height - use in sentences

Preposition: of

  • meter: The Sycamore can reach a height of 30 meters.
  • foot: The video camera is located on an inside wall directed toward the main entrance door, at a height of 9 feet.
  • boom: This was at the height of the dot.com boom.

Converse of object

  • reach: The Sycamore can reach a height of 30 meters.
  • adjust: Set the post in place, and adjust the height as necessary with more mix.
  • dado: Wall tiling from Porcelanosa will be fitted to dado height in bathrooms and shower rooms and to full height in shower enclosures.
  • mow: Makes a very high quality playing surface with a compact and dense sward with a mowing height of just 5mm.

Adjective modifier

  • dizzy: He is also a keen adventurer planning to scale the dizzy heights of Mount Everest in 2007.
  • adjustable: Adjustable seat height, padded head support, padded safety restraint.
  • heady: He started his working life in the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank before giving up the heady heights of finance for writing.
  • lofty: I begin to realize that they are acrobats aiming at loftier heights than those of the dome.
  • giddy: I hardly expected to be able to complete it, let alone achieve the giddy heights of Senior Honors!
  • maximum: What is the maximum height a 215mm thick wall can be raised to?

Modifies a noun

  • adjustment: The first of these tools to be implemented in the Bath Model was a height adjustment slider.

Noun used with modifier

  • waist: Cat and Mouse Everyone should stand in a circle holding the chute stretched out at about waist height.
  • ceiling: White bathroom suite with tiled surround to ceiling height.
  • eaves: The unit has a double timber door 1.81m wide x 2.0m high and an internal eaves height of 2.89m.
  • saddle: Step 3 For most people and bikes the correct saddle height corresponds to 109 per cent of the inseam ( crotch to ground ).
  • shoulder: Try to make the support high enough so that you don't have to use the hedge trimmer above shoulder height.
  • wave: Wave steepness: The ratio of wave height to wavelength.

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