Sentence examples for scant feet from inspiring English sources

The republican periodical A Cidade do Rio (The City of Rio) stated that "Brazil is so large that it cannot begrudge some scant feet of land to him" and demanded: "Bring him back".

Most notable is the hinged body, which can retract its front and rear modules, shrinking the eight-foot-long car to a scant five feet when it is parked.

I beat him out in the stretch by a scant two feet". Curtis ran the hurdles that day in 17.6 seconds.

They are peering off to their left, at some indeterminate point, refusing to catch the eyes of the three American musicians busking a scant six feet from them.

WITH the air-conditioning off to avoid extraneous sound as the camera rolled, George Butler and Max Cleland sat a scant three feet apart here in the sticky-hot party room of Mr. Cleland's apartment building, doing their bit to get their mutual friend John Kerry elected leader of the free world.

There's a lot of equipment crammed into the scant square feet behind the bar, but Papantonio says he's adapting.

The Cessna 402 piloted by Berro crashed at about midday Sunday after failing to clear the 2,274-foot 2,274-foot ridge by a screst100 feet.

She was and is a scant five feet tall and, in affectionate surfese, "girl" and "midget" seemed to telescope into "Gidget". It was initially Kathy Kohner's thought to write about Kahoona and the other salt-haired characters she met on boards.

The track is used by Metrolink and freight trains, but it's what lies a scant one hundred feet east of Woodley that elevates this hardscrabble section of Van Nuys from the mundane to the mysterious.

Nor is she constrained by seasons – coats were often paired with sandals and bare feet, showing scant regard for practicalities and even seasons.

The low-end stock version's two-liter, four-cylinder engine makes a scant 120 hp and 130 foot-pounds of torque, while the turbocharged Evo pounds out 271 hp and 273 ft.-lbs. of torque.