Sentence examples for off the height from inspiring English sources

The stage was no more than three feet deep with a yellow backdrop, with a dozen horizontal lines, an inch apart marking off the height of a man.

Keep your head up on the takeoff so as not to cut off the height in the jump.

Mr. Bloomberg's architect agreed to shave three feet off the height of the house and abandon plans for the dock.

At the end of the year, the baseball fathers studied these figures and determined to rebalance the game by shaving five inches off the height of the mound (reducing it to ten inches), and by closing up the upper and lower limits of the strike zone.

It also manages to shave 0.4 inches off the height of the device, as well as 0.04 inches off the depth (with the same width) and though it doesn't sound like much, it makes a big difference when the phone's in your hand, combined with the ounce or so of weight savings.

By the end of December, a contractor hired by Orange County Parks will begin dredging sediment in several parts of the harbor to level off the height of the sea floor, with most of the work near the main entry channel along the Seal Beach and Huntington Beach border.

The episode breaks off at the height of its fury.

The bomb went off at the height of the rush hour on the RER line, killing eight people and injuring 80.

On Friday, Florida's electricity companies were working to restore power to more than 200,000 consumers who were cut off at the height of the storm.

Executives at banks that did separate the top two jobs — a list that includes Citigroup, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America — say the move paid off at the height of the recent crisis and in efforts to shape the regulatory reform bill passed by Congress.

The first observation shows that the quicker increase of s for larger perturbations is balanced by the higher level that s reaches before levelling off: The overshoot height smax is proportional to the perturbation size Δσ∼σ.