Sentence examples for gauging the length from inspiring English sources

"I'm a non-S.U.V. guy," Mr. Pearson said, adding that he has started gauging the length of open curbs adjacent to fire hydrants to determine if his Mini could forge a parking space where no bigger car dared legally tread.

Drape the cheesecloth in crossing swaths, making sure to gauge the length so that once the weight of the lemons is pending, they cannot reach the spirit.

Learning the number of turns had helped him to gauge the length of the breech plug — which Captain Parsons removed in order to slip in the four silk bags filled with cordite that fired the gun that sent the uranium projectile smashing into its target.

Companies are offering tests to gauge the length of telomeres, which they say may foretell our health.

You can gauge the length either by measuring your wrist beforehand or by simply trying the bracelet on occasionally through the process.

A nice rope-like structure of yarn should form at the back of your hand, which will allow you to roughly gauge the length you've made.

We get vivid, subjective glimpses into his mind-set, feeling his unease as he walks down a street, his struggle in a diner to gauge the proper length of time for, say, glancing at someone.

The gun crew still had to gauge the best length of fuse for the range they were firing – ideally the shell should explode just before hitting its target.

We use external time-keepers, such as clocks or watches, to gauge the apparent lengths of our experiences, and consequently we employ units such as 'second' and 'minute' to refer to both objective and subjective durations.

Coupled with the "mental accounting" we do every day – organising our thinking in terms of debts and credits – unlimited paid annual leave takes away the surety of the standard four weeks, and replaces it with the spurious and onerous task of gauging the socially correct timing and length of leave.

The hands-on experience of your coach can be gauged by the length of their coaching practice and the total number of coaching hours.