You may also be asked to read letters or numbers from a card held 14 inches from your face.

The bottom of the dry creek bed held three or four inches of water already from the previous rain.

Make sure to hold the lamp or dryer at least 18 inches from your skin.

The camera was held six inches above the ground to show a beaver's perspective as it fells a tree.

The health care provider will turn on the Wood's lamp and hold it four to five inches from the area being studied.

Fire is hot enough when you can barely stand to hold your hand 3 or 4 inches over rack for a few seconds.

Cook over moderately hot fire: you will be able to hold your hand 3 or 4 inches over rack for a few seconds.

His voice was booming, forcing me to hold the receiver eight inches from my ear.

It was held 18 inches above the rocky ground by an antigrav field.

She fell about four feet into a coffin-sized space that held eight inches of water.