How to Use kilometer in a Sentence
kilometer
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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 closest the missile got to the drone was about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles), Brown said.
— CNN, 16 June 2019 -
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 -
Although the site is more than 500 kilometers from the coast, the Salmon, Snake, and Columbia rivers link it to the sea.
— Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 29 Aug. 2019 -
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 -
The aircraft was 12 miles (19 kilometers) offshore, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
— Associated Press, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025 -
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 -
Two-hundred ten, came the answer—not miles, but kilometers per hour.
— Dan Neil, WSJ, 11 Apr. 2019 -
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 -
More than two million square kilometers are being carved up, leaving little for the rest of the world.
— Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 23 July 2019 -
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 -
Children traveled many kilometers from home to live under the tutelage of religious scholars, or mallams.
— Ogar Monday, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 Feb. 2025
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