Sentence examples for around a foot from inspiring English sources

They're walking around a foot taller.

Usually around a foot high, they were made of copper alloy, a sturdy metal with a lustrous matte surface of pale gold (rich but not too rich).

The kerbs in Thailand can be around a foot high, the pavements are rough and pretty much blocked all the way and the roads are invariably uneven - so wheelchair locomotion is not easy.

An overnight snowstorm brought around a foot of snow to downtown Denver, and as few as five hours before Juan Nicasio of the Colorado Rockies threw the first pitch to Jordany Valdespin of the Mets, there was barely a speck of green perceptible around Coors Field.

The GFS model has come in with between 1.75 and 2" of liquid equivalent in the D.C. area which would convert to 8 inches to around a foot (or even a bit more) assuming a conservative ratio of 5-8 inches of snow per inch of liquid.

Autom looks to be around a foot tall, and in addition to her own active belly, she has a set of eyes that follow you around the room and can blink and wink for extra effect.

Monoprice.com sells component cable starting at around 50 cents a foot.

For best ease of use, take a piece of Styrofoam insulation board and cut it to around a 1 foot (0.3 m) square.

Picture an extra-lengthy, extra-thin, extra-flexible slab of greasy cheese coiling itself in multiple layers around a foot-long hot dog.

One underwater camera captured the man's feet tromping around in about a foot of water, kicking up a cloud of muck and bits of vegetation.

We're going to need to be — as any new building needs to be — hovering around $100 a foot.