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How to use the word metre in a Sentence?

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There was no one-metre distancing. That’s what I wanted to show, even at the factory, after the first few months (of infections in Malaysia), the social distancing markers were thrown out. – Yubaraj Khadka	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them. – Martin Garside	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Not having a power metre meant I didn't look down at the numbers and think, 'Hey back it off'. It was just full gas from the beginning and I managed to pull it off. – The American	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
That's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, as the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, we expect multi-metre sea level rise from Antarctica in the coming centuries. – Eric Rignot	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The Wars of the Roses are whatGames of Thronesis based on, and this is the Wars of the Roses laid out across a 5-metre, visually spectacular document, it features contributions from both the key players in the Wars of the Roses — it was originally drawn up by the Lancastrian side in the conflict but it fell into Yorkist hands and they rewrote part of it. – Dr Jones	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
It was just an organic thing, i never really give her a time to chase, it's more of a process but sometimes( swimmers) do get it in their head to chase a time and they generally over-cook the first 50 in a 100-metre race. – Simon Cusack	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
The robot itself is a metre 20 high, so it is not like Arnold Schwarzenegger with a leather jacket and an 'I will be back' robot, it is a quite nice robot and the reactions are positive for the moment. – Zora Bots	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
Fiery Cross is sensitive because it is presumed to be the future hub of Chinese military operations in the South China Sea, given its already extensive infrastructure, including its large and deep port and 3000-metre runway, the timing is interesting, too. It is a show of U.S. determination ahead of President Obama's trip to Vietnam later this month. – Ian Storey	Found on Reuters 7 years ago
We will possibly raise a public storm alert in the capital Manila and suspend sea travel and fishing due to storm surge and up to 4-metre high waves at the open sea. – Alexander Pama	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I thought I had a margin of six tenth of a second and in the end it's a margin of eight thousandth of a second, i was stuck in the final (250-metre) lap but thanks to the support of the crowd I did not feel the pain. – Francois Pervis	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
It looks extremely simple and equally promising, because graphene can be produced these days in square metre sheets, we hope that it will find its way to commercial fuel cells sooner rather than later. – Dr Sheng Hu	Found on CNN 9 years ago

There was no one-metre distancing. That’s what I wanted to show, even at the factory, after the first few months (of infections in Malaysia), the social distancing markers were thrown out.

– Yubaraj Khadka

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It is incredibly sad - I was literally two feet from this dead whale, it was both poignant and a bit eerie really - road traffic was thundering overhead on the busiest motorway in Britain and oblivious to all the people in the cars and lorries there was a 10-metre long beautiful whale floating dead beneath them.

– Martin Garside

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Not having a power metre meant I didn't look down at the numbers and think, 'Hey back it off'. It was just full gas from the beginning and I managed to pull it off.

– The American

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

That's just the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, as the Antarctic ice sheet continues to melt away, we expect multi-metre sea level rise from Antarctica in the coming centuries.

– Eric Rignot

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The Wars of the Roses are whatGames of Thronesis based on, and this is the Wars of the Roses laid out across a 5-metre, visually spectacular document, it features contributions from both the key players in the Wars of the Roses — it was originally drawn up by the Lancastrian side in the conflict but it fell into Yorkist hands and they rewrote part of it.

– Dr Jones

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

It was just an organic thing, i never really give her a time to chase, it's more of a process but sometimes( swimmers) do get it in their head to chase a time and they generally over-cook the first 50 in a 100-metre race.

– Simon Cusack

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

The robot itself is a metre 20 high, so it is not like Arnold Schwarzenegger with a leather jacket and an 'I will be back' robot, it is a quite nice robot and the reactions are positive for the moment.

– Zora Bots

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

Fiery Cross is sensitive because it is presumed to be the future hub of Chinese military operations in the South China Sea, given its already extensive infrastructure, including its large and deep port and 3000-metre runway, the timing is interesting, too. It is a show of U.S. determination ahead of President Obama's trip to Vietnam later this month.

– Ian Storey

Found on Reuters
7 years ago

We will possibly raise a public storm alert in the capital Manila and suspend sea travel and fishing due to storm surge and up to 4-metre high waves at the open sea.

– Alexander Pama

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I thought I had a margin of six tenth of a second and in the end it's a margin of eight thousandth of a second, i was stuck in the final (250-metre) lap but thanks to the support of the crowd I did not feel the pain.

– Francois Pervis

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

It looks extremely simple and equally promising, because graphene can be produced these days in square metre sheets, we hope that it will find its way to commercial fuel cells sooner rather than later.

– Dr Sheng Hu

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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