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    Use "length" in a sentence

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


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


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


    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


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


    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


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


    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


    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


    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


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


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


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


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


    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


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


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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


    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


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


    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


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


    35. is half the length of the previous step


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


    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


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


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


    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,


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


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


    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


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


    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


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


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


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


    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














































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    Synonyms for "length"

    length duration distance segment portion piece stretch extent span reach range measure diameter period interval term time continuance season spaciousness expanse expansion remoteness

    "length" definitions

    the linear extent in space from one end to the other; the longest dimension of something that is fixed in place


    continuance in time


    the property of being the extent of something from beginning to end


    size of the gap between two places


    a section of something that is long and narrow