metre

Example Sentences

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There are high fences on both sides that are often electrified, with guard posts every few hundred metres.

From BBC

Estimated at being 12 to 15 metres long and 15 tons in weight, it's thought the whale could have previously become entangled in a fishing net.

From BBC

Ukraine's total gas consumption in 2025 was 21 billion cubic metres, the Dixi group consultancy said in a report in March, meaning Hungary accounted for 14 percent of Ukraine's total gas use in 2025.

From Barron's

"We were literally like 100 metres away," says 23-year-old Leo Medina, who was onboard another plane on the tarmac when the crash happened.

From BBC

AFP journalists at the scene saw the damage just a few hundred metres from Jerusalem's revered holy sites of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Western Wall and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

From Barron's