Sentence examples for yard long from inspiring English sources

An archivist showed me one leaf that was a yard long and an inch wide.

Geoducks can weigh five pounds, with a neck a yard long.

Guinea worms grow up to a yard long inside the body and finally poke out through the skin.

The larvae escape being digested by either the crustacean or the human, and grow inside the body to about a yard long.

Or consider this: a few days after its conception, a pig embryo has become a filament that is about a yard long.

By now, with a publication list a yard long, and departments desperate for heavy hitters in the research assessment exercise stakes, Todd was a target for academic headhunters.

He picked up a shot at the monstrous fifth, 642 yards long, which he conquered with a 344-yard long drive and a 298-yard long iron, on to the green.

It's 7,900 yards long.

It is more than 150 yards long.

The lay-by was a couple of hundred yards long.

It was a hundred yards long — quite enough for twelve.