Sentence examples for small in diameter from inspiring English sources

It's the size of a hockey puck — small in diameter, plump in the middle — but juicy.

Grebes' wings are short, and the wing bones are small in diameter.

Roll the ball out on a lightly greased surface to a circle about 18cm (10cm for small) in diameter and cut in half.

The screw looks like a tapered wood screw and is short and small in diameter; it centres the bit and draws it into the work.

While the pipe is small in diameter -- too small to work effectively, some analysts hold -- the officials said high pressure from an air compressor on the trailer could force the tank to drain in 10 or 20 minutes.

They first suspected that cell size might be a factor, because fetal bone marrow stem cells, which tend to have a higher percentage of MSCs, are usually small in diameter.

Make the holes slightly smaller in diameter than the thickness of the nails.

* Cut a sheet of parchment about 1/4 inch smaller in diameter than the pan.

Place pan in oven, and place a heavy pan slightly smaller in diameter than first pan directly on foil.

To minimize swirl error, the card is often made considerably smaller in diameter than the bowl.

Slow-twitch fibers are also smaller in diameter than fast-twitch fibers and have increased capillary blood flow around them.