Sentence examples for yard high from inspiring English sources

Without wishing to sound bourgeois, I was in Waitrose on Saturday and, past the checkout, I noticed a large cardboard box about a yard high.

We had never so closely observed the central doors....On the doors, in full-relief figures about a yard high, are St.

It was surrounded by concrete barriers less than a yard high, even though it had been ambushed less than a month ago by dozens of gunmen.

Hearts threatened from two Danny Swanson free-kicks, Igor Rossi heading a yard high and wide before Ripley made a great stop from Callum Paterson's header.

A five-image polyptych that recalls a medieval or Renaissance altarpiece, it is more than two yards long and a yard high and took five years to paint.

The pouf was a cross between a topiary and a Christmas tree, and each creation, about a yard high, had a sentimental or political theme, depending on the wearer and the occasion.

Batting: Poly-fill, 1 yard (0.9 m) high loft, and 1 yard (0.9 m) very low loft.

It was now almost a yard higher than the sidewalk.

His head was at least a yard higher than hers; four of her could easily have stood between one of his shoulders and the other.

(Later in his career, Campbell returned to the hurdles, setting world records in the indoor 60-yard high hurdles and the outdoor 120 high hurdles in 1957).

5.44pm BST 44 mins: "Given all that's gone on over the past few days how together do the Ghanaian players seem?" asks David Wall, as Nani blasts a 30-yard high.