Example sentences for: inch

How can you use “inch” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • If we take a three-inch cannonball on a very hot day, compute its diameter on a very cold day (assuming a drop of 60° C.), and compare this to the contraction of brass for the same drop in temperature, while it is true that the cannonballs will have shrunken twice as much as the brass monkey , the difference for ten balls would be less than a sixteenth of an inch; the pile would not topple even if their diameters were twice as large.

  • Hard rock simply doesn't get any smarter, harder, or more ambitious than this" (Jim DeRogatis, the Chicago Sun-Times ). What sets Reznor (who records under the name Nine Inch Nails) apart from the techno/goth-rock pack?

  • Hunting dogs are typically foxhounds, 13 inch and 9 inch beagles, coonhounds (all original stock imported) and mixed breeds.

  • Minor was so guilt-ridden over his prodigious sexual appetites that he committed an autopenectomy, reducing his organ to a stub that extended about one inch from its base.

  • The classic OPEN sign is a 35-inch by 15-inch rectangle, with a dozen feet of 12-millimeter tube in the word OPEN and another 8 feet in the border.


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