How to Use meter in a Sentence

meter

noun

• Storm surge could rise as high as 16 feet (4.9 meters) in some places.
  — Terry Spencer, Anchorage Daily News, 30 Aug. 2023
• Tree pollen has risen to a still-low 2.88 grains per cubic meter.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 7 Feb. 2024
• Its short and light body is easy to grip yet can take a drop or be submersed in up to 2 meters of water.
  — Hunter Fenollol, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2023
• The average length of the vessels was 12 meters (39 feet).
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 24 May 2023
• There are 20 different steps and over 17 meters of trim for each bag.
  — Isiah Magsino, Town & Country, 25 Aug. 2023
• Look at gram weight Towel weight is measured in GSMs, or grams (of weight) per square meter.
  — Katherine Alex Beaven, Travel + Leisure, 1 June 2023
• Rogers made an aggressive move with about 250 meters to go, and had the lead coming off the final turn.
  — oregonlive, 9 July 2023
• It can be used to show you how charged your phone is with the rear vertical LED acting like a progress meter.
  — Iyaz Akhtar, PCMAG, 11 July 2023
• Pollen update: Grass pollen is high at 24.3 grains per cubic meter of air.
  — Ian Livingston, Washington Post, 6 June 2023
• Sparks reached four meters in height, according to the report.
  — Helena Skinner, ABC News, 5 Oct. 2023
• Some cities use decibel meters that don’t measure the pounding bass beat that keeps the bar scene popping.
  — Susannah Bryan, Sun Sentinel, 12 Jan. 2024
• It’s rated up to IPX7, which means the contents are protected for up to 30 minutes at a depth of 1 meter.
  — Rena Behar, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2023
• Falyn Lott took second place in the long jump and 100 meter hurdles, as did teammate Hannah Forde in the triple jump.
  — Lee Nichols, Dallas News, 12 May 2023
• Spruce is upgrading the meters to 4G, but the chip shortage has led to slow production of new meters.
  — Alana Semuels, Time, 26 Sep. 2023
• The bus fell about 50 meters after going over the barrier.
  — Sammy Westfall, Washington Post, 28 Mar. 2024
• But the genus—which includes the largest flowers in the world, at more than a meter across—is at risk due to the destruction of forest habitats in Southeast Asia.
  — WIRED, 23 Sep. 2023
• All of the other stuff, from the seat's pump-up thigh support to the acceleration-and-braking g-meter, gets old fast.
  — Rich Ceppos, Car and Driver, 12 Apr. 2023
• The metric is calculated based on a person's weight in kilograms and height in square meters.
  — Alyssa Hui, Verywell Health, 11 Mar. 2024
• The Israelis said the fuel was 300 meters from the hospital and available for collection.
  — Zoe Magee, ABC News, 13 Nov. 2023
• The dream home was a few hundred meters from the gas chambers and the crematoria, separated only by the camp wall.
  — Scott Roxborough, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Jan. 2024
• Electricians are brought in to bypass the electricity meters, so growers can tap a free source of power to run grow lights and fans.
  — Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024
• What’s important about this attack is that, two meters from Leonid’s home, some people were waiting for him with a hammer and a can of pepper spray.
  — TIME, 17 Apr. 2024
• Until now, the limit had been set to 100 micrograms of silica per cubic meter of air, double the new amount.
  — Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 16 Apr. 2024
• In Tumon, on Guam’s northeastern shore, winds tore a granite countertop from a hotel’s outdoor bar and tossed it 4 feet (about a meter) in the air.
  — Grace Garces Bordallo and Sarah Brumfield, Anchorage Daily News, 24 May 2023
• American Ashton Eaton defends his Olympic decathlon title, equaling the games record with a surge on the last lap of the 1,500 meters — the last event in the two-day competition.
  — Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 18 Aug. 2023
• The tripartite case is assembled with 20 screws and two seals, which ensure the watch is water resistant up to 50 meters.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 16 Nov. 2023
• Our end-state media hub will be about a million square meters footprint and will start with 50 soundstages and offer the full-range value chain in each of those verticals.
  — Georg Szalai, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Dec. 2023
• The posts include footage of the rover’s exit and its first several meters of driving as well as pictures from the rover itself and data from the mission’s instruments.
  — Wes Davis, The Verge, 28 Aug. 2023
• While some may be small, intended for one-off attacks, others are thought to be dozens of meters deep and connected to larger networks.
  — Loveday Morris, Washington Post, 5 Dec. 2023
• Residents and aid groups gathered the bodies of those who were washed out to sea when historic rain caused two dams to burst and sent millions of cubic meters of floodwater through the center of the city.
  — Mithil Aggarwal, NBC News, 17 Sep. 2023

Last Updated: 28 May 2024