Sentence examples for metres broad from inspiring English sources
It weighs 30,000 tonnes; is taller, at 110 metres, than the Statue of Liberty; and is 165 metres long and 260 metres broad.
The streamer (now known as a pendant, or pennant) was a long tapering flag, 60 to 18 feet (18 to 5.5 metres) long and about 24 feet (7 metres) broad at the hoist, ending in two points.
Then a frightful explosion followed, and we were all thrown against one another by the concussion, and then, like Vulcan, huge and majestic, a column of water 200 metres high and 50 metres broad, terrible in its beauty and power, shot up to the heavens.
At lower elevations, below 3,000 feet (900 metres), broad-leaved oaks, maples, birches, walnuts, and chestnuts predominate.
When we crossed the stile into a field where a broad margin, perhaps 20 metres wide, had been allowed to lie fallow for birds and insects, we found ourselves walking into a late blooming of wild flowers.
The unglaciated Appalachian Mountains i.e., those located south of the Susquehanna River have long flat-topped summits at elevations of about 2,500 feet (750 metres) and broad terraces at 500 to 600 feet (150 to 180 metres).
He says the Trust's crowd-modelling study hasn't taken into account the broader context, where the South Bank walkway narrows down to just five metres wide, in an area that will see 8,000 people an hour.
From a relatively low watershed and pass to Glen Etive at an elevation of 1,011 feet (308 metres), Glencoe runs west for about 5 miles (8 km) as a steep-sided, glacier-scoured trough about one-half mile (800 metres) wide, bounded by towering mountains with elevations of 3,000 feet (900 metres) or more, before turning northwest as a broader glen opening into the valley of Loch Leven.
Much of the interior is built with high-quality ashlar stonework, with broad, 5 foot 6 inch (1.7 metre) wide staircases.
There are plumes of smoke every few hundred metres across a broad expanse of forest.
