Use "length" in a sentence

1. They gave me what I thought was a generous share at the time, a six inch length of quarter-inch titanium tubing

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2. Experiment with various strengths, length of time in sun, etc

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3. From tip to hilt, the blade's length matched the tower on which Onidas stood

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4. She passed her hands over his chin, natives either grew full length beards or had their facial hair genetically removed, so this roughness was something she seldom sensed and after the fifty Earth years since he'd left, it moved her in unexpected ways

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5. It didn’t help that he kept cutting off any potential escape route; he was always just at arms length away

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6. Today only a couple little salt lakes, one hundred and two hundred miles in length, marked the bottom of the sea that had been trapped in the highlands a thousand Earth years ago

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7. The trooper squints his eyes, holds the cards at arms length, reads them

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8. Whatever it was he talked about, he talked about it at length and wanted his chin scratched two or three times during the lecture

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9. He was pressed close to a cute little dark girl with a billow of curls who questioned him at length about the life of someone his size

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10. "The hillside they were cutting thru was made of them, I perfected this rig over about, let's see, maybe ten decades, maybe only four, but it was a length of time

11. Khalid then translates simultaneously for the pilot, who speaks at length

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12. she were frugal for a few years, and given the likely length of her life, then the glories

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13. John picks it up and soon they are sailing the football back and forth along the length of the cabin

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14. Her boots, brown and calf length, heeled but slim and forgiving, were the only

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15. Again she paused, apportioning to McManus the length of rope he needed to hang himself

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16. The charmer, co-liner and re-fluxor sections of the multi-partite Al-Harron were pure fabrication and the ship had a deployed length of 385,000 miles at

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17. He wore a neat medium length thick black beard and a brown military uniform without insignia of rank

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18. Somewhat self-consciously, I relate at length how well the meeting went, how impressed the Trustees appeared to be and everything

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19. Just as I had done with my own family, I tended to keep people at arms length, invariably watching human relationships unfold as if I were standing beyond a pane of glass, but here I was almost drifting into fantasy about one of my jailers

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20. The stubble on my chin was growing softer now that it was gaining its critical beard length and my hair was becoming ragged at the back of my neck

21. ‘Oh, not another one!’ he groaned, ‘You don’t know the problems I have trying to keep these teenage girls at arm’s length

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22. Deciding that, as it is my day off, I shall wear something different, I trawl through the wardrobe, digging out a flattering, mid-calf length woollen skirt in a pretty shade of deep blue that Nick hasn’t seen yet … with a pretty light blue top and my best gold necklace (a present from the school when I left) it would look smart and it would make me feel partyish

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23. On the next landing we walked through another set of identical utilitarian swing doors and into a large open space, a space that covered the entire width and length of the building

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24. His own property was almost three miles in length while that of the 'boundaryists' or 'nationalists' was almost three by five miles of almost contiguous ranchland just a little farther south of him

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25. For instance, the deployed length of the Al-Harron was noted as a third of a million miles and its mass/energy ratio was spec'd at

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26. She worked out that if she were frugal for a few years, and given the likely length of her life, then the glories of compound interest and stock markets might make her fabulously wealthy

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27. "I've been on big water and been on that kind of ship," Desa told her, "the whole length of the 'Toz from the Yakhan south to Kleggain Block

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28. I think anyone who's known me for any length of time knows I couldn't hide a bug in a forest of my words

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29. It must have been the length of time she had been with no one else, or maybe the fear that they had only a short time before Alan came to interfere, because while Tiytha was certainly attractive to her, she didn't think he was enough to get her this lusty in such a short time

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30. Between them they manhandled the two ruffians to the rubbish store, threw them in and rammed the door shut, using a nearby length of discarded metal bar to jam the door firmly

31. It's fur was shorter and woollier, it's three eyes were on unequal stalks, the big center one over a foot in length

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32. He followed and found himself on a porch that ran the full length of the house

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33. I spoke with his mother at length and she told me that it is only little Rissa (named for your Joris and a darling child) who gives him a reason to keep going

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34. “Most rattlers strike distance is twice their length,” she informed him

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35. is half the length of the previous step

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36. What they really had in common was length, she walked a mile on it, spending most of the time watching, a little thinking

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37. ” She held her at arms length and shook her shoulders, “you know he is the one! And I know for sure that he’s mad for you! But I haven’t said a thing, not a word came from my lips!” She was smiling at her

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38. Sam had seen some resentment building and had spoken at length with Jake about it

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39. He spoke at length about the sort of terrain we would encounter on our journey from Ciutedella to the Naveta

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40. It ran the length of the old school, and after two days without food, they had no problem finding the kitchen area

41. no more than an arms length,

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42. Her sandy blonde hair was shoulder length now, her face shined with a glow of happiness

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43. She and her dragon had spoken at length about what would take place and how she would change

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44. ' He picked up the canvas sack lying under his chair and with infinite care withdrew from it a small, pear-shaped violin and bow trimmed with bells along its length

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45. The mountain of the city was bigger than the pad of a thumb held at arm's length

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46. At the communal village oven in the open air, another local lady in her ankle length skirts and headscarf was busily shovelling out pastries from the oven with a long-handled hoe onto a wide wooden tray on a table standing freely in the road

