'metre' in a sentence
Learn how to use 'metre' with 15 example sentences.
- metre noun
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: the basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards)
: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
: rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
There's a bank about a hundred metres from the library.
Motorists must leave at least a metre-wide buffer when passing cyclists.
The tower is fifteen metres high.
The town's highest point is 592 metres above sea level.
The grenade exploded five metres from the soldiers.
The green alien is humanoid and stands at 3.7 metres.
The blue whale grows to over 30 metres long.
He can run a thousand metres in four minutes.
The words above the door of the theatre were a metre high.
Will they break the ten-second mark in the hundred-metre race?
The one-hundred-metre run starts at two in the afternoon.
That is 30 metres long.
A metre is 100 centimetres.
His car was three metres long.
The lake has a diameter of 100 metres.