Sentence examples for barely six feet from inspiring English sources

The tree, barely six feet tall, has mottled gray bark and a canopy of twisting branches twinkling with holiday lights.

I found that the driver's area provided all the room I needed, but not much more — and I'm barely six feet tall.

After leading Lincoln Way East to Illinois's big-school state championship as a senior, Kropp was practically unrecruited — concerns about his size (barely six feet) and arm strength (moderate) overshadowed his talents.

The smallest shops, some barely six feet by six feet, are called lojas, and are crammed with in-line skates and cellular telephones and pharmaceuticals — almost anything that could fall off a truck.

The group of atolls and reefs, home to some 10,000 people, is barely six feet above sea level on average, and one study predicted that, at the current rate, the ocean will swallow the country in 30 to 50 years.

By David Lardner The New Yorker, July 10, 1943 P. 13 Gazing out of our apartment window the other day, we suddenly were aware of a stocking (apparantly whole and plainly of a filmy substance, though whether silk or nylon we couldn't be sure) tossing about on the lap of a brisk, westerly breeze, barely six feet from our startled eyes.

Barely fifteen feet separated the two vessels.

I am barely five feet seven.

He was barely five feet tall.

Ms. Chau is barely five feet tall.

At sixteen, I was barely five feet three inches.