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.
• 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
• Roll each into a 20-to-24-inch long rope with an even diameter.
  — Kim Sunée, Anchorage Daily News, 9 Feb. 2023
• The small diameter bombs were designed to be fired from aircraft but have been adapted with rocket motors to launch from such systems.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 3 Feb. 2023
• The glass turntable has a diameter of 10 inches, a small dinner plate or a bag of popcorn will fit perfectly.
  — Andrea Wurzburger, Better Homes & Gardens, 31 Jan. 2023
• With a diameter of 40mm, the drivers are constructed from polyether ether ketone and have diaphragms made from polyurethane.
  — Mark Sparrow, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
• Santillana said the city would have needed to excavate 20 feet in diameter around the tree and five feet below to replant each tree.
  — Dorany Pinedastaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 13 Feb. 2023
• And these disaster responders also told us that when there is iron or steel to reinforce it, the diameter of that iron used is often too small to be effective.
  — ABC News, 13 Feb. 2023
• Enormous black holes have a big event horizon—with a diameter of millions of kilometers—whereas smaller ones have more minute event horizons, extending just tens of kilometers across.
  — Adam Mann, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
• Mini trampolines usually have a diameter of 40 inches, though the actual jumping area is a bit smaller.
  — Lacey Muinos, Health, 27 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 lake is in the center of a crater roughly 1,000 feet in diameter.
  — Kelsey Atherton, Vulture, 26 July 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 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
• 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 stems are green with purple splotches and coarse white hairs on the thick stalks, which may be 2 to 4 inches in diameter.
  — Arricca Elin Sansone, Country Living, 24 Aug. 2023
• The nebula has a diameter that is about 60 percent larger than the Earth's Moon in the night sky.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 17 Jan. 2024
• First, the diameter of the case, which is measured left to right, not including any knobs that stick out.
  — Brad Lanphear, menshealth.com, 11 May 2023
• The magnitude is the fraction of the sun's diameter covered by the moon during the partial eclipse.
  — Leah Sarnoff, ABC News, 4 Apr. 2024
• That makes its dimensions, including the diameter of the bone, the smallest yet found.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 6 Aug. 2024

Last Updated: 28 Sep 2024