Thickness

Examples

• An ordinary optic nerve is about the thickness of a thread, but his is like a cord. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I am all right, Sir,' replied Mr. Stiggins, in a tone in which ferocity was blended with an extreme thickness of utterance; 'I am all right, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• These are at the same distance apart that the thickness of the strip is required to be. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Other shells have been invented carrying a high explosive and capable of penetrating armour plates of great thickness, and exploding after such penetration has taken place. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Some of these formations, which are represented in England by thin beds, are thousands of feet in thickness on the Continent. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• Or sediment may be deposited to any thickness and extent over a shallow bottom, if it continue slowly to subside. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• He gave his throat a thorough rake round, as if it were the duty of every person not to be mistaken through thickness of voice. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Instead of these articles being made of sheets of rolled copper and silver, a silver plate of any desired thickness is applied to the base metal by electricity. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Robert Jordan drank half the cup of wine but the thickness still came in his throat when he spoke to the girl. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• We have seen in Section 288 that the amount of current which can safely flow through a wire depends upon the thickness of the wire. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• In England an application of it in thin solution had been made by a Mr. Macintosh, who spread it between two thicknesses of thin cloth to form Macintosh water-proof coats. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• If it be soft it should be covered with a few thicknesses of newspaper. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Cores were made of cast iron, others of forged iron; and still others of sheets of iron of various thicknesses separated from each other by paper or paint. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He snipped away at the black paper, then separated the two thicknesses and pasted the profiles on a card and handed them to me. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.

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