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47. You can imagine his surprise when the old woman produced a long length of coiled rope from under her voluminous purple overcoat

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48. Sandy brown shoulder length hair was tied back from his face to revealed a rugged ruddy complexion and startling blue eyes

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49. We will check it out in the morning at great length

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50. They stand erect, responsible and confident with hands on hips in ankle length skirts and boots of leather, amused by the fashions of the visitors on the quayside

51. With his battered old shin pads tucked safely inside his knee length socks, he ran riot through every level of schoolboy and junior football, scoring record numbers of goals at every age

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52. Stood there was a little old man, all stooped and grey, with a sour looking fox terrier attached to his wrist by means of a length of packaging string

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53. "Not directly sir, but I did ask him about what would happen if the tangler was off for any length of time

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54. He looked for many things in his partners, varying their age, their hair colour, their breast size and the length of their legs as if he were a dictator’s wife in a shoe shop

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55. you open a shop that you realise the length and breadth of the Indian student

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56. Along the length of his left leg the great artists wove images and colours in a collage, in a riot of tone and line, just as if the contestant were a kaleidoscope

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57. They talked at length but words would not come from me

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58. Undeterred, however, the young man travelled the length and breadth of the country, escorting each and every one these beautiful and hopeful creatures to nightclubs, to restaurants and to his hotel bedrooms

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59. ‘Alastair, if you have not worked out that I would crawl the length of the high street on my knees if it meant I could be with you, you are not as bright as I thought!’ I replied, but he is not to be fooled, I can see that

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60. themselves up with iron bars, a pocketknife and a length of metal

61. runner prised open the kitchen window with a chisel and a length of

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62. I fall in love with a dress in pale green … full length and layered with an underskirt of a deep green silk with a sort of shimmery, floaty heavyweight pale green chiffon over the top with embroidered flowers round the edges

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63. He’s booked a table and, after giving his name to the waiter at the door, we’re shown straight to a table by one of the windows which run the length of the restaurant

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64. Her constant eye movement and protective manner indicated to Alexei that she had to be the Queens’ personal guard, Altera; Duncan had spoken of her at length

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65. If Alan wasn't under sentence, she would swing this vale around so the sun set down the length of it

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66. Instead the sun rose down the length of it and set into the mountain it was cut into

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67. ” I checked his leg length

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68. his leg length again, but to my surprise, there was no

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69. His leg length should have changed, but it

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70. Then I retested his leg length, and suddenly

71. sour looking fox terrier attached to his wrist by means of a length

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72. age, their hair colour, their breast size and the length of their legs as

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73. Along the length of his left leg the great artists wove images and

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74. Tometahin’s hold on her seemed a little like he was holding her up by her waist at arm’s length

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75. travelled the length and breadth of the country, escorting each and

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76. On a ledge outcropping that ran the entire length of the ship he saw to his

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77. I can pad that out to make it a reasonable length, then there’s the Italian years, a section on her life when she came back to look after her parents, the conversion of the house and setting up of the Foundation and the last section would be the last thirty years … I could even do a concluding section about the impact Danvers House has had on various women since it was set up

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78. They had a lot of it installed and it had upped their deployed length to three hundred eighty thousand miles, with the corresponding increase in scoop radius

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79. Her hair, which is shoulder length and mousy brown, is matted and dishevelled

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80. 16And the city lies foursquare, and the length is as large as the breadth: and he

81. The length and the breadth

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82. A seagull wheels away to the west, and disappears beyond the roof line of the old milking parlour, while crows mob a buzzard above the tree line that runs the length of the field below the farmhouse

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83. She'll wear her hair at shoulder length by the Spanish autumn

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84. He explained at some length that there was a language of hand

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85. Up there in the balconies people could be seen in robes, ornate, floor length, and heavy, trimmed in furs

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86. The Sportsman received the proffered rod, noted the brief specifications inscribed on it indicating its intended line weight, length, and date of manufacture, then he carefully looked over its construction, made a flick of the wrist gesture to test its flex and handed it back to Mr

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87. Harry, too, was able to walk the length of the Main Street up one side and down the other, care-free as you please

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88. At length, she sat quietly as her daughters absorbed as much of the information as they were able

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89. Ted reaches up, turns on the electric shower and pulls the shower curtain down the length of the bath

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90. The right hands: clockwise, the left hands: countering in alternating cadence in front of each twin as she moved very, very slowly away from her corner down the length of the deck

91. Her eyes darting around the length of the shore below her, she ran to the steps and stood uncertainly, searching for any hint that Mickey might have survived the fall

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92. ran the length of the upper floor giving access to

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93. climbed up the steps and walked the length of the walls as far as

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94. “Yes,” he said, “and this might be of interest to you, I was questioned at length by Jorma

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95. length of stout iron railing and sliding it across the causeway

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96. He envied her for the length of a moment, knowing she would always have his mother's counsel and ear

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97. Then she wets toilet tissue and cleans up the cut, which is no more than half a centimetre in length but it hurts like hell

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98. She had to keep him at arm’s length for that reason didn’t she? It was her unrequited love that had sent her two cabins down when they sailed

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99. Alistair explained at length that the twin organisations known

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100. The madness of taffeta and slurry cuts into his thoughts; maids a-milking dressed in chiffon and silk, wearing elbow length gloves and tiaras