The foot-thick walls completely blocked out the traffic noise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Where The Butterflies Are] Reference

Bosch put a foot-thick stack of files in it along with the Rolodex.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Coyote]

The foot-thick walls are as insulated as walls using typical 6-inch fiberglass batts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Living in Dryden: July 2004 Archives] Reference

She contended a foot-thick file of government papers obtained through the family's use of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hall, Harley H.] Reference

The Cohansey consists of fine - to coarse-grained quartzose sand with foot-thick lenses of gravel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacques Cousteau National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Jersey] Reference

This consisted of two massive valves, twice as high as a man, made of foot-thick timbers sheathed in bronze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan]

Yet the building which housed Tesoros and La Mariposa was very old, with foot-thick walls to keep out heat and cool.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death on the River Walk]

He held a carved staff in one age-motttled right hand and there was a foot-thick book under the palm of his left hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ilium]

It went right through a foot-thick wall built of re-bar and concrete, causing a hole approximately two feet in circumference.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tour-Bus Diaries: Visiting Jim Crow in his Bethlehem Condo] Reference

Walls A foot-thick combination of solid wood and hard-foam exterior insulation seals homes more efficiently than typical shells.    From Wordnik.com.  [Huf House's DIY Mansions] Reference

Thick silver busbars con­nected that to a plastic box with knobs and dials on top, and also to a foot-thick sphere of gray lead.    From Wordnik.com.  [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]

I'd pay for my laziness later, when the computer handed me a foot-thick list of lightemitting machinery and I had to wade through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Minnesota Menage] Reference

A diabolically designed prison, with cells made of foot-thick steel on three sides and unbreakable, two-foot-thick glass on the front.    From Wordnik.com.  [Demon From The Dark] Reference

This foot-thick stack of papers will be known to you as your "football," and what's actually in your football is of no real consequence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prioleau Alexander: Corporate Wisdom: Superiors and Subordinates] Reference

The explosion shattered windows two stories below and left a yawning crater in foot-thick concrete walls stained by rain, grime and age.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

The ground contained a foot-thick layer of pine needles that gave way often beneath Bosch's boots as he tried for purchase on the incline.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Bones]

And those foot-thick unabridged dictionaries found in libraries held a place of honor on a lot of handmade shelves, easily seen through cell bars.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenneth Hartman: Reading In Prison: Ten Books; No Hard Covers] Reference

Unknown to the public, attorneys for the Disney family and the county were still wrangling over leases and hadn't signed all the documents in the foot-thick stack.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Temple Of Doom?] Reference

Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs, out of its foot-thick bark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leaves of Grass] Reference

Out of its stalwart trunk and limbs—out of its foot-thick bark.    From Wordnik.com.  [Song of the Redwood-Tree] Reference

The lodge was warm and welcoming, filled with light and ribbed with foot-thick fir beams.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Pull out 760 pilings, pour concrete for 30 hours, lower foot-thick plastic wall ... just add fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals] Reference

An opening, two feet in diameter, in a foot-thick metal hull, with the hinged door leaning inward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Slan]

The foot-thick outside walls were poured into forms at the construction site and tilted into place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daily News - News] Reference

The cubes rest on giant springs to dampen vibration and sit in a concrete cube with foot-thick walls.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference

That is, until they see owner J. Ryan Alcorn's product storeroom and its massive foot-thick steel door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal] Reference

Ignorance is no excuse, know and obey all 750, plus the laws already in the foot-thick books that exist.    From Wordnik.com.  [AroundTheCapitol.com] Reference

Gupton stops walking where a stained mat of corn stubble slopes into a foot-thick sea of gooey, gray muck.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

SCS said past testing had discovered a foot-thick layer of waste fill in the footprint of the Company F building.    From Wordnik.com.  [wacotrib - Latest News Headlines] Reference

By the end of 2009 a foot-thick pile of differential calculus has elapsed and larger atomic structures have been solved.    From Wordnik.com.  [Everything2 New Writeups] Reference

Just past the crossover, observant drivers may be able to see a foot-thick white paint marking perpendicular to the freeway.    From Wordnik.com.  [daytondailynews.com - News] Reference

I suggest that we make the hull of foot-thick lux metal and line it on the inside with relux wherever we want it to be opaque.    From Wordnik.com.  [Islands of Space] Reference

The doors are foot-thick bronze.    From Wordnik.com.  [Step on a Crack]

Behind me is a foot-thick slab of concrete.    From Wordnik.com.  [365 tomorrows » 2008 » January : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day] Reference

Berlet also uncovered a foot-thick stack of printouts bearing the names of "all 24,000.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines] Reference