Light itself can be used as a sort of tape measure.

"Anyone who wants to bring along their tape measure can do it."

I removed the tape measure and we all looked at him.

I take a 30-foot tape measure and stand outside the house, going around the perimeter.

But it's not like the health department is out there with a tape measure anymore.

Here, take this end of the tape measure, and we'll see what you've got.

You place the tape measure from one end of the tire to the other across the center.

Let it out again when she saw that the metal in his hand was a tape measure.

She hands him one end of the tape measure and walks it back to the other wall.

Six hours before his competition began, he was on the Garden floor with a tape measure.

In those days, nobody bothered to put a tape measure to them.

You all saw that to begin with the tape measure stretched across from one side to the other, exactly.

No man looks romantic when he's wearing a tape measure around his head.

She pulled out a tape measure and started measuring him every which way.

Place the tape measure on the ground beside the pile.

I dug the tape measure out of my bag and began working.

So perhaps it was a tape measure that gave Brand the top pick.

"Was it part of your tape measure we found in the chimney?"

Armed with a tape measure, paper and a pencil, I went outside.

What is the minimum width a tape measure should be?

A tape measure takes up a lot less space than a yardstick.

They took a cloth tape measure and began to take my measurement.

Jayne was waiting for me, tape measure in his hand.

I went back with a tape measure and the floor plan was correct."

There are some places you don't want to go with a tape measure.

I could even see what appeared to be a measuring tape in his hands.

Use a measuring tape, if you have to be accurate.

She slipped into the next room, picked up her measuring tape again.

They had to lay out measuring tapes, and use other equipment, to do what he did by eye.

She got a second rag and used it to clean her father's measuring tape.

This may mean a painful few minutes with a measuring tape, but the results will be worth it.

A lot of people who don't live in Texas will have their measuring tapes out for that.

He anchored a measuring tape to a stake and started to walk.

I measured this by sticking a long measuring tape to a wall outside.

They were holding a camera, measuring tape and a notepad.

The seamstress, measuring tape and notebook in hand, went to work.

"The spatial relationships are off," she said, whipping out her measuring tape.

Hide your children, and pass out the measuring tapes.

Very ominously, he pulls out a roll of measuring tape.

An officer announces that she was strangled with the measuring tape.

Harry disappeared with the end of the measuring tape.

As I squirmed, a little measuring tape came out.

Ms. Taylor came at the very end of visiting hours, carrying a measuring tape.

The others were close-ups of several individual prints with a measuring tape beside them.

Sure, you probably figure all you need is a carpenter's square and a measuring tape.

When the lacing was complete, he wrapped a measuring tape around her waist.

"Let's find you something to wear, honey," she said, picking up her measuring tape.

The measuring tape is carefully straightened to the shortest distance between the point and the line.

Size was determined using a measuring tape placed around the circumference of each tree at a point four and a half feet above the ground.

Brenna stood where she was for a moment, her measuring tape in her hand.

A good quality tape-measure that will not stretch is necessary for general sewing use.

Ill get a tape-measure out of my work-basket this very minute!

Helen rolled up the tape-measure and pushed it into her pocket.

A metal tape-measure of a good length is essential for measuring your window.

Surely you mark height with a pencil against the kitchen wall and get out the tape-measure?

White performed convincingly with a tape-measure, the nearest thing to his hand.

The ball soared high into the chilly Bronx air, but it was far from a tape-measure shot.

Helen took a tape-measure out of her pocket and suspended it above the grave.

The humble tape-measure, for example, is one small example of his effect on clothing.

He has already won galleries with his tape-measure tee shots and ready grins.

If Connolly is healthy Tampa may have hit a tape-measure home run.

The result: all those soaring, tape-measure drives that vanished into the ether.

Must have been tape-measure dingers interfering with U-2 spy missions.

The home run was reminiscent of one of those tape-measure monsters that his father, Greg, used to hit.

It was a narrow strip of metal rather like a steel tape-measure and about twenty centimetres long.

The head was a huge square block with a serpent's face and long, curling, tape-measure tongue.

With the wind blowing out, some true tape-measure home runs have been hit by well-muscled batters.

Sandoval increased the lead further by hitting a tape-measure home run in the seventh inning down the right field line.

Instead of a tape-measure we have a special ruler that allows us to take accurate readings from a discreet distance.

"I've seen more tape-measure home runs this year.

Other types of key holders include models which work in the same way as a tape-measure, automatically retracting keys after use.

(A tape-measure exercise at the subway exit across the street confirmed this.)

This is nothing like the bust-waist-hips, tape-measure routine carried out by 1950's women before they bought paper dress-making patterns.

Whereas, we have already seen, that the tape-measure gives seventy-two feet for the skeleton of a large sized modern whale.

"A tape-measure I had in my pocket," replied she, smiling affably the while (sensation).