Sentence examples for hand spans from inspiring English sources

But the model in the gown, whose hand spans the Seine, ultimately conquers.

In Jet's case competence reveals itself as tracks that are sort of fascinating in the way they're forever at least two hand spans from being even marginally good.

The works at hand spanned almost half a century, from 1893 (Debussy) through 1923 (Janacek) to 1941 (Britten) and represented disparate composers in very different stages of life.

At 77.9mm wide, with smooth rounded sides that feel nice but are slippery to try and grip, the iPhone 7 Plus is simply too wide for me to manage with a – not abnormal – hand span of 23cm.

Also, the modest scale of the game — a nine-by-five table, a six-inch-high net, a little plastic ball, and a wooden racquet that is barely bigger than a hand span — makes it look so easy.

In it, Azzam argued that not a single hand span of Muslim territory anywhere could ever be ceded to the enemy "because the land belongs to Allah and to Islam".

His hand span, measuring only nine and a half inches, does not give him the wraparound control that basketball players like to have, but, despite relatively unimpressive shoulders and biceps, he is unusually strong, and he can successfully mix with almost anyone in the Greco-Roman battles under the backboards.

Requiring a superhuman hand span — Mr. McMillen said he used a battery pack, a box of staples and his iPhone for help — the piece builds up mistlike chords that are suspended until their overtones hang in the air like flickering halos.

His costumes for Cunningham's "Second Hand" spanned a rainbow spectrum of color when seen all together, but, he added, "I only remember that Viola Farber told me that they looked 'like a bunch of Easter eggs.' " The Cunningham-Johns collaboration included a magnum opus: "Un Jour ou Deux," choreographed in 1973 for the Paris Opera Ballet, and just revived there this fall.

This study used biomechanical techniques to objectively investigate the effects of the size of hand span and right/left hands on the kinematic and kinetic performances when playing the piano.

CpG-islands, repeats, segmental duplications and indel events on the other hand span over several nucleotides and in this case the feature was counted once, in the window where the start was located.