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Example sentences for "sixteen inches"

  • Have an orchard of 325 apple trees twenty-four years old, eight to sixteen inches in diameter.

  • It is of large size; and, when well grown, often measures fifteen or sixteen inches in diameter, and nine or ten inches in depth.

  • The leaves of this sort are few, and do not exceed twelve to sixteen inches in length.

  • In good cultivation, the roots attain a length of sixteen inches, and a diameter of nearly two inches.

  • Four-ounce cases will be sufficient for wheels of fourteen or sixteen inches in diameter, which is the proportion generally used.

  • Fascines are made of strips of wood, or dry twigs, or wine shoots, which are the best, of the length of fourteen or sixteen inches.

  • In the front of this sun, put a circular vertical wheel, sixteen inches in diameter.

  • Judging from their appearance at a distance, I would say that they are about sixteen inches in diameter and seventy feet in height, and this nearly one hundred miles beyond the Arctic circle.

  • As for jackpine, occasional trees reach twelve to sixteen inches, but only after long immunity from fires, and such trees are too limby for use.

  • The timber consists of black spruce and white birch from five to sixteen inches in diameter.

  • This is sixteen inches in diameter and thirteen in height.

  • A prominent feature is her head-dress, sixteen inches high, the upper part of which is an idol's head crowned with a diadem.

  • It is much larger than the common species, being about fifteen or sixteen inches in length, and having the feathers of the lower part of the back of a deep vermilion.

  • For two fish the globe should be at least a foot in diameter; and for three or four fish, sixteen inches.

  • Of a number of runs (d), which are twelve to sixteen inches long, and radiate in all directions; they are connected with each other by cross passages.

  • The color of its hair is blackish brown; it can project its worm-like tongue to a distance of sixteen inches.

  • It attains a length of sixteen inches, and is found in both Europe and America.

  • The clear of the furnace frame need not exceed sixteen inches high, by eighteen inches wide.

  • Make the ceiling of cardboard ten by sixteen inches, and cut the two gables, one for each end of the roof, like Fig.

  • Cut a scarf of pink chiffon four inches wide and sixteen inches long, fasten one end in each hand of the fairy Queen and let the scarf fall in a graceful loop.

  • Use white passe-partout strips to fasten the box down tight on a light-weight board, twenty-seven by sixteen inches.

  • The length of the wings is sixteen inches.

  • The GREAT BOAT-TAIL (Quiscalus major) is sixteen inches long, and twenty-four broad.

  • The entire length of the male is from fourteen to sixteen inches, ten of which must be allowed for the tail; the length of wing is about six inches from the shoulder to the tip.

  • The only two known species are moderately large birds from fifteen to sixteen inches in length, slenderly formed, but with tolerably strong beaks, the upper mandible reaching far over the lower one.

  • Mr Bourn, who was an enthusiast on the subject, even proposed to have cart and waggon wheels made of cast iron with a breadth of sixteen inches!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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