METRE in a Sentence

Learn METRE from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

23 example sentences for METRE, such as:

1. The metre is a unit of length.
2. The metre is a measure of length.
3. The SI unit of length is the metre.
4. The two buildings are eight metres apart.
5. He cut off a metre of cloth from the roll.

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 Meanings and Examples of METRE
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metre
 n.  (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse
 n.  rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration
Classic Sentence:
1  At two hundred francs the metre, the sixty leagues of Paris' sewers of the present day represent forty-eight millions.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER VI—FUTURE PROGRESS
2  At the present time, for example, the mixed vessel with a screw is a surprising machine, propelled by three thousand square metres of canvas and by an engine of two thousand five hundred horse-power.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER III—THE ANKLE-CHAIN MUST HAVE UNDERGONE A CERTAIN...
3  The light of the air-hole died out ten or twelve paces from the point where Jean Valjean stood, and barely cast a wan pallor on a few metres of the damp walls of the sewer.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER I—THE SEWER AND ITS SURPRISES
Example Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1  A metre is a unit of length and a kilogram is a unit of weight.
2  The metre is a unit of length.
3  The SI unit of length is the metre.
4  The metre is the standard unit for measuring length in the SI system.
5  It's two and a half metres high and one metre wide.
6  The standard of length in France is the metre.
7  The basic material for weaving is yarn, which is sold by the pound and costs between US$4 and US$16 per metre of woven goods.
8  He cut off a metre of cloth from the roll.
9  It costs 10 per metre, no, scrub that (ie ignore what I've just said), it costs 12 per metre.
10  The metre is a measure of length.
11  Each platelet is only a few millionths of a metre across, it consists of a sheet of stiff cellulose fibres; although the fibres are minute, they are strong.
12  Continue along the farm track for another hundred metres.
13  Cats can clear two metres with a standing jump.
14  This new model of drilling machine can bore through solid rock ten metres deep.
15  The two buildings are eight metres apart.