Sentence examples for their own length from inspiring English sources

Some (Melanocetus, Linophryne) are known to swallow fishes several times their own length, accommodating them in a highly distensible stomach.

Researchers have caught two species of miniscule crustaceans, called copepods, performing never-before-seen feats of athleticism: To avoid predators, they leap out of the water, completing arcs in the air about 40 times their own length.

Jumping spiders can leap several times their own length by powerfully extending the third or fourth pairs of legs, reaching up to 200 mm with the forelimbs extended to grasp the prey.

Jumping spiders generally have large forelegs and short, powerful back legs, and can leap up to 50 times their own length by powerfully extending the third or fourth pairs of legs.

Spiders can generate pressures up to eight times their resting level to extend their legs, and jumping spiders can jump up to 50 times their own length by suddenly increasing the blood pressure in the third or fourth pair of legs.

During such a deformation, individual fibers can stretch to multiple times their own length (Liu et al. 2006).

All the other countries which share the Mekong have ambitious plans to engineer their own lengths of river.

Each of these have their own step length that is empirically tweaked around.

The variety of processes that make friction such a complex phenomenon includes mechanical, chemical and atomic interactions, each operating at their own time, length, and force scale.

This gives the rods enough power to spin around and move up to 100 times their own body length per second in water.

The males of one species produce sperm that are two inches long twenty times their own body length and a thousand times longer than a human sperm.