People do not stop to inquire as to the length of his sentence.
He showed that the velocity of a signal through a given core was inversely proportional to the square of the length of the core.
The speed of signalling by the siphon recorder is of course regulated by the length of cable through which it is worked.
The length of line through which Morse could work his apparatus was an important point to be determined, for it was known that the current grows feebler in proportion to the resistance of the wire it traverses.
The length of new line constructed by Mr. Telford was sixty-nine miles, and it was probably the finest piece of road which up to that time had been made.
The length of time required for a "sitting," even with the reflecting apparatus, was such as to render the operation anything but pleasant.
There is so great an inequality in the length of our legs and arms as makes it impossible for us to walk on all four.
The twist was one full turn in the length of barrel.
The length of a tiger will depend upon the system of measurement.
The space between two objects; the length of a line, especially the shortest line joining two points or things that are separate; measure of separation in place.
A firing in the direction ofthe length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.
To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction of the length of, as a work, or a line of troops.
If so, the length of the chain of physical causes intervening is of no importance, and has no bearing on the case.
Perhaps the actual decisions could be reconciled on a [137] narrower principle, but the rule just stated goes the length of saying that in business matters a man makes every statement (of a kind likely to be acted on) at his peril.
The courts seem to have decided between murder and manslaughter on such grounds as the nature of the weapon used, /2/ or the length of time between the provocation and the act.
Long distances in the mountains or on the trail are measured by the length of time necessary to walk them, and the length of time is told by pointing to the place of the sun in the heavens at the hour of departure and arrival.
Cloth for breechcloths is measured by the length of the forearm, being wound about the elbow and through the hand, quite as one coils up a rope.
The length of time it sleeps with the parents doubtless depends upon the advent or nonadvent of another child.
You can mark the sharp difference in the length of reigns by the varying distances of the stakes apart.
I aided and abetted him every evening in making that spectacular descent of the royal stairway, and in running that fair and frivolous gantlet the length of "Peacock Alley.
And therefore if the Soveraign shall have a question of Right grounded, not upon his present Will, but upon the Lawes formerly made; the Length of Time shal bring no prejudice to his Right; but the question shal be judged by Equity.
To him that can avoyd these things, it is not easie to fall into any absurdity, unlesse it be by the length of an account; wherein he may perhaps forget what went before.
As to the lengthof a bad night, or of a mere time of wakefulness at night, adult words do not measure it; they hardly measure the time of merely waiting for sleep in childhood.
Indeed, the contrast of the length of contemporary time (this pleonasm is inevitable) is no small mystery, and the world has never had the wit fully to confess it.
As to the length of Beethoven, experienced by you on duty in the drawing room, it would be curious to know whether it was really something greater than Beethoven had any idea of.
The Diameter has reference tothe length of the propeller, from end to end.
Again, the wing attachment is at the upper side of the body, and the vertical dimension of the body, or its thickness, is equal to four-fifths of the length of he wing.
Lepidoptera, by the thinness, sometimes by the length, of their tongues, were able to produce special modifications.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "the length" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
