It was a two-inch-long, loosely spiraled worm, hovering absolutely still in midair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Spell For Chameleon]

Yes, some deft urban angler had managed to snag me with a two-inch-long fishing hook.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Urban fishin’] Reference

Inside the helmet an arrangement of six two-inch-long metal spikes projected downward from the top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death Stalks The Ruins]

It was a two-inch-long fragment of the enchanted mirror that his dead godfather, Sirius, had given him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows]

Which raises an interesting point: why was there a two-inch-long fish hook lying on the streets of Toronto?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nunc Scio » Blog Archive » Urban fishin’] Reference

A two-inch-long grey sharp-edged lump with darker grey slightly light-reflecting spots and streaks on its surface.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smokescreen]

They learn how to swim in the epididymis, the two-inch-long coiled tube that sits on the back of each of the testicles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Baby at Last!] Reference

But the VioClean results, we thought, were fair to middling: A two-inch-long thick black ink stain was reduced and lightened but not removed on the couch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out, Damned Spot! Chairs, Sofas Cleaned] Reference

Primis says that "while appreciated, it hasn't quite made it to my new office just yet" ... as for Platt, he's grateful to William Schwab, the Penn Presbyterian surgeon who removed the two-inch-long cyst.    From Wordnik.com.  [Larry Platt, Philadelphia Magazine Editor, Ousted After Testicular Cyst Prank] Reference

Rourke walked slightly stooped over, threading his way under low branches around bushes laden with two-inch-long thorns, bright-green-leaved brush swatting at his hands and thighs as he pushed his way past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Quest]

Instead, he had found a dirty window in an alleyway behind the club and had used his two-inch-long glass cutter to make a hole so small that it would probably not be noticed till someone came to clean the window, if that ever happened.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rostnikov's Vacation]

Against this backdrop, the protective lacquer covers of Buddhist scriptures, the intricate cloisonné of incense burners, and the statuettes of a Taoist adept fashioned into two-inch-long gold earrings become more than beautiful objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ming, Bricks and Beauty] Reference

The footprints suggest the pterosaur — a “pterodactyloid” with a wingspan roughly three feet wide (one meter) — flapped to stall its flight during landing, and then planted both its two-inch-long feet (five cm) simultaneously at a high angle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prehistoric landing tracks | clusterflock] Reference

And in this corner, a 1,200-pound brawler endowed with two-inch-long claws and a fiercely territorial attitude.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Globe and Mail - Home RSS feed] Reference

We tied up at a raft that Leach uses as a sorting station, and he pulled a basket of two-inch-long oysters out of the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

The first release of about 80 two-inch-long baby lizards, reared in special hatcheries, will take place at a National Trust nature reserve in Surrey on Thursday.    From Wordnik.com.  [BBC News | News Front Page | UK Edition] Reference

She inserted a thin two-inch-long needle and catheter through his upturned right wrist and into his radial artery, then sewed the line to his skin with a silk suture.    From Wordnik.com.  [NPR Topics: News] Reference

The two-inch-long squid live in the central Pacific, near coral reefs in shallow sand flats, where they bury themselves in the sand during the day and come out at night to feed and reproduce.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In times of chronic water shortages, environmentalists have sued to stop irrigation deliveries in order to save threatened two-inch-long delta fish that need infusions of fresh water diverted from agricultural use.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Because I have a penholder which was given to me when I was a child, and which I have used both then and since in the production of various great epics and immortal 'works,' until in these latter years it has seemed to me too heavy, and I have taken into service, instead of it, another two-inch-long instrument which makes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846] Reference

A two-inch-long silver Cross, and with sundry dramatic taps on the forehead, Jottings over the breast, and awful grimace of devoutness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Amazing Marriage — Complete] Reference

Because I have a penholder which was given to me when I was a child, and which I have used both then and since in the production of various great epics and immortal 'works,' until in these latter years it has seemed to me too heavy, and I have taken into service, instead of it, another two-inch-long instrument which makes Mr. Kenyon laugh to look at ” and so, my fancy has run upon your having the heavier holder, which is not very heavy after all, and which will make you think of me whether you choose it or not, besides being made of a splinter from the ivory gate of old, and therefore not unworthy of a true prophet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett]