Ericsson swung around as a foot-long piece of burning wood went sailing overhead.

Instead of banging a gavel, the auctioneers wave foot-long pieces of inch-thick green plastic telephone cable as each sale is made.

Below the strike indicator, we tied a foot-long piece of "amnesia," thick flourescent monofilament that shows which way the current sweeps the line.

He smiled at her, his eyes on that foot-long piece of plywood.

Tie on a foot-long piece of mainsheet line to the end of the shock cord.

The engine was still there, the foot-long piece of piping in its force field.

A giant eel that doesn't register on sonar capable of picking up a foot-long piece of tin twelve thousand feet below.

The operation was still producing new pieces of wreckage, including two foot-long pieces from two of the seven fuel-measuring rods in the center fuel tank.

A foot-long piece of bomb shrapnel that landed in Ettenberg is affixed to the wall under the painting.

A foot-long piece of wood protruded from the cotton sheath of the wing.