- a variation of 4 × 4.
four-by-four
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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The team organized the nozzles in a four-by-four array, which can pick up 16 spheroids simultaneously and place them on a bioink substrate quickly and precisely.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 3, 2024
It shows a four-by-four with a siren on its roof approaching the car moments after the accident.
From BBC ● May 8, 2023
A pioneer, too, proof that an electric four-by-four can tackle the most forbidding backcountry.
From New York Times ● Nov. 25, 2021
Some of us want to mount the works of local artists as four-by-four posters beautifying the fences designed to protect us from the toxic waste of burned-out buildings.
From Salon ● Sep. 24, 2021
Afterward, Haas, Creamer, and a Peruvian archaeologist, Alvaro Ruiz, drove a four-by-four through the back roads of the area between that excavation and the Fortaleza Valley.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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