Eighths Sentence Examples

eighths

  • Drywall typically comes in four-foot by five-foot sheets and in thicknesses between a quarter and five eighths of an inch.

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  • Cut the cake into sixths or eighths, place a circle of cupcakes in the center of your display, and arrange the cake slices around the circle as flower petals.

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  • There was no native coinage, the French 5-franc piece or dollar being the standard, and all sums under that amount were obtained by cutting up those coins into all shapes and sizes, which were weighed with small weights and scales into halves, quarters, eighths, twelfths and twenty-fourths of a dollar, and even reckoned down to the seven hundred and twentieth fraction of the same amount.

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