inch

The candle, which was a new one, is not burned more than half an inch.

There’s the scarlet thread of murder running through the colourless skein of life, and our duty is to unravel it, and isolate it, and expose every inch of it.

The recurring words, “water pressure” and “pressure to the square inch” suggested some possible relation to a submarine.

I’m an inch taller than Diana, but she is ever so much fatter; she says she’d like to be thin because it’s so much more graceful, but I’m afraid she only said it to soothe my feelings.