11. The spacecraft uses a measuring tape as an antenna to communicate with ground stations. 12. A custom-tailoring service uses light rays rather than a measuring tape to size up customers. 13. The surveyor's tape is a long measuring tape . 14. The measuring tape is carefully straightened to the shortest distance between the point and the line. 15. "We're not going to take a measuring tape to measure this or that religious sign ." 16. I have a measuring tape in my drawer. 17. We had no scale, no measuring tape and again, no live well to keep her in. 18. Did you climb them with a measuring tape ? 19. Feminists regularly decry this tyranny of the measuring tape , and are just as regularly dismissed as cranks. 20. "' Lufkin "'is a brand featuring primarily measurement tools such as calipers, gauges, micrometers, and measuring tapes .