Sentence examples for a body length from inspiring English sources

Phelps was nearly a body length ahead.

Just as swiftly, he retreated, hopping a body length backward.

With 25 meters remaining Lezak trailed Bernard by a half a body length.

"He's awesome," Michael Klim, 20, said after finishing half a body length behind Thorpe.

Thorpe led by half a body length as he made the first turn.

"In the semis, I was half a body length behind at the start," he said.

The animal, Fruitadens haagarorum, had a body length of about 30 inches and weighed an estimated 2 pounds.

Trailing Bernard by half a body length, Lezak put his head down and surged to the wall.

"If I was within half a body length, no one was going to catch me coming home".

Adult females are very large, with a body length of 25 to 50 mm (1 to 2 inches).

He had a body-length lead in a race often decided by millimeters.