She glanced at the platter of two-inch-thick steaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Did You Say Twins]

Gingerly, I swung my right axe into the two-inch-thick ice.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told]

Rove got out his two-inch-thick loose-leaf binder titled “Bring It On.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plan of Attack] Reference

It was a two-inch-thick slab of armor steel on heavy, precision-bearing hinges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Unwise Child] Reference

Stepping into the room himself, he slammed the heavy, two-inch-thick fire door.    From Wordnik.com.  [Invasion]

He took the two-inch-thick stack of reports from Klein and gave him a mock salute back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trunk Music]

With the flames reflected on the two-inch-thick plaster walls, the room almost achieved a sense of human warmth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venom] Reference

The rest of that two-inch-thick code book is filled with surgical, radiological and interventional cardiology codes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

When he finished, he slowly closed the two-inch-thick biography of the young Mitch Rapp and made her plead her case.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Assassin] Reference

Even though this amounts to Test-Prep Lite, the two-inch-thick Study Guide is still fatter than any textbook I ever had.    From Wordnik.com.  [High-School Senior: I Took the SAT Again After 41 Years] Reference

She popped open the rings of the binder and pulled out the two-inch-thick sheaf of documents she had already read through.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Closers]

Mr. Arar was beaten on palms, hips, and lower back with a two-inch-thick electric cable and threatened with electric shocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jonathan Hafetz and Susan Lehman: Carving Up the Constitution] Reference

The main rotor only had to chop a few two-inch-thick branches off some trees, a maneuver not even hinted at in flight school.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chickenhawk]

"This is why we need to be on this," Miser said as he rubbed his hand across a two-inch-thick chip in one of the ballistic windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE NEWS BLOG] Reference

I lost our only map as well, as I slipped with every second step on the sloping hillside coated in two-inch-thick slide alder branches.    From Wordnik.com.  [Between a Rock and a Hard Place] Reference

A rope was looped around a two-inch-thick bar attached to his ankle irons, taken around his shoulders and his head drawn between his knees.    From Wordnik.com.  [Parrott, Thomas V.] Reference

I then delivered this two-inch-thick pardon application to the White House on December 11, more than five weeks before the pardon was granted.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Special Event: House Hears On Clinton Pardon of Marc Rich - February 8, 2001] Reference

They whipped his hands repeatedly with two-inch-thick electrical cables, and kept him in a windowless underground cell that he likened to a grave.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2005-02-01] Reference

The resulting pies resembled two-inch-thick omelets — stuffed with cheese and flecked with meat, topped by a heavy, flaky, dimpled crust baked golden brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Miracle of My Mother's Easter Pies] Reference

After the old man died, Pop, Albert, Walter, and I would meet in his honor each year at Longchamps Restaurant onEast 34thStreetto dine on two-inch-thick Porterhouse steaks.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Never Was] Reference

Sitting on the other side of a two-inch-thick piece of Plexiglas and talking into an old-style black telephone receiver, Dominici gave a sheepish look and said, “Perhaps.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lampshade] Reference

I said I knew where to go and, the barometer of my spirits dropping steadily, I trudged back through lesser sanctums to the corner office where a golden girl opened the two-inch-thick door to let me in.    From Wordnik.com.  [You Live Once]

We managed to turn "Western Europe" into "Westen Europe" on the two-inch-thick spine of one edition, the 72-point typo snuck by designers, typesetters, proofreaders and printers before a packer in the warehouse found it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doug Lansky: Lonely Planet Founder Recalls Worst Publishing Mistakes] Reference

I made it using all recycled oak ... except for the maple I used in the two-inch-thick pull-out cutting board.    From Wordnik.com.  [AllBusiness.com - Home Page RSS] Reference

He was beaten on his palms, hips and lower back with a two-inch-thick electric cable and on his stomach, face and the back of his neck by his captors 'fists.    From Wordnik.com.  [World Socialist Web Site] Reference

Thick concrete walls and three "acoustic slab" layers of two-inch-thick fiberglass and air separate the club, which is on the third floor of the building, from restaurant tenants below.    From Wordnik.com.  [angelenic.com] Reference

In some cases, Beahrs tries to replicate a Twain meal, such as a breakfast featuring coffee with fresh cream, buckwheat cakes, and an aged, two-inch-thick Porterhouse steak with butter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crosscut] Reference

The 856-page, nearly two-inch-thick volume did what all good science requires: check the work of fellow scientists to see if it stands up to a rigorous review of the available research, data and conclusions.    From Wordnik.com.  [chicagotribune.com -] Reference

“I’ll give you the short story,” he said as he placed a two-inch-thick file folder onto the table.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kennedy Detail] Reference

She went back downstairs, opened the two-inch-thick New York strip she’d bought at City Market, dredged it in olive oil, and rolled it in a combination of herbs and garlic powder.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Taint in the Blood]

We had our first brush with Intel's new mobile Core i7 processors in the Clevo W870CU, a behemoth of a notebook with a 17.3 "display, a two-inch-thick enclosure, and a GeForce GTX.    From Wordnik.com.  [Megite Technology News: What's Happening Right Now] Reference

Already legends: The two-inch-thick crab cake, fried-chicken sandwich, and spicy chick-and-sausage gumbo.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seattle Weekly | Complete Issue] Reference