WIDTH in a Sentence

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For WIDTH, below is one of 19 sentences:
The smallest, where the spine tapers away into the tail, is only two inches in width, and looks something like a white billiard-ball.

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 Meanings and Examples of WIDTH
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width
 n.  measurement of the extent of something from side to side
Classic Sentence:
1  The width of the continent might have spread between her and home instead of twenty- five miles of dusty road.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
2  The width and bigness of it, which had expanded her spirit an hour ago, began to frighten her.
Main Street By Sinclair Lewis
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER III
3  The largest, a middle one, is in width something less than three feet, and in depth more than four.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
4  The smallest, where the spine tapers away into the tail, is only two inches in width, and looks something like a white billiard-ball.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 103. Measurement of The Whale's Skeleton.
5  In the large and pleasant salon which extended across the width of the house, the Ratignolles entertained their friends once a fortnight with a soiree musicale, sometimes diversified by card-playing.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XVIII
6  The brook was irregular in its width, sometimes shooting through narrow fissures in the rocks, and at others spreading over acres of bottom land, forming little areas that might be termed ponds.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 32
7  A white, dull light fell from a large window, with tiny panes, on the left, which usurped the whole width of the room.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 6: CHAPTER I—NUMBER 62 RUE PETIT-PICPUS
8  They walked arm in arm, occupying the whole width of the street and taking in every Musketeer they met, so that in the end it became a triumphal march.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 5 THE KING'S MUSKETEERS AND THE CARDINAL'S GUARDS
9  The field of ice is almost a league in width, but I spent nearly two hours in crossing it.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 10
10  That wouldn't matter, though, but she's no independence in her views, no width, nothing.
Fathers and Children By Ivan Turgenev
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIII
11  The Rutulians start up with a groan, and all the hill echoes round about, and the width of high woodland returns their cry.
The Aeneid By Virgil
Context  Highlight   In BOOK TWELFTH
Example Sentence:
1  The fabric is only available in a narrow width.
2  Measure the full width of the window.
3  Use a rule to measure the width of that cloth.
4  Measure the width of each side.
5  Measure the length and width of the gap.
6  The pattern goes across the full width of the material.
7  Find the largest possible width if the the perimeter is at most 64 cm.
8  In the case of a book where the average width is one inch, for example, the ideal length of elastic will be around 14 inches.