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Example sentences for "feet apart"

  • The piers are 66 feet apart, centre to centre, and the longitudinal beams are supported, at four nearly equidistant points in this space, by straight single timbers radiating from the tops of the piers.

  • In order to gain in ground elevation and thus reduce the necessary height of towers, two points 4,427 feet apart on opposite sides of the straits were selected for their location.

  • This would permit three wires to be mounted along the cross-piece at points about 14 feet apart.

  • If the border is composed of shrubs, and is large, a horse cultivator may be run in and out between the plants for the first two or three years, since the shrubs will be set 2 to 4 feet apart.

  • The plants may be set at distances of 1 to 2-1/2 feet apart.

  • The plants were set about two feet apart.

  • The plants may be set from 2 to 4 feet apart.

  • It has three lattice-girder two-hinge ribs 24-1/2 feet apart on centers, the center line of each rib being a parabola.

  • Two narrow pits about 40 feet apart, were first sunk and their bottoms covered with concrete at the elevation of the floor of the subway.

  • Pineapples are planted in Queensland in several ways, but by far the most common method is to set the suckers out in single or double rows, from 8 to 9 feet apart, with the plants at from 1 to 2 feet apart in the row.

  • The land requires to be thoroughly well prepared, and the plants are usually set out in rows about 2 feet apart, with the plants about 1 foot apart in the row.

  • The main girders of the bridge were 12 feet apart, each cross-girder end carrying its share of the half of one road.

  • Amidships, the framing, which consisted of channel sections 10 inches in depth, was spaced 3 feet apart.

  • The selection is continued with each succeeding year as the trees grow larger and additional trees are thinned out so that they stand eventually a hundred or 150 feet apart, giving to each tree adequate room.

  • The trees were planted in a portion of a five-acre block at some distance from the original plantings, with a spacing of 25 feet apart on the square in soil of rather light and sandy texture with fair subsoil drainage.

  • These joists are placed 2-1/2 feet apart at the outside of the barn, and half as many joists are used in the inner span, making the joists at the silo one foot apart.

  • Space early sowings about 3 feet apart in the row; later sowings slated to mature during summer's heat can use 4 feet.

  • I had heard of someone growing unirrigated carrots on sandy soil in southern Oregon by sowing early and spacing the roots 1 foot apart in rows 4 feet apart.

  • Broccoli: Purple Sprouting and Other Overwintering Types Spacing: Grow like broccoli, 3 to 4 feet apart.

  • My dry garden is generally laid out in single rows, the row centers 4 feet apart.

  • Plant 15 or 20 feet apart according to ground and tree.

  • Bars of iron perforated, flat, and light, 6 or 7 feet apart, should keep the wires in position.

  • In this case, however, it may be supposed that the stope faces are 11 feet apart and 8 feet high.

  • The original consisted of an endless band of strong cloth or closely woven matting, run on two horizontal rollers placed about seven feet apart, one being some inches lower than the other.

  • To rig the above, two trees are chosen 7 to 8 feet apart, or two stayed poles can be erected if no trees are available.

  • They are 5-1/2 feet deep, and set 7 feet apart.

  • The two surfaces were set six feet apart, one directly above the other, while the elevating rudder was placed about ten feet in front of the machine on a flexible framework.

  • When wires are run at right angles to beams which are more than 4½ feet apart, a running board should be used and the wires cleated to it as shown in fig.

  • The knobs should support the wires at least one inch from the surface over which they run, and should not be spaced further than 4½ feet apart.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "feet apart" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    behaved like; exclusive legislation; feet above; feet above the river; feet above the sea; feet above the water; feet below the surface; feet depth; feet diameter; feet elevation; feet flesh; feet from the surface; feet long; feet lower; feet pale; feet stroke; feet thick; feet were; feet wide; glad tidings; haunted woodland; hear much; leaving the; little expected; mere force; royal power