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
• 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
• 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 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
• 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
• 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
• In the Kula area of Maui, at least two homes were destroyed in a fire that engulfed about 1.7 square miles (4.5 square kilometers), Bissen said.
  — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
• This equates to 84 kilometers of new public beaches to cater to the needs of the resident population and the influx of tourists from all over the world.
  — Dubai Tourism Contributor, Forbes, 22 Oct. 2024
• In fact, some of the pyroclastic flows may have made it up to ~10 miles (20 kilometers) out from the volcano in a directed blast.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
• My cousin and his wife and kids live just a kilometer away from the military airport that was blown up right as Putin made the announcement.
  — Tomás Mier, Rolling Stone, 26 Feb. 2022
• Switzerland – which uses its fees in part to deter heavy trucks passing through on the way to or from Italy – charges up to 0.8 Swiss francs per kilometer.
  — Todd J. Gillman, Dallas News, 20 May 2021
• One fire moved as fast as a mile (1.6 kilometers) every minute, according to Green.
  — Claire Rush, Audrey McAvoy and Christopher Weber, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
• The home is near the community of Conroe, north of Houston and about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from his home in the rural town of Cleveland.
  — Juan A. Lozano and Nomaan Merchant, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
• In this case, those images were captured by WorldView 3–a satellite at an altitude of 617 kilometers above the Earth’s surface.
  — Mack Degeurin, Popular Science, 30 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 18 Nov 2024