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Example sentences for "full length"

  • We found him lying at full length, apparently in a deep stupor, yet still alive.

  • His Majesty presented me with fifty purses of two hundred sprugs apiece, together with his picture at full length, which I put immediately into one of my gloves, to keep it from being hurt.

  • I then showed him the gold given me by the Emperor of Blefuscu, together with his Majesty's picture at full length, and some other rarities of that country.

  • He drew up a short but most energetic defence of that unfortunate general, in a letter, which he meant to print and send to the editors of a newspaper which had traduced him, with his name at full length.

  • All this leading to discourse upon loyalty, and then its contrast, democracy, she narrated to me at full length a lecture of Therwall's, which had been repeated to her by M.

  • The screen or curtain between the nave and choir has eleven carved figures, at full length, which appeared to represent kings, some of them wearing crowns, and bearing sceptres or swords.

  • I saw no armed knights, asleep on the tops of their tombs; but there was a curious representation of a skeleton, at full length, under the table-slab of one of the monuments.

  • In front of the woolsack there is another still larger ottoman, on which he might be at full length,--for what purpose intended, I know not.

  • Here the light forsook Renaldo's eyes, his knees knocked together, and he fell at full length insensible on the floor.

  • Cosette was pale, and had fallen at full length on the ground at his feet, without a movement.

  • Salute at the Beginning of the Letter, into My Worthy Friend, and subscribed himself in the latter End of it at full length William Honeycomb.

  • The young girl came nimbly down the pathway, her skirts skimming the ground with a swinging motion that charmed me, I saw her at full length, quite erect, in her proud and happy gracefulness.

  • She then took a razor, went to her husband's tomb, bedewed it with her tears, and drew near to cut off the nose of Zadig, whom she found extended at full length in the tomb.

  • And I extended myself at full length on the moss.

  • One of the Stuarts was a full length of an officer in the buff and blue of the Continental Army.

  • Perry Blackwood and Ham did most of the talking, while Ralph, characteristically, lay at full length on the window-seat, interrupting with an occasional terse and cynical remark very much to the point.

  • After having succeeded in attracting the attention of the sentinels, Sergeant Corney crept back to my side, lying there at full length and in silence.

  • It has a door at each side and glass windows and is long enough for one to lie at full length.

  • The sleeping rooms were too short for me, and before I could lie, at full length in my berth, it was necessary to pull away a partition near my head.

  • The mule-litter is a goodly-sized palanquin, not quite long enough for lying at full length, but high enough to allow the passenger to sit erect.

  • It is barely high enough to allow a man to sit erect, but not sufficiently long to enable him to lie at full length.

  • Chapter vii -- A picture of formal courtship in miniature, as it always ought to be drawn, and a scene of a tenderer kind painted at full length.

  • It would be unpleasant and tedious to paint this scene in full length.

  • A picture of formal courtship in miniature, as it always ought to be drawn, and a scene of a tenderer kind painted at full length.

  • The reader need not apprehend the recital, at full length, of such formidable preparations for the Widow's tea-party as were required in the case of Colonel Sprowle's Social Entertainment.

  • It was reported in the next morning's newspapers, and will be given at full length, doubtless, in the next number of the Psychological Journal.

  • There is room enough in it for a man to lie easily at full length.

  • The massive wardrobe possessed compartments of unusual size, in which double the number of dresses that Agnes possessed might have been conveniently hung at full length.

  • He stretched himself at full length on the floor, and passed his right arm into the cavity.

  • It was an intoxicated man lying at full length.

  • If the bank be flat it is wet, and what looks like the grass of the meadow really grows out of the water; so that there it is not possible to be at full length.

  • They were found lying at full length in the crisp white grass, for we often rose to visit the wires while yet the stars were visible.

  • There the happy husband, dressed in a flowered dressing-gown, stretched himself out at full length on the sofa and blew clouds of smoke all around him out of his long csibuk, stuffed full with the best Turkish tobacco.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "full length" 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:
    being elected; full bearing; full blossom; full colors; full council; full doses; full great; full half; full head; full hour; full length; full load; full moon; full operation; full pardon; full progress; full song; full stop; full strength; full view; fully satisfied; independent power; sensuous experience; stormy weather; understood afterwards; unless thou