twelve-inch
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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It’s big, roughly seven by nine feet, depicting a scene in an over-the-top teen-age girl’s bedroom from the seventies: twelve-inch TV, princess telephone, chemical colors, with a bedspread in the center.
From The New Yorker • Jun. 26, 2019
“Now, all your hard work and all you’ve made known/ Will be carved on a twelve-inch stone.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 9, 2017
Matsoukas now checks her work on a laptop with a compact twelve-inch screen.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 26, 2017
Nevertheless, Gurman and 9to5Mac have gathered together as much information as they can to project the look and specs of the new twelve-inch MacBook Air.
From Forbes • Jan. 9, 2015
I mumbled my problem to the pharmacist, some young, clean-cut guy in a lab coat who, one step up, had a good twelve-inch height advantage on me.
From "Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet" by Joanne Proulx
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