square inch
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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“Every square inch of this place has to be productive,” Yeh says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 8, 2025
“Her love for the children just reached every square inch of the school,” said Skipper, the Cahaba Heights parent of a second grader who moved to the neighborhood specifically for the school.
From Salon • Sep. 19, 2024
The military measures the force of blast waves in pounds of pressure per square inch, and the current safety guidelines say that anything below 4 PSI is safe for the brain.
From New York Times • May 2, 2024
Compressed air was pumped at hundreds of pounds per square inch through a nozzle full of a salty mix with a similar composition to seawater housed in an apparatus similar to a snow-making machine.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 8, 2024
Not a square inch of space was left free.
From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel
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