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How to use the word kilometer in a Sentence?

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There is only one solution : a 100-kilometer demilitarized zone.

Maksym Stetsyna

Found on New York Times
10 months ago

The evacuation of residents is underway, people are taken out of the five-kilometer zone from the incident to ensure safety.

Sergei Aksyonov

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My experience suggests this would be a darned hard leak to remotely determine quickly, an opening of this type, on a 17-mile-long (27-kilometer) underwater pipe is very hard to spot by remote indications. These crack-type releases are lower rate and can go for quite a while.

Richard Kuprewicz

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Over the next several months, Perseverance will be exploring a 1.5-square-mile( 4-square-kilometer) patch of crater floor. It is from this location that the first samples from another planet will be collected for return to Earth by a future mission.

Jennifer Trosper

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Despite being buried beneath nearly a kilometer of sedimentary rocks, it is remarkable that geophysical data reveals so much about the crater structure — enough to describe the direction and angle of the impact.

Auriol Rae

Found on CNN
3 years ago

From the first kilometer, I was really comfortable, i have been training for this for four and a half months, I have been putting my heart and mind to run under two hours for a marathon and make history.

Eliud Kipchoge

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

We have to do a very intensive survey within a 3 kilometer radius of where the first case was recorded.

Veenu Gupta

Found on CNN
5 years ago

Temperatures in the pyroclastic flow can exceed 700 degrees (Celsius) and volcanic ash can rain down on a 15 kilometer (9.32 miles) radius. That could cause more mud flows and nearby rivers to burst their banks.

Eddy Sanchez

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

You can't have medical people on every kilometer of the race, so they are professionally positioned the same as for our Gold Coast marathon, where we have 30,000 people. Obviously, the health of the athlete is absolutely prime.

Mark Peters

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

To verify that our urban sites were indeed urban, and our rural sites were rural, we used satellite images to measure the proportion of buildings, roads, and vegetation in the kilometer surrounding each site.

Scott Davies

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

A number of signs, including a higher concentration of air strikes, the movement of Russian artillery support for regime forces, and a variety of skirmishes near a 3-to-4 kilometer gap that still keeps Aleppo City from being besieged, all show that they are getting ready to move.

Chris Kozak

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It's a 1,400-kilometer boundary which we manage all the time with 700 rangers -- rangers that now must mainly focus on anti-poaching operations.

Glenn Phillips

Found on CNN
8 years ago

They are dug between houses so that they can cross the street without the planes seeing them. They go down and split off into separate tunnels. This tunnel we're looking at here goes on for a kilometer, some others are 700, 800 meters.

Sami Kathim

Found on CNN
8 years ago

People are curious to see the history made in front of them, we will be one kilometer away from the front at the very closest. But not any closer. It's safe. On no occasion will we be giving weapons to tourists.

Anatoly Aronov

Found on CNN
8 years ago

At this point in time we can build a tower that is one kilometer, maybe two kilometers. Any higher than that and we will have to do a lot of homework.

Sang Dae Kim

Found on CNN
8 years ago

There is fierce fighting ongoing at Spin Ghar park, which is some half a kilometer (550 yards) away from the governor’s compound.

Abdullah Danishy

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

With the water a kilometer and a half away, women have time to do other daily chores. Hygiene at home is a priority now. Animals produce more milk, their weight is better (which helps) fetching good money on the market. And food is not a problem anymore.

Nangisan Lesiyampe

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

There's a lot of opportunities for the structure, tourism is one. You'd have a great sight of the earth at 20 kilometers up, you'd see about 1,000 kilometers in any direction. Communications. So right now geostationary satellites, once they're up there you can't really service them. If we had facilities on the tower it would have that same 1,000 kilometer range and you'd be able to service them.

Ian Tomaszewski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We think it's realistic, we're looking to license the patent to Google or Alphabet, SpaceX, Elon Musk, maybe the European Space Agency, and we think that in three to five years a 1.5 kilometer prototype model - full-scale model - could be accomplished.

Ian Tomaszewski

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Each square kilometer they seize from ISIS is another square kilometer they have to secure and administer, and they are not receiving any additional resources from the U.S. or Baghdad to do this.

Army Brigadier General Ernie Audino

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

They went hunting at night with a spotlight, and they spotted Cecil, they tied a dead animal to their vehicle to lure Cecil out of the park, and they scented an area about half a kilometer from the park.

Johnny Rodrigues

Found on CNN
8 years ago

My house was one kilometer from here, my earliest memory was when I was with my dad, holding his hand, shopping. This is what has brought me to the culture of food, where I am today.

Gaggan Anand

Found on CNN
8 years ago

We've only removed 5,500 cubic meters of ice from a 900-square-kilometer glacier, it's a bit like taking a drop of water from a bathtub.

Sigurdur Skarphedinsson

Found on CNN
8 years ago

It never (before) happened to women at this level; this was really one of the shocking acts of violence publicly within the capital, it is not far from the palace, less than one kilometer.

Sima Samar

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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