Sentence examples for meter there is from inspiring English sources

"I tell you, college is the biggest parking meter there is -- you keep putting your money in, and nothing comes out".

For the several minutes that I stand at the pump, all I do is stare at the growing total on the meter — there is nothing else to do.

So the next time you drop a quarter into an expired parking meter, there is a good chance the recipient of that small act of kindness will be inspired to do a kind act for someone else, and on and on.

But now that Old River is valved and metered there are two million nine hundred thousand potential complainers, very few of whom are reluctant to present a grievance to the Corps.

As much as a pain as it is to root under your car seat looking for loose change to feed the meter, there aren't too many ways to avoid actually putting money into a traditional meter.

Readers accustomed to identifying poetry with Dante, Goethe, Mickiewicz and Rumi may think of it as written in lines based on rhyme and regular meter; there are, however, traditions, such as Biblical poetry, that use other means to create rhythm and euphony.

Find the main valve.On the gas meter, there are two pipes.

If you don't have a decibel meter, there are smartphone apps that can accomplish the same task.

From our previous experience at Pavilion Lake, at a depth of 10 meters there isn't much other than chara — a type of algae that looks like grass.

Extravagant choral outbursts, feverish street-band percussion and balladlike barroom solos take on sophisticated off-center rhythms and shifting meters; there is little loss of spontaneity.

But while local authorities struggle to cope with the number of noise-related disputes they're requested to attend with decibel meters, there is little acknowledgement of the disruptive effects of noises that may not reach the required threshold for action to be taken – in other words, it's not all about volume.