Sentence examples for about as tall from inspiring English sources
Picture a double-reed wind instrument that is about four feet long ("about as tall as a fourth grader," Ms. Grice said) and is played either seated or standing.
The larger herons are about as tall when standing erect.
About as tall as an adult great bustard.
In the background is the trade center, about as tall as it stood last week.
He's about as tall as, say, Clint Eastwood, though not as tall as Vince Vaughn, but the problem is that he's pointlessly tall.
It was still too dark to see the steeple, which is about as tall, and as ornate, as the cell-phone tower across the street.
The other new species, Perudyptes devriesi, stood nearly a meter high--about as tall as today's King penguin.
The Antarctic is split into two unequal portions by the Transantarctic Mountains, a 2,200-mile-long 2,200-mile-long 2,200-mile-longbout half as tall as Mount Everange
Some actors look disappointingly different off-screen, but he looks even more DeVitoesque in person, wearing a top hat about twice as tall as he is.
The camera is quite a handful -- at seven inches in height, it is about twice as tall as pocket-size digital cameras like the popular Olympus D-series cameras.
To see him come in at visiting hours, about twice as tall as all the little, stumpy people, with his handsome, kind, smiling face is the most beautiful sight in the world to me".
