How to Use diameter in a Sentence

diameter

noun

• What is the diameter of the tree trunk?
• Dig a hole that's two feet deep and three feet in diameter.
• The dotted line indicates the diameter of the circle.
• Drill rope holes using a drill bit the same diameter as the rope.
  — Kit Selzer, Better Homes & Gardens, 5 Oct. 2022
• Find a stick large enough to serve as the broom handle, and measure the diameter.
  — Terri Robertson, Country Living, 28 Sep. 2022
• New Zealand wool Smartwool uses is a third the diameter of a human hair.
  — Outside Online, 5 Oct. 2022
• The largest probe was 9 inches (22 centimeters) in diameter.
  — Christian Edwards, CNN, 7 Oct. 2022
• Climatologists also don’t know what will happen to the diameter of hurricanes.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 29 Sep. 2022
• Pumpkins being launched are pie pumpkins with approximately a 5-inch diameter.
  — Carol Kovach, cleveland, 11 Oct. 2022
• The chain should be equal to the length of the boat and the same diameter as the anchor rope.
  — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 9 Jan. 2023
• If the stump is 2 feet or more in diameter, clear a space that is 2- to 3-feet away from the stump.
  — Tim Johnson, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2023
• The crater is more than five miles in diameter and lies on the floor of the North Atlantic Ocean.
  — Popular Mechanics, 22 Dec. 2022
• The lake is in the center of a crater roughly 1,000 feet in diameter.
  — Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 2023
• Once you're cleared to dig your hole, the two most important things to get right are the diameter and depth of the hole.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 3 Feb. 2023
• The keys have a diameter of 5.6mm with 0.2mm of travel.
  — PCMAG, 15 July 2024
• This one holds trees up to 7 feet tall and up to 3.6 inches in diameter.
  — Casey Clark, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Nov. 2023
• The Big Ball weighs nearly six tons and is twelve feet in diameter.
  — Theara Coleman, The Week, 30 Dec. 2022
• The storm could produce 60 mph winds and hail over one inch in diameter.
  — Robert A. Cronkleton, Kansas City Star, 21 May 2024
• Or — for holes 2 to 4 inches in diameter — rats could be to blame.
  — Joan Morris, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• These rings can be one to 12 feet in diameter, and mushrooms may or may not be present.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, House Beautiful, 2 Aug. 2023
• The boilers were more than 15 feet in diameter and 20 feet long.
  — Doha Madani, NBC News, 21 June 2023
• The dome, 49 feet in diameter, will be on view through July 28.
  — Wendy Moonan, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 July 2023
• That means a tree with a trunk three inches in diameter would need three quarts per day.
  — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 12 Nov. 2023
• One of the vice presidents has a trunk more than ten feet in diameter.
  — Shannon Sims, Smithsonian Magazine, 28 Mar. 2023
• Cut a square of parchment paper slightly wider than the diameter of a pie plate, and press it into the base of the dish.
  — G. Daniela Galarza, Washington Post, 10 Nov. 2022
• Pork loin looks more like a roast and is about 5 inches in diameter.
  — Robin Miller, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2022
• But the interviewers did not provide the diameter of the ball, or the length and radius of the fuselage.
  — Jacob Bacharach, The New Republic, 12 Oct. 2023
• Most of the branches measured about 4 inches in diameter and had cut marks at the ends.
  — Aspen Pflughoeft, Miami Herald, 14 June 2024
• The fall is when trees put on the majority of their trunk diameter growth.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 1 Nov. 2024
• She was surrounded by three-foot diameter paper murals of Disney scenes attached to the wall with sticky putty that left dime-sized oil stains for months.
  — Heather M. Jones, Parents, 6 Nov. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Dec 2024