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
And then I read the recipe one more time and measure out the ingredients.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022
Instead of wide-open runs, it invites travelers to measure out the landscape in hours, days or weeks spent on skis.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022
You rearrange your posture; you measure out your breathing.
From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
