Sentence examples for 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.

Tourists and Sarasota Bay residents lay on the beach, and fishing boats languidly floated by mere meters from our boat.

You can use the topography to crawl unseen mere meters from an enemy, hide in foliage, shoot out lights, and dive behind cover.

Mere meters from the Greek island of Chios the boat crashed on the rocks and sunk, the water taking his wife and two children.

Remarkably, the Noordbrabants Museum, a small museum devoted to the arts and crafts of the region, has been able to assemble 20 of Bosch's 25 paintings, along with 19 of 25 drawings believed to exist, all together for the first time, and all within mere meters of where they were originally painted.

Board the boat that takes you to the whale sharks' territory, usually mere meters from shore.

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.

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.