tape measure

Scientists on the expedition measured the coral using a type of tape measure under water.

What I learned from my nightmarish Los Angeles apartment hunt: bring a tape measure, have the attorney general on speed-dial and “room with a view” is subjective.

Make sure they work for you — perhaps spend some time with a tape measure figuring out your ideal desktop height before you order a desk.

There was a long white tape measure draped around her neck.

Pillcopata, Peru—Twenty years ago, a dozen Peruvian biology undergraduates armed with machetes and tape measures laboriously cleared a trail down the steep eastern flank of the Andes Mountains near this sleepy Amazonian town.