Example sentences for: inch

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

  • The WP notes that Monday, the National Weather Service used a new IBM supercomputer and enhanced software to predict a "total accumulation less than one inch."

  • An eight- or twelve-inch pair of scissors is an unwieldy instrument, difficult to guide within the 1/32th of an inch of the pattern outline.

  • As a youngster in The Bronx in the early 1930s, I would occasionally take my windfall of a few pennies to the local candy store and buy a strip of cockamamies , `comic-style cartoons in brilliant colors, each about an inch by an inch and a half, transferable to forearm or forehead by wetting,' preferably with saliva to make things agreeably messy.

  • Cave No. 9 contains the smallest of all Buddha figures here, only 2 cm (less than 1 inch) high.

  • Developers, however, have resolved this problem very innovatively by literally building into the cliff sides themselves, and this often leaves visitors with the rather surreal sight of wall-to-wall development taking up every inch of these steep bays.


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