Example Sentences

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Like walking museum plaques, they glided through rooms in silk brocade gowns, panniers extending their hips to improbable widths, dispensing facts about furnishings.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

The researchers experimentally identified the flood conditions that make pedestrians vulnerable and utilized computer simulations of different city block patterns, building heights, and street widths to assess the configurations that best protect people.

From Science Daily • Apr. 9, 2024

For each material, you can choose among a variety of depths and widths.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 28, 2023

Authorities have been working to send multiple pipes of differing widths through the debris to create a micro-tunnel through which the workers can be brought out.

From BBC • Nov. 24, 2023

We built up one side of the wagon with twelve-inch widths of lumber we called bang boards.

From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck