Sentence examples for * metre in from inspiring English sources

Parts of the city sank up to a metre, in turn prompting widespread winter flooding.

It consists of spheres about 100 nanometres (billionths of a metre) in diameter.

It was a blade of almost a metre in length with a silver handle.

This bacterium, T. pallidum, averages 8 to 10 microns (millionths of a metre) in length.

Leeches attain lengths of about 0.4 metre in the contracted state.

It was nudging a spherical boulder as high as its blade, one metre in diameter.

Burns metre, in poetry, a stanza often used by Robert Burns and other Scottish poets.

Adults average 1 metre in length, but some grow to more than 1.5 metres.

An experimenter sat about a metre in front of the barrier.

The virus particle (virion) is about 45 nm (1 nmetre9 metre) in diameter.

Britain's highest mountain has "grown" by one metre in the last 65 years, experts have discovered.