How to Use cubit in a Sentence

cubit

noun

• And which of you, by being anxious, can add one cubit unto the measure of his life?
  — Bob Odenkirk, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2019
• The long house, with its cubit coils and crystal shields, was not what protected us from the pandemic.
  — Ruth Ozeki, New York Times, 10 Nov. 2020
• The palace that Maya built consisted of columns of gold, and occupied an area of five thousand cubits.
  — Girish Shahane, Quartz India, 30 Aug. 2019
• The English from at least medieval times have hewed to their own measurements—cubits, stones, miles, acres—some of which are still used in America.
  — Jenny Gross, WSJ, 23 Oct. 2017
• Newton was interested in the cubit, a unit of measurement used by the Great Pyramid’s builders.
  — Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Dec. 2020
• That’s three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high, or five hundred and ten feet by eighty-five by fifty-one.
  — Oliver Whang, The New Yorker, 27 Nov. 2023
• There was the fingertip-to-elbow cubit and the thumb-width inch.
  — Katie Hafner, Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2022