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Example sentences for "kilometer"

Lexicographically close words:
kilo; kilogram; kilogramme; kilogrammes; kilograms; kilometers; kilometre; kilometres; kilos; kiloton
  1. Sometimes the posts were a kilometer or even two kilometers apart.

  2. About a kilometer farther on, we came around a turn in the road and nearly ran into the first Belgian outpost--six men and an officer.

  3. When we were bowling along about one kilometer from the town, three shells burst at once, about two hundred yards to our left, and we stopped to see what was toward.

  4. About a kilometer out of Malines we ran into a considerable detachment of Belgian infantry and lancers and a large armoured motor with two mitrailleuses.

  5. It was nervous work that far, but once inside we found everybody friendly and got through without any trouble, although we were stopped every kilometer or so.

  6. To a difference of a kilometer in the cause would correspond a difference of a millimeter in the effect.

  7. If I win in case the effect corresponds to a kilometer bearing an even number, my probability of winning will be 1/2.

  8. Suppose a difference of a millimeter in the cause produces a difference of a kilometer in the effect.

  9. It had become increasingly heavy against his shoulders with every kilometer of that long walk.

  10. The kilometer ticket is sold in all classes and for almost any distance, and is valid on all but a few branch lines.

  11. I think we've already made a kilometer or maybe a klick and a half," Hans yelled.

  12. He was in the lead Huey, now hovering slightly more than a kilometer away from the shoreline of Andikythera.

  13. About one kilometer offshore, they were scheduled to disembark into two motorized Zodiac rubber raiding craft that they had lashed to the bow.

  14. Pest and I now increased our speed in the direction of battalion headquarters, which were in plain view and not more than a kilometer away as the bird flies.

  15. We caught glimpses now and then of another ruined village, the battalion headquarters (a kilometer from the head of the communicating trench), where we reported before going on to the most advanced positions.

  16. The dugout itself was a kilometer back from the advanced trenches, and on comparatively high ground.

  17. When I went up to "mess" that day, an orderly pointed out to me through a crack in the camouflage a ruined plane a kilometer away in the open and under constant observation from both lines.

  18. The rapid spread of the metric system of weights and measures will probably make the kilometer the unit of all railway distances on the Continent in the next decade.

  19. The kilometer is five-eighths of an English mile, and the verst very nearly the same; the German long mile equals five and three-fourths English miles, and the German short mile is about three and a half English.

  20. This was the crossing of the kilometer of mud stretching between the river and the canal beyond, which, though it was under enemy fire, was not held by infantry.

  21. A soldier who has had two months of open work or outdoor warfare, in which artillery had played the leading role, has to be very tired to ignore an order to dig in a scant kilometer back of the first line, the worst spot on the field.

  22. It was of average size, perhaps a quarter-kilometer on a side--plenty of room for the five hundred or so who represented Ch'kara on Homeworld.

  23. Less than half a kilometer later, a dozen more Ch'kara cars had come to escort him, holding at shoulder height like the first and moving at his walking speed.

  24. The guide of the little party was the first to speak: "If we follow this course half a kilometer farther we shall come out upon the road leading to Caro, which winds down from the mountains.

  25. About a kilometer this side we can strike a mountain road leading into the wild country.

  26. On one square kilometer (about three-fifths of a square mile) of the battle field of Campulung 6,000 Rumanian dead were counted.

  27. There is a road about every kilometer and they run roughly northwest and northeast.

  28. A kilometer southwest, the trench line is crossed by the road to Aubers called the Rue D'Enfer, or in our language, the Road to Hell.

  29. Muagwanta siya sa lákaw kay hayunan ra ang bayinti kilumitrus, A twenty-kilometer walk won’t bother him because he will take it easy.

  30. Ang dálan mitúlin ug usa ka kilumitru ubay sa subà, The path ran for a kilometer along the river.

  31. During the rainy season one caminero, or roadman, is stationed on each kilometer section.

  32. During the dry season one caminero cares for a two-kilometer section.

  33. Anything designed to resist the heat, blast and radiation effects of a megaton thermonuclear bomb at a kilometer ought to stand up under what was coming.

  34. The velocity of the Moon in its orbit is more than 1 kilometer (0.

  35. We may perhaps conceive of this distance by calculating that a train, moving at constant speed of 1 kilometer (0.

  36. Now it was a canyon, half a kilometer wide.

  37. There was flat ground to the east, clear in a fairly broad alley for at least half a kilometer before any of the domes protruded up into it.

  38. In 1861 the remains of their bodies began to appear at the lower end of the Glacier des Bossons, more than a kilometer from the place.


  39. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kilometer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    kilometers east; kilometers north