Sentence examples for inch broad from inspiring English sources

The webs were not single, filmy threads, floating in the air in all directions, but perfect flakes or rags, some near an inch broad, and five or six long, which fell with a degree of velocity which showed they were considerably heavier than the atmosphere".

The base of the triangles was either 1 inch (broad triangles, N = 120) or 0.5 inch (narrow triangles, N = 183).

S. mordax was originally described from Fiji as having "branches nearly simple, much compressed, not thinner at apex, scarcely flabellate, 1/2 to 1 inch broad, and 1/3 of an inch thick; polyps with a pale yellowish disk, and short tentacles of a bright green colour, deep brown at base.

The leaves are about 5 cm (2 inches) broad and 76 cm (2.5 feet) long.

"I guess I'm about the only coach in basketball who screams only one thing at his players: 'Shoot more!' " said David Arseneault, the tall (6 feet 3 inches), broad, balding, 50-year-old genius of this curious system.

At the NFL Scouting Combine, he ran the 40-yard dash in 4.54 seconds and recorded a 34.5-inch vertical jump and nine-foot, six-inch broad jump.

Its mouth was surrounded by a plaited pile, which near the column was two inches broad, lessening in its narrowest part to three-quarters of an inch.

The scale is 6 millimetres (0.2 inches) thick, 15 mm (0.6 inches) broad and the available length is 128 mm (5.0 inches), but only 27 graduations are visible over 46 mm (1.8 inches), the distance between graduation lines being 1.70 mm (0.067 inches) (the small size indicates use for fine purposes).

I will give the measurement of one, to indicate the form: the length along the back nearly fourteen inches; from the base to the top of the column in front, five inches; and its lid a foot long by fourteen inches broad, and of an oval shape.

Millions of crabs each up to five inches across gather together in broad streams, flooding roads and scaling cliffs to reach the ocean.

Hip circumference was measured by encircling the inch tape in broadest part of hip of the participants.