How to Use kilometer in a Sentence

kilometer

noun

• The next day, a 2-year-old girl who lived 15 kilometers away, died of the virus.
  — Stephanie Nolen Thomas Cristofoletti, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• Look at the tenth and final kilometer, on the far right.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2021
• The area is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north from Jerusalem.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 21 June 2023
• The best way for the penguins to get cool is to jump in the ocean, but some of them have to walk more than a kilometer to get there.
  — Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
• And then, the final kilometer, the steepest of the ride at 11 percent.
  — Steve Wartenberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
• The two men were born a couple of years and 700 kilometers apart in the Soviet Union.
  — Katherine Howell, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
• The race was in the final kilometer of the eighth stage when the camera captured the plants, which were set up on two plots.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• Located in Rome, Italy, the home of the Pope spans less than half a square kilometer.
  — Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
• Friends searched the area and found one of Monica’s pink shoes a few kilometers from her house.
  — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
• The storied falls stretch for a kilometer across the border with a drop of some 110 meters.
  — Farai Shawn Matiashe, Quartz Africa, 11 Dec. 2019
• Matson says the company plans to ship the bikes with three to four trails in the system, each about 20 kilometers long.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 May 2024
• The Hong Kong Marathon is an umbrella event for three races --10 kilometers, half and full marathon.
  — Calum Trenaman, CNN, 30 Jan. 2020
• During the lunar day, the rover could have traveled as far as half a kilometer from the lander.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
• The spacecraft returned some of the best data and images of Deimos yet from as low as 100 kilometers above the moon’s surface.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 2 May 2023
• Over the next two days, the troops shot and hunted fleeing women and children in a 35-square-mile (90-square-kilometer) area.
  — Patty Nieberg, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• Over billions of years this has formed a layer of methane ice many kilometers thick in places.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• However, this means that the buoys have to be within 50 kilometers of the shore, in the case of a reference station.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2024
• Furrer is believed to have crashed near the city of Küsnacht, which is along the race’s 73.6 kilometer route, according to The Guardian.
  — Sean Neumann, People.com, 27 Sep. 2024
• The terrain park and 20 kilometers of Nordic trails also will be available.
  — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
• Reefs often have tens of thousands of colonies per square kilometer.
  — Elizabeth Svoboda, Scientific American, 1 May 2021
• Under the ceasefire deal, Hezbollah is required to move its forces north of the Litani, which in some places is about 30 kilometers (20 miles) north of the border.
  — Josef Federman, TIME, 27 Nov. 2024
• Most of us will never question why a gram is a gram or a kilometer is a kilometer.
  — Rachael Pells, Wired, 3 Jan. 2022
• This dives a kilometer down to examine the chemistry and shape of the seabed, using sonar to create a map of the surrounding area.
  — Milly Chan, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
• Sophomore Ben Lewis passed 20 runners in the last kilometer.
  — Lori Riley, Hartford Courant, 12 Nov. 2022
• As so often in this year’s race, the two were in a class of their own and were left dueling in the brutal final kilometer up to Peyragudes airstrip.
  — San Francisco Chronicle, 20 July 2022
• As many as 1,000 tree species can be found in one square kilometer, roughly the same number of species as can be found in the entire United States.
  — Smithsonian, 17 Dec. 2019
• Located some 13 kilometers (about 8 miles) from the center of Beirut, the US’ new embassy compound in Lebanon looks like a city of its own.
  — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 12 May 2023
• Many of the sensors that showed simultaneous spikes in the CEZ were more than 30 kilometers apart.
  — WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
• Hubert’s car, which was hit at a speed of upwards of 200 kilometers per hour, split in two in the crash, ESPN reported at the time.
  — Ashley Boucher, PEOPLE.com, 9 Sep. 2019
• Some are tens of kilometers across or larger, while others are only tens of meters or smaller.
  — Toshi Hirabayashi, Discover Magazine, 5 Dec. 2024

Last Updated: 23 Jan 2025