It was a cramped, pitch-black space with a five-foot-high ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams From My Father]

The sudden appearance of a five-foot-high nose can be disconcerting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Impossible Places]

They were walking parallel to a five-foot-high ridge of smooth stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Time of the Transference]

Right by the front door, her shoes are artfully arranged on a five-foot-high shelf.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nancy Ruhling: Astoria Characters: The Girl Fumi Fell For] Reference

Down around the five-foot-high platform he stood on, wide-legged, were four burly catmen in pinstripe cazsuits.    From Wordnik.com.  [Galaxy Jane]

A long sigh of steam hissed from the logs burning in the five-foot-high fireplace as I entered the living room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: In Fidelity by M.J. Rose] Reference

Six feet tall and standing on a five-foot-high marble mounting, she towered above the tourists milling around her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven Deadly Wonders] Reference

A five-foot-high decorative wrought-iron fence was the only thing separating it from the heavily trafficked street.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Kennedy Detail] Reference

We then marched with a commemorative coffin towards the Pentagon, until we encountered a five-foot-high steel barrier.    From Wordnik.com.  [make noise] Reference

So the vehicle had to be scaled down, had to be made narrow enough to fit in the five-foot-wide, five-foot-high cargo hold of the V-22.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 29, 2005] Reference

The new shops sounds lovely, with Roy McMakin tables and countertops, and — good heavens, paging Cakespy! — a five-foot-high stained-glass cupcake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upcoming Seattle food events] Reference

I liked viewing the five-foot-high stained glass cupcake in the entryway, the candy-colored chairs and the chocolate-bar brown tables designed by Roy McMakin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holly Smith: The Next Iron Chef] Reference

There were also reports that after a loss Uday forced the volleyball team, which was made up of taller athletes, to remain in a room he had constructed with a five-foot-high ceiling.    From Wordnik.com.  [BREAKING NEWS: Plane Lands Safely!] Reference

We climbed a five-foot-high earthen barrier (the army has constructed hundreds of these to restrict Palestinian access to main highways like the 60 Road) and hiked a quarter mile or so down a back street to meet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Checkpoint] Reference

The presidential security guard did not fire a single shot until well after one of the soldiers actually reached the five-foot-high granite wall that separated the front row -- where Sadat, Mubarak, and Abu Ghazala were seated a foot away -- from the dusty parade ground.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary S. Chafetz: Mubarak's Turn] Reference

The wall opposite was a five-foot-high partition separating the indoor pens from the rest of the shed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Died in the Wool]

Outside their office are eight, five-foot-high locked filing cabinets containing files of foreign workers on whose behalf they have worked.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits] Reference

To protect his hens, Mr. Barlow built a five-foot-high fence along the perimeter of his poultry field, though he still loses an occasional bird.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page]

Above the crowd of shoppers, in five-foot-high letters, was the promise emblazoned on nearly every Wal-Mart in the world: Satisfaction Guaranteed.    From Wordnik.com.  [AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed] Reference

Outside my window the chainsaws were still all abuzz and a five-foot-high, ten-foot-long pile of broken branches and debris was amassing in my front yard.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The five-foot-high (1. 5-meter) news ticker ran across 25 windows on the outside of the fifth floor of the U.S. diplomatic mission's building on Havana's busy seaside Malecon drive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pat Dollard | Young Americans] Reference

For example, the five-foot-high "Principal's Office" is formed from flat bars made to look like a school chair with shoes, while the eight-inch-high "Iron Lady's Crocs" is made from an old flat iron welded on a piece from a farm tractor.    From Wordnik.com.  [PinoyCentric.com] Reference

The funnel’s surface was made up of thousands—perhaps millions—of viciously sharp five-foot-high spikes carved from some kind of slate-colored stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [THE 5 GREATEST WARRIORS] Reference

The meaning of memory A might be “listening to Schwartz refute Piffel’s argument,” of memory B “watching my son demolish a five-foot-high tower of blocks.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Muse in the Machine] Reference

Cuban security guards were also stationed in strategic spots to shoo away any Cubans who might gaze upward at the five-foot-high news ticker, which overlooked the Malecón, Havana’s coastal highway.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birthers Lay an Egg] Reference

DURING THE 1960 S, the five-foot-high hand-painted placard in front of the Bird Cage Theatre at Knott’s Berry Farm read WORLD’S GREATEST ENTERTAIMENT.    From Wordnik.com.  [Born Standing Up] Reference

— a five-foot-high stained-glass cupcake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Upcoming Seattle food events] Reference