INCHES in a Sentence

Learn INCHES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

164 example sentences for INCHES, such as:

1. Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
2. An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
3. Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
4. Cut half an inch off the base of each stem.
5. The car missed me by a fraction of an inch.

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 Meanings and Examples of INCHES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
inch
 n.  a unit used for measuring length, equal to 2.54 centimetres
 v.  move very slowly
Classic Sentence: (130 in 9 pages)
1  The green muslin measured seventeen inches about the waist, and Mammy had laced her for the eighteen-inch bombazine.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
2  Mammy gave a little shriek and retreated and from a distance of a yard, modestly elevated her dress a few inches and showed the ruffle of a red taffeta petticoat.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER L
3  "There is something to do about it," thought Scarlett as she ripped savagely at the seams of her dress to let out the necessary inches.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LI
4  He began with a bar two inches from the ground and gradually worked up the height to a foot.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIX
5  I seen some wheat that must of been five inches high.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
6  Once, she whispered, she was going by when an indiscreet window-shade had been left up a couple of inches.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
7  The few sleepers below in their bunks were often startled by the sharp slapping of their tails against the hull, within a few inches of the sleepers' hearts.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 64. Stubb's Supper.
8  That blubber is something of the consistence of firm, close-grained beef, but tougher, more elastic and compact, and ranges from eight or ten to twelve and fifteen inches in thickness.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 68. The Blanket.
9  Immediately, by Starbuck's orders, lines were secured to it at different points, so that ere long every boat was a buoy; the sunken whale being suspended a few inches beneath them by the cords.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 81. The Pequod Meets The Virgin.
10  From that part, the remaining ribs diminished, till the tenth and last only spanned five feet and some inches.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
11  The smallest, where the spine tapers away into the tail, is only two inches in width, and looks something like a white billiard-ball.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
12  The bluish pearl-white of the inside of the jaw was within six inches of Ahab's head, and reached higher than that.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 133. The Chase—First Day.
13  From under the lining he now produced a collection of brilliantly coloured paper figures, several inches high and stiff enough to stand alone.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: XI
14  He is only about five feet high, but even so these trousers are about eight inches short of the ground.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 1
15  It was the life she had to live, the accursed work she had to do, that was killing her by inches.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 14
Example Sentence: (34 in 3 pages)
16  In geology, a boulder is a rock with grain size of usually no less than 256 mm (10 inches) diameter.
17  Topsoil is the upper surface of the Earth's crust, and usually is no deeper than approximately eight inches.
18  But she went on all the same, shedding gallons of tears, until there was a large pool all round her, about four inches deep and reaching half down the hall.
19  It was twelve foot wide and about fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches -- a solid, level floor.
20  The material lost 2 inches per yard in shrinkage.
21  His wingspan is 3 inches longer than his 6-4 height.
22  An inch in a miss is as good as an ell.
23  Cut half an inch off the base of each stem.
24  But police now know the murder weapon was a knife with a ten inch long blade.
25  The car stopped within a fraction of an inch of the wall.
26  Give him an inch and he'll take a yard.
27  The car missed me by a fraction of an inch.
28  Sow the seeds one inch deep in the soil.
29  Like sunlight penetrates every inch of skin feeling faint.
30  In his first game the young player already looked every inch a winner.