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Example sentences for "yards long"

  • A Pambala sits on the cart, to which are fastened two large ropes, each about 200 yards long.

  • The females wear coarse cloth four yards long, and have their foreheads tattooed in dots of two or three horizontal lines, and wear ear-rings, glass bangles, and necklaces of black beads.

  • Females wear a sadi about 8 yards long and 11/4 yards broad.

  • At the passage of the Sierra Nevada there will also be a tunnel 500 yards long.

  • At right angles to the temple, Squier discovered the remains of a series of supplemental edifices surrounding courts, and built upon a terrace 260 yards long.

  • So Chance guided the boats into a natural cove, certainly not very large--just a segment of a circle some 400 yards long.

  • The German chests are rectangular, being about 3 yards long, half a yard broad, with edges half a yard high; and their inclination is such that the lower end is about 15 inches beneath the level of the upper.

  • Each piece is 35 yards long; and they weigh, on an average, 10 lbs.

  • The top of the lowest was a square platform with sides four hundred yards long; its walls were a few meters high, and all of black color.

  • In the middle of the space stood the temple, a rectangular pile four hundred and fifty yards long and in width one hundred and fifty.

  • More or less in the centre of this lowest platform rose a quadrangular building with sides two hundred yards long.

  • Near Tartaras it traverses a tunnel 118 yards long.

  • Annan by a railway viaduct 1960 yards long.

  • The dromos which led from Luxor to Karnak was about 2,200 yards long; there must, therefore, have been five hundred sphinxes on each side of it.

  • The passage to it is about 35 yards long.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "yards long" 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:
    cubic inches; eighty days; emigrant ship; find myself; first knew; full hour; great concern; insect pests; later ages; much sought; old maid; remarkable instance; the mountain; thick batter; three great; worth quoting; yards across; yards apart; yards away; yards broad; yards distant; yards east; yards from; yards from the enemy; yards further; yards south