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Example sentences for "length from"

  • When the room was sold to Burbage it was said to be fifty-two feet in length from north to south, which is exactly the breadth of the building from east to west.

  • It is a substantial steel blade varying in length from 30 to 45 centimeters.

  • Varying in length from 15 to 45 centimeters they are whittled with a bolo out of pieces of báyud wood, or of any soft white wood when báyud is not obtainable.

  • The shaft of the former is a piece of bamboo,[26] varying in length from 1.

  • This varies in length from four to eight inches, and in diameter from less than an inch to more than three inches.

  • It may be about 8 Leagues in length from East to West, but of what breadth I know not, because I only saw the North side.

  • Illustration] The natives of the Society Islands use a canoe, averaging in length from ten to forty feet.

  • Place the root loose on a table, stand at arm's length from it, lay the edge of the sword lightly on it, and slice the root by repeatedly drawing the sword over it.

  • Illustration] The mallet, of which in a Croquet set there are eight, varies in length from 32 to 39 inches.

  • The pear shaped aguacates vary in length from five to ten inches, and will average probably a pound and a half in weight.

  • Few darts or spear-heads have been found of bronze, but the iron examples are very numerous, often of beautiful form and highly ornamented; they vary in length from about 6 to 18 inches.

  • The latter obeyed, and when the brig was only half a cable's length from it, Hatteras called out: "Fire!

  • The brig was still about three cables' length from it, when the mountain, entering like a corner-stone into the open space, strongly adhered to its neighbours and closed up all issue.

  • However, in a few hours Hatteras succeeded in getting his ship into a calm sea, whilst the violence of the hurricane spent itself at a few cables' length from the Forward.

  • The block of ice, at least a hundred feet high, was only about a cable's length from the Forward, and threatened to pound her under it.

  • Sound waves in air, as given out by the piano, vary in length from, say, four inches to forty feet, those having the shorter wave length being the higher pitched tones.

  • The best place for anchorage is directly opposite the town, in five fathoms, a cable's length from shore.

  • This island of Juan Fernandez is about fifteen English miles in length from E.

  • On the way to Borneo, they passed the island of Bolutam, [Palawan or Paragua,] which is 180 miles in length from N.

  • Mindanao, and about four leagues from that island, being about thirty-eight leagues in length from N.

  • Length from waist to crotch at front 9 ins.

  • Length from neck to crotch at centre back 12 ins.

  • Rennell estimates the area of the "recipient," together with that covered by the main current, as being 2000 miles in length from E.

  • It has been ascertained that this new-raised country is upwards of fifty miles in length from east to west, running parallel to that line of subsidence before mentioned, which caused the grounds around Sindree to be flooded.

  • Ten minutes more and the frigate was hove-to a cable's length from the Rebiera, and our hero lowered down his other quarter boat to go on board.

  • The leaves of the root are spoon-shaped, and those of the stems broadly lance-shaped, varying in length from 3in.

  • The leaves are produced in compact tufts on the extremities of the old or woody parts of the shrub, which become procumbent in aged specimens; the leaves vary in length from 2in.

  • This finely-tinted foliage is elegantly disposed by means of the stalks, which bend in various ways; they vary in length from 4in.

  • From measurements taken from the living animal the dimensions were: Length from tip of tail to tip of spine, in front of head 1.

  • Length from tip of nose to pectoral fin 2 feet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "length from" 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 quite; bitter almond; calm and; damp places; degrees south; direction from; eighteen feet; length arrived; length compelled; length figure; length figures; length from; length remarked; length said; length they; lengthened period; limited period; meet once; much dreaded; often find; our arrival; solitary life; spake unto; steady stream; strong coffee; young queen