Sentence examples for inch of too from inspiring English sources

And a little candied bacon, flavored with maple syrup, mustard and bourbon, sweetens the chop to within an inch of too much.

"One inch of new pipeline is too long".

Frank Lampard's corner was a couple of inches too high for Drogba but Terry was coming in from behind and his header was expertly taken.

He gives as an example the error, or the crudeness, of someone responding to a complaint concerning the depiction of a human smile (specifically, that the smile did not seem genuine), with the reply that, after all, the lips are only parted one one-thousandths of an inch too much: such differences, however small in measure, in truth matter enormously.

No matter, he drops his club on the ball and rolls the ball to within a couple of inches too.

"Jack moved very geometrically pure, never one-hundredth of an inch too much.

But it was a quarter of an inch too wide and would not fit through the door, Mr. Goodman said.

"An eighth of an inch too deep with your blade off dry sand and the shot expires right in front of your eyes," Jones said later.

Bode Miller was disqualified from a World Cup slalom race by the International Ski Federation for wearing boots that were one-hundredth of an inch too high.

And as a local female weather forecaster recently mentioned, 17 inches of anything is too much.

Webb draws us into the theatre of the street the way Helen Levitt and Saul Leiter do, animating every inch of the frame and our imaginations, too.