You know, and it was suddenly a five-foot-long, 60-pound fish.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2007] Reference

With the toe of her right sneaker, she nudged a five-foot-long board toward him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate]

The five-foot-long rupture was just three or four feet above the passenger windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Southwest's Solo Flight in Crisis] Reference

He leaned heavily on the five-foot-long rod, and it supported him on the long ascent.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riverwind the Plainsman]

That's the color of the special five-foot-long crayon that Crayola awarded to Eric Carle last week.    From Wordnik.com.  [End-o'-the-Week Kid-Lit Roundup] Reference

He turned around to help Oaxyctl, watching the five-foot-long spears on the mongoose-man's back warily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

Whirling, he was confronted by the Sight of a five-foot-long arthropod lying on its left side on his bed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nor Crystal Tears]

He shook his bushy head, and stroked his claymore the five-foot-long, two-handed sword he carried everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

A five-foot-long snake helped identify a brain region associated with courage, according to a study in Neuron.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Twins Who Test Better] Reference

Paws dropped to sheaths, and in an instant each one held a five-foot-long sword with razor-sharp serrated edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day of the Dissonance]

She bought two large cans of butane and borrowed the storekeeper's awning rod — a five-foot-long piece of steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Coffin Dancer]

The Lee's fill a five-foot-long stainless steel tub crafted especially for this activity with fresh soft shell lobsters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Clark: Sea-Chic: Sail The Heritage, No Dramamine Needed] Reference

They kept running, straining up the slope, pausing only once to cross a five-foot-long spiked pit that blocked their way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

DeMille solved the problem by walking onto the set holding a five-foot-long California king snake, ominous-looking but harmless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Empire of Dreams] Reference

Oaxyctl held up a finger, then carefully picked up a sheaf of five-foot-long spears and slung them over his back with the leather strap.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crystal Rain] Reference

Michael took four five-foot-long strands and worked them into the mortar joints three feet off the ground, spread at five-foot intervals.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Thieves of Darkness] Reference

The coelacanth was a five-foot-long fish thought to have died out sixty-five million years ago, until a specimen was pulled from the ocean in 1938.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jurassic Park]

No one could figure out how to eat with five-foot-long chopsticks--the problem could not be solved by any of them and they were crying with hunger and frustration.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Christmas Eve and You Know What That Means:] Reference

His short, stubby legs barely reached the ground, unlike his slim five-foot-long arms, which easily stroked the floor in the accepted attitude of expectant contemplation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jed the Dead]

The people were staring longingly at this banquet but, as they had been told they could only eat with five-foot-long chopsticks, they were unable even to taste any of it.    From Wordnik.com.  [It's Christmas Eve and You Know What That Means:] Reference

Hickory, twirling colour into a glowing paperweight on the end of a slender five-foot-long steel rod called a punty iron, looked extremely relieved at my return from the races.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shattered]

One afternoon, she reports to Lowell, a five-foot-long snake passed by with the feet of a baby bird waving feebly in his mouth, the parent birds shrieking and having hysterics.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theirs Truly: The Lowell-Bishop Letters] Reference

Martin Mejia/Associated Press Perhaps the most ingenious device developed by rescuers is the paloma -- or pigeon, as in carrier pigeon -- a five-foot-long hollow cylinder that works like a pneumatic tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Technology Provides Help for Miners] Reference

Mr. Freer shows a five-foot-long Burmese python to visitors at the.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Rupert Murdoch is going to hand over a giant five-foot-long check to.    From Wordnik.com.  [Queer Sighted] Reference

A five-foot-long python was found and captured at a New York City gas station.    From Wordnik.com.  [--1010 WINS Newswatch Headlines] Reference

NEW YORK - A five-foot-long python was found and captured at a New York City gas station.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest News] Reference

A fat and happy five-foot-long rattlesnake was recently captured and released in El Dorado.    From Wordnik.com.  [SacBee -- Latest News] Reference

The guy's 50-ish and ponytailed, and he's been eyeing Surface Lure, a five-foot-long metal fishing lure by artist Mike Slattery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

The five-foot-long hole tore open in the passenger cabin roof area shortly after the plane left Phoenix for Sacramento, Calif., Friday afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBC | Top Stories News] Reference

The five-foot-long crocodile survived and was being treated for an injured eye and several broken teeth, the Townsville Bulletin newspaper reported.    From Wordnik.com.  [Top Stories: BreakingNews.ie] Reference

Instead the team packed small explosives into a five-foot-long, six-inch-wide tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [Popular Science - New Technology, Science News, The Future Now] Reference