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Sentences ending with circumference

The crater of Vesuvius, as I have before remarked, is a modest pit about a thousand feet deep and three thousand in circumference; that of Kilauea is somewhat deeper, and ten miles in circumference. [5]
See the iron tire brought hot from the furnace and laid around the smoking circumference. [6]
What we saw there was simply a circular crater--a circular ditch, if you please--about two hundred feet deep, and four or five hundred feet wide, whose inner wall was about half a mile in circumference. [5]
A string was procured and carefully carried round the trunk, above the spread of the roots and below that of the branches, so as to give the smallest circumference. [6]
He means a penny in thickness as well as in circumference. [5]
I will not offer any figures of my own, but give official ones--those of Commander Wilkes, U.S.N., who surveyed it and testifies that it is twenty-seven miles in circumference! [5]
At the border of the Desert lies Carson Lake, or The "Sink" of the Carson, a shallow, melancholy sheet of water some eighty or a hundred miles in circumference. [5]
He wore a hat measuring six and seven eighths on the _cephalometer_ used by hatters, which is equivalent to twenty-one inches and a quarter of circumference. [6]
He was exactly five feet six inches in height, and six feet five inches in circumference. [4]
For the fourth dilution it would take 10,000 pints, or more than 1,000 gallons, and so on to the ninth dilution, which would take ten billion gallons, which he computed would fill the basin of Lake Agnano, a body of water two miles in circumference. [3]

Sentences containing circumference two or more times

By triangulation Lord Longlegs determined its altitude; Herr Spider measured its circumference at the base and computed the circumference at its top by a mathematical demonstration based upon the warrant furnished by the uniform degree of its taper upward. [5]

More example sentences with the word circumference in them

This is a young tree, with a future before it, if barbarians do not meddle with it, more conspicuous for its spread than its circumference, stretching not very far from a hundred feet from bough-end to bough-end. [6]
Three miles away was a saw-mill and some workmen, but there were not fifteen other human beings throughout the wide circumference of the lake. [5]
The cart stood untended in the street; and selecting a large orange, which would measure twelve inches in circumference, I turned to look for the owner. [4]
He took a tract of land sixty miles in circumference and set to work to make this park and build this palace and a road to it from Paris. [5]
I took occasion to measure one of the lemons, called a citron-lemon, and found its circumference to be twenty-one inches one way by fifteen inches the other,--about as big as a railway conductor's lantern. [4]
When I measured this in 1837, it was twenty-four feet eight inches in circumference at five feet from the ground; growing larger above and below. [6]
It was more than forty miles in circumference, and its walls enclosed buildings surpassing in size and grandeur even the Pyramids and the temples of Thebes. [10]
She asserted her rights even over her son, though he was the centre of a web whose threads reached to the furthest circumference of the known world. [10]
From the centre of our country to its circumference, nothing was talked of but Mr. Noble's terrible revelation, and the people were furious. [5]
The largest, tomb of Alyattes, still measures 3400 feet in circumference, and the length of its slope is 650 feet. [10]
The Towers are not tall, but are low in proportion to their circumference, like a gasometer. [5]
There is a noble old wreck of an elm at Hatfield, which used to spread its claws out over a circumference of thirty-five feet or more before they covered the foot of its bole up with earth. [6]
Each spoke has its own territory in the circumference, for which it is responsible. [6]
It looks as if it might be roofed, from centre to circumference, with inverted saucers. [5]
With sailors, the girth of the neck and the depth of the instep are greater, whilst the circumference of the chest, waist, and hips is less, than in soldiers. [1]
He got on but slowly, for the nearer he approached his destination the denser was the crowd of inquisitive citizens, who stood closely packed round the vast circumference of the building. [10]
She regarded with a tinge of awe the vast expanse of tent that rose before her eyes, the wind sending ripples along the heavy canvas from circumference to tent pole. [9]
The earth is 1492 miles in circumference. [5]

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