Sentence examples for kilometer from inspiring English sources
The word "kilometer" is correct and commonly used in written English
It is used to measure distances or lengths. For example, "She drove 200 kilometers to reach her grandmother's house."
noun
Standard spelling of kilometre
I'll do an extra 500m, that becomes a kilometer, and you think: yeah I deserve this!
Now, given the chance to vote in Egypt's freest parliamentary elections in six decades, they are proving just as keen to express their will at the ballot box.On Monday November 28th queues at some polling stations stretched for half a kilometer.
Kilometre (km), also spelled kilometer, unit of length equal to 1,000 metres and the equivalent of 0.6214 mile (see metric system).
In contrast, Baker, an underwater explosion, created a column of water that was more than 1 kilometer (0.6 mile) high and that subsequently fell upon the entire area as extremely radioactive spray.
The pods transport 800 passengers each between the terminal's car park and its main entrance and consists of 21 vehicles operating on a 3.8 kilometer 'guideway'guideway
After reviewing video footage and split times it was apparent that Njogu had joined the race as it reached the stadium for its last kilometer.
There are the studded winter tires to put on, the engine-block heater to plug in, and the emergency supplies sleeping bag, water, food, matches to pack before a trip up the highway, where drivers can find themselves dozens of miles from the next gas station or house.Homer sits on Kachemak Bay, a 60 kilometer-long inlet of the Pacific.
Saudi Arabia has agreed a massive investment deal to fund the world's next tallest building - and the first to break one-kilometer tall.
Meanwhile, new readings showed ocean contamination had spread about a mile (1.6 kilometers) farther north of the nuclear site than before but is still within the 12-mile (20-kilometer) radius of the evacuation zone.
This means that it is potentially exposed to warm ocean waters, and the study in March uncovered a deep and 5-kilometer wide subsea valley beneath the glacier's oceanfront ice shelf that, the authors said, could be a route for warm offshore water to reach its base.
Government workers there were taking no chances, stacking new sandbags atop a 5-foot-high (1.5-meter-high), 2.5-mile-long (4-kilometer-long) wall.
