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Example sentences for "three feet"

  • It is from two to three feet long, is called ebroo, and produces a kind of droning noise.

  • Five miles to the south-east from where we stood it communicated with a large lagoon; after leaving which, I was informed there was only a depth of three feet, and a width of one eighth of a mile.

  • On the two central cross-bars also is laid a platform running one half the length of the hut, floored on one side, forming a partial upper story, with a space of three feet between it and the ceiling.

  • The shortest metre of which iambic verse is composed, in lines successively, is that of three feet; and this is the shortest metre which can be denominated lines, or verses; and this is not frequently used.

  • This day as usual many medusae were seen; and also a snake, three feet long; its back was black, the belly yellow, and the tail striped black and white.

  • At Rampore I found the temperature of the ground, at three feet depth, varied from 87.

  • A few old and very stunted shrubs of laurel and Symplocos grow on its bleak surface, and these are often sunk from one to three feet in a well in the horizontally stratified sandstone.

  • In 1871, two travellers making a portage to Hay River near its entrance into Great Slave Lake saw countless numbers of buffalo skulls piled on the ground two or three feet deep.

  • The biggest log in this raft was a twelve-foot log with twenty-six inches diameter at the small end, which cut three hundred and sixty-three feet of lumber.

  • The snow belt was five or six miles wide, and the snow two or three feet deep.

  • It is two or three feet in the deepest places, and probably has been three times as deep when freshly fallen, but it is now solid and icy.

  • Our fire kindled on the snow, would be two or three feet below on the ground, by morning.

  • Putting her arm through Virginia's, she sauntered off with the pair toward the parade grounds, Clarence maintaining now a distance of three feet, and not caring to hide his annoyance.

  • Now hickory and maple, oak and cottonwood, stood shivering in three feet of water on what had been a league of dry land.

  • The second pool is four hundred and twenty-three feet long, one hundred and sixty feet wide at the upper end, two hundred and fifty feet wide at the lower end, and thirty-nine feet deep at that end.

  • The vaults are two hundred and seventy-three feet long, one hundred and ninety-eight feet wide, and about thirty feet high.

  • After going about twenty miles, we lost the land and trees: the channel of the river, which lay through reeds, and was from one to three feet deep, ran northerly.

  • The banks were not more than three feet high, and the marks of flood on the shrubs and bushes showed that at times it rose between two and three feet higher, causing the whole country to become a marsh, and altogether uninhabitable.

  • There is probably from two to three feet more in it than usual; the breadth varies considerably, in some places not more than sixty feet, in others two hundred.

  • The tree, he says, 'is not more than two or three feet in diameter, but attains one hundred or one hundred and twenty feet in height.

  • They are each some two or three feet high, of the very finest mud, which leaves no feeling of grit on the fingers or tongue, and dries, of course, rapidly in the sun.

  • One Palmiste was pointed out to me, in a field near the road, which had been measured by its shadow at noon, and found to be one hundred and fifty-three feet in height.

  • From twenty-two to twenty-three feet is the ordinary maximum of the very largest trees.

  • The older memories came up but vaguely; an American finds it as hard to call back anything over two or three centuries old as a sucking-pump to draw up water from a depth of over thirty-three feet and a fraction.

  • It is long, but not more than from two to three feet deep.

  • They were small, from four to eight inches square, and the walls from two to three feet in thickness.

  • The thickness of the main wall at base is within an inch or two of three feet; higher up, it is less, diminishing every story by retreating jogs on the inside, from bottom to top.

  • At the other end was a trough divided into compartments, in each of which was a sloping stone slab, two or three feet square, for grinding corn upon.

  • The roof is than covered with a double range of thin boards, except an aperture of two or three feet in the center, for the smoke to pass through.

  • They were two feet four inches, two feet six inches, two feet nine inches, three feet, and in rare cases three feet six inches thick.

  • If cavalry charges artillery and is not dealt with by other forces, one gun is captured with a loss to the cavalry of four men per gun for a charge at three feet, three men at two feet, and one man at one foot.

  • If it remains stationary and mounted and the enemy charges, one charging sabre will kill five stationary sabres and put fifteen others three feet to the rear.

  • I have no doubt these stones are two or three feet thick, and there could be no difference in the sound they would make if struck, whether they were filled in solid behind or had no backing.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    came around; three classes; three cups; three dayes; three drops; three eggs; three eyes; three fathom; three hundred; three kingdoms; three leaves; three lights; three nights; three others; three ounces; three persons; three places; three points; three ranks; three species; three squadrons; three syllables; three tablespoonfuls; three vertical; three words; three years