diameter

Soldiers cram into tunnels with a diameter of around 4 feet, sleeping in bunkers that are cut through the side of these steel tunnels, Ukrainian troops say.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 22, 2026

For the Magic 8 Ball, it was figuring out how the answer block could float without developing air bubbles, since his version is about an inch in diameter.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 1, 2026

Upon arrival, the Fire Department located five separate spot fires, all about five feet in diameter.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

Roman has a 7.9-foot primary mirror, the same diameter as the Hubble Space Telescope's, along with two major scientific instruments.

From Science Daily ● Aug. 28, 2026

He’d brought the two coils of rope from the locker and he measured the diameter of them with the span of his hand and that by three and then counted the number of coils.

From "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy

An artist's impression of a red dwarf with a white dwarf binary companion behind, with the diameters shown to scale.

From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2026

Which is to say, Porsche invented an entirely new flat-six—different bore diameters and everything—just to clear 11 centimeters under the engine cover.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 30, 2025

Hailstones, some with diameters of around 2 inches, also fell over parts of the city.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2024

The larger, so-called coarse particles, have diameters between 2.5 and 10 micrometers; some examples of this type of particulate matter include wind-blown dust, fly ash and animal or vegetal particles.

From Salon ● Nov. 30, 2023

The neck diameters are around 5/6 to 4/5 of the mouths. a is somewhat greater through the body than it is high; b, nearly the same.

From Mohave Pottery by Michaell J. Harner