Sentence examples for a scant inch from inspiring English sources

Finally, she settled it a scant inch south of its original position.

Stitch the entire outside edge of the car seat cover using a scant inch (.635 cm) seam.

The typical seat in Northwest's economy class is just 17.1 inches wide (narrowest in the top ten) and offers a scant 30.8 inches of legroom (reduced to 30 inches on certain DC9s).

Roll the chilled dough between two sheets of parchment paper to a scant 1/4 inch (5mm) thick.

Trim the long edges to a scant 1⁄4 inch (10.2 cm) from the stitched line, making sure that the last strip is just pinned in place.

But they generally overlooked the fact that these behemoths hold 362 passengers — 262 of them stuffed into coach seats with a scant 31 inches of legroom, in rows that are 10 seats across.

"No doubt about it, they are making travel so miserable that we will be tempted to pay for a few more inches," said Michael Johnson, an international business traveler who recently flew from Boston to Paris in Air France's Voyageur basic coach — where the cheap seats have a scant 32 inches of legroom and are in eight-across rows.

Mothers cleaned homes, tended to boarders, and raised children, all in 325-square foot apartments, just a scant few inches from their neighbors' doors, their airshaft windows offering direct views onto neighbors' apartments.

Over the years the Camry has grown so that its wheelbase is now a scant 1.7 inches shorter than the Avalon's and offers just 2.6 inches less rear legroom.

On a lightly floured surface, roll the dough to 1/8-to a scant 1/4-inch thickness and fit it into a glass or dull aluminum perforated 9-inch pie pan, guiding the dough downward to hug the sides of the pan.

Shave a scant 1/4-inch-thick slice off one side of each sprout and put cut side down.