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Example sentences for "yard long"

  • It was my task to appreciate the value of those doubts; and, in declining to be guided by them, I was at least able to consider myself as adhering to the views of all known ancient critics.

  • It abounds in fish of great size, as seawolves, or seals, salmon, and soles above a yard long; but chiefly in immense quantities of that kind which is vulgarly called bacalaos.

  • It contained two cemis made of stone, about a quarter of a yard long, having their hands bound, and which looked as if they sweated.

  • We have plenty of trogons out in the West; some of them most gorgeous fellows, with tails a yard long, and of the most resplendent golden metallic green.

  • Is not a line a yard long really greater than another line a foot in length, whether we know it or not?

  • Are not two lines, each a yard long, really equal in length, whether we know it or not?

  • That there is no need for such a relative entity will be manifest if we consider the simple case of two bars of iron each a yard long.

  • It greatly tends to conceal from the reader the central position which Kant has assigned to time in the Analytic.

  • Thus Descartes gives us, not an analysis of the knowing process, but only a subjectivist interpretation of the nature of the objects upon which it is directed.

  • The unconditioned which Reason postulates in all things by themselves, by necessity and by right.

  • He was a monster, and seemed nearly a yard long, and so big that the boys could do nothing but stare at him at first; but Harry was not to be put out of countenance by the biggest pike in England, so at him he rushed.

  • Tie a piece of strong twine, about a yard long, at the top of the ring and another, three-quarters of a yard, on each side.

  • Cut from scarlet China silk a strip five inches wide by half a yard long.

  • The serpent was very pretty, fully a yard long, black and salmon-coloured, and with a very tapering head and tail.

  • These mats are really like hard mattresses, nearly 1 inch thick, and very stiff, about 1 yard long by 2 feet wide.

  • Bows not past three quarters of a yard long.

  • I grow laconic even beyond laconicism; for sometimes I return only yes, or no, to questionary or petitionary epistles of half a yard long.

  • It is the largest of living Amphibia, becoming a yard long.

  • Bows not past three quarters of a yard long.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    aqueous vapour; bean porridge; before the; captain over; find gold; formerly mentioned; great speech; single fact; struggle between; that none; when they had come; wild state; yard dash; yard gate; yard high; yard long; yard manure; yards across; yards broad; yards distant; yards from; yards from the enemy; yards north; yards south; yards west; yards wide