Sentence examples for that metre from inspiring English sources

Notwithstanding the opposite tendencies of metrical organization and stress accent, however, some metre is obviously subject to stress, so that metre and time measure become very closely linked, as in the scherzo of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, where a measure has a strong first beat and at the same time follows a metre.

With haiku and limericks both ineligible under the 14-line rule, my hunch is that rhyming verse has to be a pretty safe bet - although a colleague points out that metre and assonance both have a part to play in memory-jogging.

At present there is no way to monitor groundwater consumption in California, in the way that metres can track urban use.

The craft is a stubby cylinder, 1.7 metres tall, with wings that measure 3 metres from end to end.

It is also impossible to confirm that the metre is originally Indo-European, though some scholars have noted a distant similarity to metres in Russian and Greek.

Kelly said that 1.67-metre-tall (5ft 6in) Maxse stood little chance against Nolan, at 1.85 metres (6ft 1in) and athletically built.

I turn, and that 30 metres back has never looked such a long way.

Immediately the radio operator reported that, 200 metres away, two soldiers had stepped on an IED (improvised explosive device).

The presence of such a large number of individuals displaying the same gigantic proportions demonstrates that 13-metre lengths were probably the norm for adults of this species.

One theory is that the metre-high small-brained hominin, nicknamed "the hobbit", evolved from the larger-bodied Homo erectus.

"I've been chasing that 72-metre barrier for a while now so I'm really pleased to have finally got it," she said.