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Example Sentences

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Considered the greatest UFC featherweight of all time, Volkanovski entered as a warm favourite, but was wary of the younger opponent standing five inches taller.

From Barron's

In contrast, her meetings with Pierre, who designed many of her looks for the inauguration, focus on finer details - an eighth of a inch on a collar or the cut of a lapel.

From BBC

It landed with such perfect precision that the branches of one of the trees came to a stop half an inch from a window, as if reaching out to stroke the glass.

From Literature

I hold the candle a few inches below the article, waving the flame back and forth.

From Literature

He was also 6 feet 7 inches, smoked cheap cigars and didn’t care if you liked him.

From MarketWatch