once gave the crowning charm to its perfect proportions.

  • The roof at first was low, but we shortly came to a branch that opened on the sea, where the arch was forty-six feet in height.

  • In a meadow, near Vienne, stands a curious Roman obelisk, seventy-six feet in height.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    chipped flint; circulating medium; confused mass; dark lantern; eight weeks; graduated income; laid before; naval operations; prohibit slavery; report from; six hours; six hundred; six inches; six months; sixteen dollars; sixteen feet; sixteen hours; sixteen hundred; sixteen inches; sixteen miles; sixteen millions; sixteen years; sixth part; sixty guns; sixty millions; usually elected prime minister