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Kilometre
"Kilometre" in a Sentence (14 examples)
A three-person team is undertaking a 40,000-kilometre motorcycle journey from the Arctic Circle in Alaska to the southern tip of South America.
In one single square kilometre of Borneo woodland have been found as many species of trees as exist in all of North America.
I run at least a kilometre every morning.
I'm used to going for two kilometre daily walks.
The Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder was able to chart about 3 million galaxies in just 300 hours – 1 million of which have never been seen before.
There's a bridge about a kilometre upstream.
There's a petrol station a kilometre down the road.
If you draw a line directly, Tom's house within 100 meters just across the river. But when you actually try and go, it's about a 1 kilometre distance to the bridge, so it takes 20 minutes by foot to get there.
There's a petrol station a kilometre further up.
What's a kilometre, Mum?
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Holonyms: megametre < gigametre < terametre < petametre
Meronyms: picometre < nanometre < micrometre < millimetre < centimetre < decimetre < metre
When you fly over an undammed river like the Fraser I grew up with, the plume of silt spewed into the ocean is astonishing, a good three kilometres of brown refusing to mix with the green of the ocean.
The 34.2 kilometre (21.3 mile) pipeline, which will be built by Qinjin Natural Gas Co, is designed to have annual gas transmission capacity of 3.3 billion cubic metres and connect Ji county in Shanxi and Yichuan county in Shaanxi.
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