Sentence examples for column inch from inspiring English sources
noun
One inch of a printed column; a measure of space allocated.
Since the advent of text databases, the "column inch" job has become the word count search.
The paper sells ads to offset the cost of printing and distribution at a rate of $6 per column inch.
He also covered school sports for 25 cents a column inch, plus 50 cents for the score.
The boring truth, which merited just one column inch in a sister tabloid the following week, was that the fire was caused by an electrical fault.
Kirk Douglas plays a thoroughly unscrupulous reporter who keeps a man trapped in a cave to milk every column inch out of a terrific story.
Those Chinese girls never received a column inch of news coverage, and we began to wonder if our journalistic priorities were skewed.
Need some column inches filled?
Column inches in the press?
The column inches became column miles.
Conference speeches, column inches, feet up.
