Glistening yard-long fangs sent dirt and rock chips flying.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyber Way]

On the grassy path at his feet a yard-long arrow of red light appeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tek Lab]

The teacher pointed to the first line of words with her yard-long stick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mao's last dancer]

And just last week I lost a pigeon in the chicken coop to a yard-long boa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Burning Rubber and Snake Prevention] Reference

His fatal yard-long bolts pierced demons through, pinning them to the earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]

Asparagus officinalis asparagus bean (black-eyed pea, cowpea, yard-long bean).    From Wordnik.com.  [14. Saving seeds for planting] Reference

The snakes typically stretched their yard-long bodies on the silty marsh bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mission Of Honor]

Who wore baggy pants with heavy chains, a yard-long chain attached to his wallet.    From Wordnik.com.  [grouse Diary Entry] Reference

Behind them, resplendent Royal Guardsmen salute her entrance with yard-long sabers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince Sihanouk and Jacqueline Kennedy at Angkor & Phnom Penh - 1967 | Angkor Wat Apsara & Devata: Khmer Women in Divine Context] Reference

She blinked, watched as he smoothed the yard-long strip, folding it to a narrow band.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Perfect Lover]

The bloated book belongs in a category with the yard-long hot dog and the stretch limo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Book Reviewing] Reference

Snatching up a yard-long scrap of metal from the wreckage of the disk, he flung himself upon Zehru.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zehru of Xollar] Reference

They had yard-long, membranous wings through which the sun shone brown, and angular, pointed skulls.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dig]

The whip was a yard-long strip of untanned cowhide, an inch thick at the grip and tapering to a point.    From Wordnik.com.  [A different flesh]

Authorities say 400 to 500 people are missing and there were as many as 1,000 people on the 500 yard-long bridge.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 25, 2007] Reference

It was another of the yard-long egg-shaped crystals of translucent amber like the one that had been materialized in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil Crystals of Arret] Reference

When they did, they were met by the yard-long knife in the hand of the most terrible knife fighter of the Hyborian Age.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Wanderer]

The parlor was hot and airless and had a yard-long encyclopedia set and a bunch of religious statuettes on a low shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Echo Burning]

There is still time to order and plant the heat-loving beans, limas and yard-long and the (decorative) purple hyacinth bean.    From Wordnik.com.  [Groundwork: Planting that rises above] Reference

Tobas asked, but no one bothered to answer as a yard-long blast of flame followed Arden, narrowly missing the top of his head.    From Wordnik.com.  [With a Single Spell]

Opposite each of the five grooves in the seat, perhaps foot out from it, a yard-long metal cable was neatly welded to the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natives of Space]

Claus Iversen, Avrasya consult's supervisor of marine works, waves a yard-long piece of rebar curved at one end like a shepherd's crook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quake Fears, Ancient Finds Have Europe-Asia Tunnel on Nonstop Delay] Reference

He walked in with his yard-long strides, looking stiffly straight in front of him, and sat down in his place with a most unperturbed air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Brothers Karamazov] Reference

Ordinary iron mail could not resist the heavy, yard-long arrows, which fell with murderous effect upon the bodies of men and horses alike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Early European History] Reference

Mach set down the toy, concentrated on an image of a yard-long blade formed of stainless steel, and sang: "I'll be bored without a sword!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Out of Phaze]

From the millisecond an arrow is released, a bow turns into a yard-long tuning fork that can produce more than enough sound to alert game.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Whitetail Deer Hunter's Guide to Buying a Quiet Compound Bow] Reference

Prominently displayed on the table is a Sinbad-style ceremonial sword, its shiny yard-long blade sheathed in its elaborate metal scabbard.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Belly-Dancing Psychologist] Reference

He was within reach of the yard-long Zhaibar knife that glittered in the intruder's fist, and he knew the desperate quickness of a hillman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bloody Crown of Conan]

Thus he had the cub and the pup on the same yard-long halter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nomads of the North] Reference

Held together by the yard-long rope to which they were fastened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nomads of the North] Reference

Guy Isbel returned with a yard-long telescope, which he passed to his father.    From Wordnik.com.  [To the Last Man] Reference

Trees leaned over it and into it, while the canoe rested on a yard-long beach of sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wild Olive] Reference