three-foot-tall

On a bright Saturday afternoon, he showed how he pastes paper strips over three-foot-tall clay heads he fashioned before the volunteers arrived.

Halloween, Haitian Style Arden Dale 2010

A short distance away, on the sidewalk, with her back to the steel fence lodged in the three-foot-tall stone wall surrounding Tehran University, stands a girl who, unlike most girls in the world but like most girls in Iran, is wearing a black headscarf and a long black coat as a coverall.

Excerpt: Censoring an Iranian Love Story by Shahriar Mandanipour 2009

Hailing a cab on the streets of New York with a three-foot-tall aluminum tank in your possession is no easy task.

Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

So he enlisted Mr. Sieveking, who admires Mr. Cline so much he has one of the artist's statues, a green three-foot-tall gremlin called "Mr. Slime," in his college office.

Roadside Kitsch Is Fun, but Is It Art? Virginia Museum Sure Hopes So Rob Johnson 2011

Hailing a cab on the streets of New York with a three-foot-tall aluminum tank in your possession is no easy task.

Times Two Kristen Henderson 2011

Corbis A researcher holds a model skull of Homo floresiensis, the three-foot-tall 'Hobbit' species discovered in 2004.

Bones That Tell a Tale Brian Switek 2011

Mrs. Macklowe served a garden-inspired cake and Mr. Macklowe was given a three-foot-tall birthday card inscribed with the names of those who donated to the garden.

A Garden Grows in a Schoolyard Melanie Grayce West 2011

Lie in the grass alongside Alyson Shotz's "Mirror Fence" (2003), a three-foot-tall, 130-foot-long stretch of picket fence covered in mirrored acrylic, and you'll see reflected across its face the rolling hills, fields and sky of Storm King Art Center's 500-acre sculpture park in the Hudson Valley.

A Five-Decade Marriage of Nature and Art 2010

He showed me the barrel-like, three-foot-tall, stainless steel honey extractor in one corner of the garage that he'd bought used for five hundred dollars, explaining that even with this state-of-the-art piece of equipment it was a time-consuming project every fall, extracting and bottling his bees 'work, which he gave away as gifts to his friends and neighbors.

Behind the (Beekeeper's) Veil 2010

She has been mastering the art of making huge, three-foot-tall penises.

Miss Manners: Librarian checks out more than is seemly 2010