Sentence examples for second as wide from inspiring English sources

She puts her feet to the ground and faces her husband, then makes the dramatic gesture of raising her arms and fanning them open for a second, as wide as a trellis, before they close around him.

The components in Intel's 4004, the first microprocessor, were 10,000 nanometres wide, about a tenth as wide as a human hair.

The Lucent microscope shoots a narrow beam of high-energy electrons through a very thin sheet of silicon -- about one one-thousandth as wide as a human hair -- and looks at how the electrons are deflected.

Mounted on a computer's magnetic recording head, the NFT can focus a laser beam inside an area less than 75 nanometers in diameter, or one-tenth as wide as the narrowest conventional laser beam.

But now, using Earth-based telescopes that can observe the moon in wavelength bands approximately one-fortieth as wide as Galileo's, researchers have spotted the spectral signature of magnesium sulfate on Europa's trailing hemisphere, they report online today in The Astronomical Journal.

Each rocket is about 10 nanometers long, about a thousandth as wide as a human hair.

The pectoral fin disc of the bluespotted ribbontail ray is oval in shape, around four-fifths as wide as long, with a rounded to broadly angular snout.

Your folded piece of paper should be one-fourth as wide as it would normally be.

They should be at least two thirds as wide as your frame.

Follow the two thirds rule - art placed above a piece of furniture should be at least two thirds as wide as the furniture itself.[1] For instance, a ten foot wide sofa should have at least about six and a half feet of art above it.

At about 4 30 p.m. a third train "as wide as the trestle bridge" approached the crew at a "rapid speed".