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Example sentences for "ten feet"

  • On these flats we again met with large ant-hills, six to ten feet high, and eight feet in circumference; the land at the base was of a reddish colour.

  • Inside the bank the water is ten feet deep.

  • Cunningham manuscript) which formed a small robust tree, ten feet high, laden with ripe fruit.

  • It is high water at full and change at eight o'clock, and the tide rises from five to ten feet.

  • It is the most beautiful stream I know of, being cool and transparent, averaging a depth of eight or ten feet, and running upon a hard sandy bottom.

  • Within this circle he made another, of about eight or ten feet in diameter.

  • The first, or south room, ten feet by eighteen, was fitted for storing fruit, and afforded a stairway to the rooms above, which were four in number besides the bath.

  • Make it ten feet by fifteen, inside measure, and you can easily run five two-hundred-egg incubators.

  • At the other end of the building, ten feet on each side was given over to hospital purposes,--a lying-in ward ten feet by thirteen being on each side of the driveway.

  • In vain I shouted for the men; and I followed the elephant with an empty rifle for about ten minutes, until he suddenly turned round, and stood facing me in an open spot in grass about nine or ten feet high.

  • Along the hareem wall, from the gateway to the angle of the court, was a row of sculptured bas-reliefs, ten feet in height, representing the monarch with his attendant guards and officers.

  • If there is but little overflow, the result may be to deposit all the matter where it first cools, and make a perpendicular wall around the cup two or ten feet high.

  • It is equal to going up three hundred flights of stairs of ten feet each; that is, you go up three hundred stories of your house--only there are no stairs, and the path is on the outside of the house.

  • The rock is soft sandstone and conglomerate, immense masses of which, piled one upon another, form a wall along the western brow of the mountain, through which there is a single pass or gateway about eight or ten feet in width.

  • We at length struck a peculiar country covered with coarse grass ten feet or twelve feet high--not unlike the sugar-cane which I afterwards saw, but much more dense.

  • The former averaged from eight to ten feet, whilst the latter varied from ten to fourteen feet in length; the blade in each case, however, consisting either of bone or stone, with a shaft of some light hard wood.

  • I have seen iguanas attack black snakes from six feet to ten feet in length, whilst they themselves rarely measured more than three or four feet.

  • It is clear, however, that the sand and water were forced not only up to the surface, but even in a continuous stream to heights of from two to ten feet above it.

  • Besides these deferred floods, there occurred immediately after the earthquake a sudden rise in many rivers, amounting to from two to ten feet, followed by a gradual decline to the former state in two or three days.

  • These houses are about six feet high by eight to ten feet wide by ten to twelve feet long, and one may be constructed in a month.

  • The earth floor of these tents is six or eight feet wide and eight or ten feet long, according to the size of the family.

  • This ice never exceeds eight or ten feet in thickness.

  • They were generally from eight to ten feet in width at the back, which was the broadest part, and above fifteen feet long.

  • The snow must have been eight or ten feet deep in some regions.

  • For answer she put her two front feet on the top bar of the steel guard rail and smashed ten feet of it to the floor.

  • Over the slide-rock that protects him, the snows of the long and dreary winter pile up from six to ten feet deep, and lie unbroken for months.

  • Thereafter he made many flights; the earliest of these were short and low, earning him the name of 'Roe the Hopper', but before long he was making flights of three hundred yards in length at a height of from six to ten feet.

  • The airscrew, ten feet in diameter, was driven by a steam-engine of three horse-power, and the speed attained was about six miles an hour.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    better things; directly opposite; indirect taxes; little jelly; medical journal; mission house; more curious; other bodies; special legislation; ten days; ten dollars; ten feet; ten minutes; tenant right; tendency towards; tender conscience; tender heart; tender notes; tenement house; tennis court; tensile strength; tenth century; tenth part; then returned; while every; wounds received