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  • She donned that garment by letting out her breath and hooking it up the front, and tolerated being that much more out of fashion by not having a fifteen-inch waist.

    red dust Ryn Cricket 2010

  • Could this little boy tell you about the therizinosaurid found in Utah, with fifteen-inch claws that look like something out of a teen slasher flick?

    HOUSE RULES JODI PICOULT 2010

  • And over the course of months, millions around the world thrilled to the sight of a fifteen-inch snowy white parrot with a tall yellow crest rocking out to his favorite song, “Everybody” by the Backstreet Boys.

    Birdology Sy Montgomery 2010

  • The horses were then secured with thirty-foot, one-inch-thick ropes, which were tied to fifteen-inch iron stakes driven deep into the ground.12 In addition, “sleeping parties” of twelve to twenty men each were posted around the horse herd.13 Mackenzie was taking no chances.

    EMPIRE OF THE SUMMER MOON S. C. Gwynne 2010

  • So are the fifteen-inch gun and the contraceptive.

    Thesis and Antithesis I: Private Property in a Cultural Civilization 2008

  • It can go over a fifteen-inch wall or climb a sixty-degree slope.

    The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

  • She asked fifteen volunteers to complete tasks that required concentration on a fifteen-inch monitor and then on a forty-two-inch screen.

    Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007

  • She asked fifteen volunteers to complete tasks that required concentration on a fifteen-inch monitor and then on a forty-two-inch screen.

    Find Your Focus Zone PhD Lucy Jo Palladino 2007

  • Being a big fan of the movie Spinal Tap, I suppose I should appreciate the humor in having a twenty-inch by fifteen-inch swimming pool in my backyard, but the situation is far from humorous.

    Archive 2007-02-01 1 Dinosaur 2007

  • It can go over a fifteen-inch wall or climb a sixty-degree slope.

    The Moses Expedition Juan Gómez-Jurado 2007

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