Sentence examples for a mere meter from inspiring English sources

I passed unmanned railway crossings, where cyclists attempted to wheel their bikes across the tracks, even as trains were within view, toddlers lingered a mere meter, or about four feet, from the train thundering past, and vegetable sellers sat at the edges of tracks.

At a mere one meter in width, you'll be hugging the canyon walls as you make your way along it -- remember to pack extra resin for your hands, 'cause you'll want to be glued to that mountainous surface.

Hooking the trigger one meter up the chain tossed the croquet ball a mere 6 meters.

Once swimmers surface, or "break out," it's a mere 35 meters to the wall.

In fact, the straightest, flattest stretch on the undulating course is a mere 400 meters.

He may be a mere 1.70 meters, just 5-foot-7, but that didn't stop him rising to head the first goal of the night.

And for someone who stands a mere 1.64 meters, or barely 5 feet 5 inches, her leap to score in the air against opponents who tower above her, was, to use the word of some beaten Americans, awesome.

Relatively modest, at a mere 119 meters, but arguably even more desirable that its larger sisters by virtue of lines reminiscent of a nuclear submarine, the A is another Blohm + Voss creation, designed by Philippe Starck and built for another Russian billionaire, Andrey Melnichenko.

Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, then only 9 years into his 30-year reign, stood before the United Nations and warned the world that rising sea levels would eventually erase his country from the map: "With a mere one-meter rise," he said, "a storm surge would be catastrophic and possibly fatal to the nation".

So, if it's raining and you need somewhere to shelter, here's my guide to the hippest hangouts near the stadium (for T Magazine's take, go here): A mere 100 meters from the Olympic Stadium and home to an enormous Coca-Cola Olympic mural (that was defaced within a few hours of being painted) is Hackney Wick, an arty district which is home to many of East London's creative types.

Freeze runs a lab at Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, a mere 180 meters from Scripps.