It swung in, revealing a foot-wide brass control wheel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ice Hunt]

A foot-wide ledge stretched along the side of the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Demon Queen] Reference

So you can more easily use the foot-wide unit, in your backyard say.    From Wordnik.com.  [First Look: Great sounds, good battery from new portable Bose] Reference

That was open a foot-wide space, and somebody inside it sobbed sickeningly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

Now we cowered within a yard-deep niche; now we trembled upon a foot-wide ledge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Metal Monster] Reference

Baine was dividing the sand into foot-wide squares with the blade of a small shovel.    From Wordnik.com.  [To Say Nothing of the Dog]

That's why residents at SoHo's 40 Mercer have 12-by-15 foot-wide sliding book cases.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Luxury Home Must-Haves] Reference

Males will use their 75-pound, 7-foot-wide rack to attract females and fight with other males.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

He had jumped in the foot-wide irrigation canals that snaked around and had squealed in delight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barren] Reference

Justin tottered across a foot-wide ledge to the next plateau of rock that was spotted with lichens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cradle and All]

Following in their host's agile footsteps, Ross Ed hopped lithely across a foot-wide stream of army ants.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

It is no longer enough to have marble-clad bathrooms, a kitchen full of custom appliances, and foot-wide carved moldings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Haute High-Tech Homes] Reference

An alarm bell from a student trying to go out the emergency exit that is marked with three foot-wide eye-height stop signs.    From Wordnik.com.  [2007 November « Attempting Elegance] Reference

He put them down at her feet, then moved across the little foot-wide escape route and seated himself on the lip of the doorway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Call Of The Heart]

They can slip through even the densest woods without snagging their 7-foot-wide antlers or betraying their presence with sound.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States] Reference

He was perched on a foot-wide ledge thirteen stories up the side of a building and he wasn't at all sure that that was worth a good shoe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mostly Harmless]

She was trapped by a two-hundred-foot drop on three sides, and the foot-wide escape route was guarded by the heavy Afghan, pistol in hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Call Of The Heart]

They descended into a shallow arroyo, jumped a foot-wide creek, clambered up the far side and immediately dropped into defensive crouches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cyber Way]

There are also three foot-wide STOP signs on the doors, at eye level, in red, octagonal in shape… all of the traditional STOP indicators.    From Wordnik.com.  [*beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep* « Attempting Elegance] Reference

Each contained a small screen, a card slot, a keyboard, and a mesh catch-bin under a foot-wide horizontal slit that reminded me of George Plumb's mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devil's Waltz]

Rescuers in Chile drilled a foot-wide borehole into a mine where 33 miners have been trapped for six weeks, marking a major step in efforts to get the men out.    From Wordnik.com.  [What's News: World-Wide] Reference

Visitors will be treated to a 14 x 6 foot-wide chocolate fall and a river of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference

We found it and stood over it -- a foot-wide circular hole extending downward.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond the Vanishing Point] Reference

A collision at 30,000 would look more like a nuclear explosion than a foot-wide crater.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newsvine - Get Smarter Here] Reference

The meteorite bounced off his hand and left a foot-wide smouldering crater in the tarmac.    From Wordnik.com.  [NEWS.com.au | Top Stories] Reference

Put simply, a little lump of mashed potatoes can look awfully lonely on a foot-wide plate.    From Wordnik.com.  [ajc.com - News] Reference

Specimens include the bones of a 17 foot-long carnivorous fish and a 15 foot-wide sea turtle.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The Eco-Eagle is meant for commercial use, cutting 5 ½-foot-wide swaths of grass at eight acres an hour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catholic Online > Daily Readings] Reference

Crawling against the wind along a wider ledge at the top, they came to a chasm, crossed by a foot-wide causeway.    From Wordnik.com.  [King of the Khyber Rifles] Reference

Furet walked admirably, with his little nervous legs, along the foot-wide causeways which separate the salt-mines.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vicomte De Bragelonne] Reference

The daring ironworker strides confidently across a foot-wide steel girder, hundreds of dizzying feet above the ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

We can find no record of how many car accidents were caused by this 200 foot-wide soccer player billboard in Munich, Germany.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cracked: All Posts] Reference

"It was a big one," Holt said of the blast, which blew the vehicle's engine 200 yards away and left a seven foot-wide crater in the road.    From Wordnik.com.  [Navy Times - News] Reference