Sentence examples for at the meter from inspiring English sources

The irony in the City Council's largess in eliminating Sunday metered parking ("Soon, No More Tithing at the Meter," news article, Oct. 17) is that these "blessings from the parking gods" may turn out to be more like curses.

The apprentice stared at the meter.

"You park at the meter and sit and watch," Mr. Hughes said.

One carried a yellow pad and, after peering closely at the meter, jotted something down on it.

Getting out, he found that the attendant was squirting the gasoline on the ground and glancing up at the meter from time to time.

Then, halfway home, after an exhausting and trying day, she looked at the meter: "It seemed much higher than it ought to have been.

For its part, the operator has apologized and announced it would delay price increases at the meters.

However, we argue that flow heterogeneity generates a small but relevant beta diversity component (at the meter-scale), when biofilms differentiate into functionally non-redundant local communities whose diversified metabolic capabilities may induce regional complementarity [54] along the bedforms.

At 500, the meter is set to sound an alarm.

The answer rhymed at times, though the meter trailed off.

Its outsider status is vouchsafed by its slow triple meter, always at odds with the meter of foreground events.