measure out
Example Sentences
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He had to hurry, Lifshitz said, and measure out five new plots before the hostages got home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
Katherine Wolf, a doctoral student at the University of California, Berkeley, said she voted ‘no’ on the measure out of concerns it would result in more people being locked up against their will.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 20, 2024
If using homemade beans, measure out 3 cups with a few tablespoons of their cooking liquid.
From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2023
And then I read the recipe one more time and measure out the ingredients.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022
Sometimes the light quanta seemed to measure out at three or four meters long; sometimes they appeared to be “just a little bundle of energy,” Beams recalled.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
