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Examples
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The Obamas bought a tenfoot wide strip of the side yard, which measured 7500 square feet.
"Clinton is pressed to say that Obama is not a Muslim. She does - but then she pulls it back." Ann Althouse 2008
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Thank you, Miss Hatton, she thought to herself as her feet touched the shingles—then she realized that she still had a tenfoot drop to the ground.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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Thank you, Miss Hatton, she thought to herself as her feet touched the shingles—then she realized that she still had a tenfoot drop to the ground.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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Thank you, Miss Hatton, she thought to herself as her feet touched the shingles—then she realized that she still had a tenfoot drop to the ground.
The Girls He Adored Jonathan Nasaw 2001
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Late in the summer, there were rumors of a hurricane, and like all the other kids on the beach we insisted on swimming in the tenfoot waves.
Songs of the Humpback Whale Picoult, Jodi, 1966- 1992
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We had landed in an LZ that had hundreds of tenfoot stakes in it.
Chickenhawk Mason, Robert 1983
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The foam-plastic wall rose in the wind and slapped hard against the bubble, over the tenfoot rip.
Tales of Known Space Niven, Larry 1975
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At the same time, we found the ground moist and trembling under our feet like a quagmire, insomuch that it was an easy matter to run a tenfoot pole up to the head in it, without exerting any uncommon strength to do it.
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Somebody else yelled out that the Bay Bridge had fallen into the Bay (actually, a tenfoot section of the upper level had fallen onto the lower level, and the Cypress structure section of the highway just east of the bay had collapsed.)
Sportsfrog.com 2009
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With regard to people she dislikes, she wouldn't go near them carrying a tenfoot pole.
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