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Example sentences for "six inches"

  • This repeated over the whole plot will stir the soil sixteen or eighteen inches deep, and put from four to six inches of the top, manure and all, in the bottom, under the other.

  • Cover with earth from three to six inches deep, letting the roots protrude.

  • The shoots should be regularly cut just below the surface, when they are four or six inches high.

  • The roots are carefully lifted and planted as closely as possible on this bed, and covered with fine soil to a depth of six inches.

  • When the seedlings appear give protection if necessary, and in due course thin the plants to six inches apart in the rows.

  • Put in the seeds two inches deep and six inches apart, in rows one foot apart.

  • Some of the smaller and more delicate Beets, of a very dark colour, may be sown in drills a foot or fifteen inches apart and thinned to six inches distance in the drills.

  • Thin out the plants to six inches apart in the rows and allow them to stand until the following spring, when they may be transplanted to permanent beds.

  • An open ditch is, however, far better replaced by vitrified tile, six inches in diameter, which entirely prevents surface pollution, and which costs only about ten cents a running foot.

  • The diameter of piston is four inches and the length of stroke is six inches.

  • This cross line should be six inches in diameter as a general rule, unless there is more than a mile of small drains, in which case the size of the cross pipe ought to be increased to eight inches.

  • These were circular, from four to six inches in diameter, about 1/16 inch thick, slightly concave and pierced with small holes, something like the modern kitchen skimmer.

  • They are three to six inches in length, with an acuminate apex, somewhat attenuate at the base, with very short petioles which are united with the short interpetiolar stipules at the base.

  • The horns of some of the Elk have not yet fallen off, and those of others have shotten out to the length of six inches.

  • The horns of Some of the Elk have not yet fallen off and those of others have Grown to the length of Six inches.

  • I dont supose you ever tried to make a blanket roll in the pitch dark an six inches of mud.

  • Six inches of alternate half-inch stripes of dark blue and white.

  • Border, half-inch stripes of medium blue and brown alternated for six inches.

  • Border of six inches of brown and yellow, twisted together.

  • The parapet was about two feet six inches thick at the top and quite steep inside, being built up of pieces of broken ant-heap, which were nearly as hard as stone.

  • By evening we had quite a decent trench dug--the parapet was about two feet six inches thick at the top, and was quite bullet-proof, as I tested it.

  • She is half a head taller than I, and it would be no fun if everybody grew from two to six inches.

  • Mrs Quantock had been walking on her toes all across the hall, in anticipation of the happy time when she would be from two to six inches taller.

  • It's the most wonderful invention, and increases your height, whatever your age is, from two to six inches.

  • Polypidom five or six inches high, rising with a strong, tapering, longitudinally grooved stem, which is sometimes sparingly branched, but more commonly simple.

  • The polypidom is five or six inches high, perhaps more; stem slender, branches long, divaricate at rightangles, not opposite.

  • Forms fine bushy tufts, with long wavy branches, arising from a short common stem, and it attains a height of five or six inches.

  • The sun had just risen, and was shining brightly (after a stormy night) on the snow which covered the ground to the depth of six inches.

  • B and C are twenty-six inches apart, C and D forty-eight inches and D and E twenty-six inches.

  • So I went down to Quogue with one of my assistants and saw there for miles large beds of black sand on the beach in layers from one to six inches thick--hundreds of thousands of tons.

  • A standard form of note-book, about eight and a half by six inches, containing about two hundred pages, was adopted.

  • It may then be spread on the floor of an open shed, and when somewhat firm it may be cut into cakes of six inches square.

  • The beds are all ridge-shaped, eighteen to twenty inches wide at the base, eighteen to twenty inches high in the middle, six inches wide at top, and the sides sloping.

  • The bed was made of horse droppings, six inches deep, and molded over with fresh loam one and one-half inch deep.

  • The rows should be two feet apart, or thirty-six inches, if irrigating by running water in each row as it is done in California.

  • In the garden, where the design is to raise a few fine bushes for home use merely, let the rows be two feet apart and the cuttings six inches apart in the row.

  • The advice has been given to cut the taproots back to five or six inches, but under general average climatic conditions throughout the pecan region anyone who follows this advice will have reason to regret it.

  • Grafts are generally cut about five or six inches long, and should be from one-quarter to three-eighths of an inch in thickness.

  • I plant my orchard to corn for four years and use an eight-tooth cultivator; cease cropping when the trees are four or six inches in diameter; plant clover in a bearing orchard.

  • I am successful in storing apples in barrels in an earth cave five feet deep, earth sides and roof; keep it open when not freezing; apples can be stored in bulk by leaving a space of six inches at the sides and bottom.

  • Have an apple orchard of 110 trees, thirteen years old, six inches in diameter.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "six 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:
    divine religion; fell silent; good hand; name applied; off the; operative movement; six feet; six hours; six hundred; six inches; six miles; six months; six weeks; sixteen feet; sixteen hundred; sixteen millions; sixth chapter; sixth dynasty; sixth year; sixty degrees; sixty dollars; sixty feet; sixty miles; sixty millions; then should; this word