Example sentences for: six-foot

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

  • This rule is upheld even when a number is specified: a six-foot pole, a tenpenny stamp, a twenty-mile stretch . Yet today this rule is being broken more and more often, and the rot certainly started in America with such terms as materials handling and greetings cards . Nowdays my favorite scientific magazine talks only of drugs firms and chemicals manufacturers , though such expressions must surely grate on the ears of anyone who still has a little feeling for the English language.

  • The six-foot hero sandwich?

  • Sometimes the focus on the presenter pays off, as when we see the six-foot scientist looking like a small child beside Chris Greener, the tallest man in Britain, or witness Leroi's faint chagrin at discovering that his DNA is mostly European, despite his cosmopolitan family history.

  • His self-mockery is exemplified by the second picture in the exhibition, a six-foot canvas bearing the letters “ART” [2].


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