Sentence examples for For its height from inspiring English sources

When the Empire State Building was being built, as Neal Bascomb reveals in his new book, "Higher" (Doubleday; $26), the motive for its height was insistently said to be commercial — it was more economical, and the spire would be a place for wandering zeppelins to find a mooring — even though everyone knew that the real motive was just to be... taller.

Two days earlier he'd found the tree he now led me to; it was on the edge of a marsh, and it had a trunk that seemed too wide for its height, its bark streaked with sap, the upper branches leaning so far to the north the tree seemed in danger of toppling over.

The tree was chosen for its height, color, fullness and lack of obvious defects.

The beagle is a solidly built dog, heavy for its height.

There's a button to adjust the compliance of the suspension and another for its height.

It's available in two colours and at 42cm in diameter there's a fair bit of room inside for its height.

The tower, sheathed in a mix of granite, glass and metal, is roughly square in shape for most of its height, with its four corners cut away.

Without this cladding, the mast is a more straightforward pole of galvanized steel trusswork, about six feet in diameter for much of its height, intersected by wider maintenance platforms.

Which is why, for whatever Occupy Wall Street is remembered for at its height, it should be considered an intervention for the country -- a staged disruption by those who care, trying to alert an ailing entity to the damage it is inflicting.

Column 4 was repaired along most of its height except for the top 12 in.

Today, the average unit in Fort Myers and Cape Coral is selling for just a hundred and fifty-eight thousandollarsrs, less than half of what it sold for at its height.