Sentence examples for meter as a from inspiring English sources

But at other times the effect is electric, as these poems allow us to experience poetic meter as a live alternative to the empty measure of price.

They even tried to use a parking meter as a battering ram to get inside because we'd locked ourselves inside the bar".

Back in 1901 Arthur Pitney patented a hand-cranked postage meter as a better way to send mail than licking and sticking stamps, while Walter Bowes had a factory that made canceling machines.

It brings a rhythm that is not so much a meter as a pulse, a sermon that seems not just words on a page but a living, breathing creation.

Some of them said that they charged a minimum per trip — for instance, $7 — regardless of how short it was, and that using a meter as a green taxi could result in lower fares.

Ms. Lohan, who made her movie debut in Disney's 1998 remake of "The Parent Trap" and co-starred with Jamie Lee Curtis in last year's sleeper "Freaky Friday," looks to have about 15 minutes left on the meter as a child star.

The building is currently used for manufacturing and assembling postage meters, as well as a housing a mixture of other jobs, including a call center that is moving to Bridgeport.

There also are three large terraces, totaling 325 square meters, as well as an indoor swimming pool, a steam room and a Jacuzzi.

This will usually have distances in both feet and meters, as well as an ∞ marking (for focusing an infinite distance away).

Eric B broke apart the right angles of rap by rhyming with the fluidity of bop musicians who viewed meter as an idea, not a law.

To New Yorkers who take a broken meter as an invitation to park indefinitely, a ticket comes as an unpleasant reality check: the legal limit is, in fact, an hour.