Sentence examples for metres is a from inspiring English sources

At the hill's summit, at an elevation of 2,500 feet (750 metres), is a temple of great antiquity.

Sierra says the installation - entitled 245 cubic metres - is a protest against the "banalisation of the Holocaust".

We drive for an hour to get to Sebeta, which, at a mere 2,300 metres, is a favoured location for "low-altitude" asphalt training.

That is, the hundred metres is a contest between people of varying levels of fast-twitch muscles, competitive drive, and physiology.

For a researcher scaling that animal, 16 metres is a long way from 12 metres and would make a bigger difference to a mass estimate.

A whale with intent moves much faster underwater than we ever will; 30 metres is a dimension the whale can inhabit with one swift motion.

Caster Semenya, the current world champion in the eight hundred metres, was a member of the Moletjie Athletics Club until a year ago.

The last 25 metres are a struggle.

We know that Ben Johnson, when he set his world record in the hundred metres, was a doper.

Its fine natural harbour, with anchorages of up to 70 feet (20 metres), was a mustering place for convoys during World War II.

The views from the restaurant at the top of the Hohe Mut (2,670 metres) are a case in point: 21 white-washed peaks over 3,000 metres laid before you as you slurp your hot chocolate.