whole-length
extended to or having its entire length; not shortened or abridged: a whole-length report.
portraying, reflecting, or accommodating the full length of the human figure: a whole-length sofa; a whole-length portrait of the general.
a portrait or statue showing the full length of its subject: The painting gallery had a roomful of whole-lengths.
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How to use whole-length in a sentence
She turned back into the room and began to walk to and fro down its whole length without stopping, without resting.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinI asked him if that amounted to one shell per yard and he said the whole length of the trench was less than 100 yards.
Gallipoli Diary, Volume I | Ian HamiltonThis law itself went the whole length, and assumed the full and complete power.
Select Speeches of Daniel Webster | Daniel WebsterWe heard of a man who determined to stick to a Darling boat and travel the whole length of the river.
Over the Sliprails | Henry LawsonThe next day I went for Trieste in a steamer, down the whole length of the Adriatic.
Letters to his wife Mary Borrow | George Borrow
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