Sentence examples for on meter from inspiring English sources

With the play of 10 fingers on the keys, Mr. Ligeti found ways to create intricate ambiguities between foreground and background, usually with one or two layers in between, the layers jostling one another in their disagreements on meter.

"He never goes off on meter maids," Smyth says.

"If you are in an unknown city, do not hire a taxi on meter.

Apparently, the new meters are cheaper because as well as saving on meter readings, fewer customers contact the company to correct estimates.

In his entry on meter, he writes that its pleasure is "physical and intimately connected to bodily experience — to the heartbeat and the pulse, to breathing, walking, running, dancing, working, lovemaking".

But Mitchell's fresh, elegant diction and the care he lavishes on meter — turning the original dactylic hexameter into an irregular five-beat rhythm inspired in part by the late poems of Wallace Stevens — brought me closer to the transfigurative experience Keats describes on reading Chapman's Homer: "Then felt I like some watcher of the skies / When a new planet swims into his ken".

(Those tallies are based on meters, not residents, so, say, an apartment building could be counted as one customer).

Turns out it was just a crackdown on meter-feeders.

Similar boxes can be found on meters in Hollywood, Miami and Bayonne, N.J.

He has asked the city not to place ads on meters in historic districts or beside landmark buildings.

Similarly, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing regularly puts up "no parking" signs on meters outside the Mint, without city permission.