At closer range, it was even more battered, a three-foot length of chipped hardwood, age-hardened as a diamond.

The kid came back with a three-foot length of electrical wire from a trash pile.

The guy was sleeping, and I was standing over him with a three-foot length of pipe, I found in the bathroom.

The two were stacking metal tubes of three-foot length.

In the kitchen I found a ball of twine and cut off a three-foot length.

They are sold in three-foot lengths.

She handed me a three-foot length of gold chain, which I took and wrapped around my wrist.

Then, and still without a word, he bent over and picked up a three-foot length of inch-and-a-quarter steel.

With a sharp rock, he managed to break off about a three-foot length of one tube, at one of its joints.

The starter cord was a three-foot length of rope that wrapped tightly around the engine's flywheel.