How to Use liter in a Sentence

liter

noun
  • The company hopes to get the cost down to about $2 per liter.
    Peter Valdes-Dapena, CNN, 19 Mar. 2021
  • In this study, the group was able to float half a liter, or four cups, of liquid.
    Jennifer Walter, Discover Magazine, 2 Sep. 2020
  • One way would be to say that a kilogram is the mass of 1 liter of water.
    Rhett Allain, Wired, 8 Mar. 2021
  • For a smaller day pack, check out the 25 liter version.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 9 Dec. 2022
  • Oil prices were around 30 UAH per liter before the war broke.
    Somayeh Malekian, ABC News, 10 Mar. 2022
  • The 90th percentile with only the 1st liter data is 6 ppb.
    Kristen Jordan Shamus, Detroit Free Press, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Tetrick said costs need to come down to 10 cents or 20 cents per liter.
    Tim Carman, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
  • There is no gas and people sell it at 350 UAH per liter.
    Washington Post, 18 Mar. 2022
  • These flows blow through about 600 liters of the gas per minute, with that amount likely to rise in the future.
    IEEE Spectrum, 12 June 2023
  • The product will be sold by the liter, retailing at $20.
    Jennifer Castenson, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
  • The cost can exceed $150 a liter — enough to feed a newborn for two days, or a 3-month-old for one.
    Sonja Sharpstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 19 May 2022
  • That makes the cost of oil a smaller percentage of the overall price of a liter of gas.
    Tom Fairless, WSJ, 17 June 2018
  • The liter bottle of wine never requires you to work for it.
    Sunset Magazine, 3 Dec. 2020
  • In contrast, the curve for Guadalupe shot straight up into the millions of copies per liter.
    Megan Molteni, STAT, 17 June 2021
  • The average adult has between 4.5 and 5.5 liters of blood in his body.
    Dylan Hernandez, latimes.com, 27 June 2019
  • In the hospital, doctors drained two and a half liters of fluid from the wall of his lungs.
    Debbie Cenziper, ProPublica, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The kilogram was the mass of a liter of distilled water at its freezing point.
    Robert Rathe, National Geographic, 20 May 2019
  • There are sizes in five-liter increments from 10 to 30 liters.
    Gear Team, Wired, 23 June 2021
  • The suspect appears to have knocked over a stack of two-liter soda bottles in the process.
    Elizabeth Zwirz, Fox News, 24 Aug. 2018
  • The top wines here are the Pas Dosé; (extremely dry, containing up to 3 grams per liter) and the Satèn.
    Tom Hyland, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • Shop by unit price Unit price is how much a product costs per ounce or pound or liter.
    Daniel De Visé, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2025
  • The machine comes with a five-liter water tank that attaches to the side.
    Scott Kramer, Forbes, 19 Mar. 2021
  • The amount varies by unit, with the average being anywhere from 2 to 6 liters.
    Jamie Weissman, Better Homes & Gardens, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Weighing in at 12 ounces, the pad packs down to the size of a liter water bottle (4 x 9 inches).
    Johanna Flashman, SELF, 15 Mar. 2022
  • Since the start of the century, the average cost per liter of wine has increased from $10 to $14.
    Ash Reynolds, NBC News, 19 Jan. 2025
  • One liter of water for every two hours of hiking is a good rule of thumb.
    Caroleine James, The Salt Lake Tribune, 23 July 2021
  • In cruise mode and city driving, the five-liter plant lays low, quiet but ready and waiting.
    Bill Roberson, Forbes, 27 Apr. 2021
  • Or, people can purchase a pint glass for $2 or a liter stein glass for $5 at the beer garden.
    Hannah Kirby, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 15 Mar. 2022
  • The high-revving mill will have a displacement of 4.0 liters and come equipped with a pair of turbochargers.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 20 May 2024
  • Each canister is supposed to make two liters of water, and the math works out to about $1 per liter of sparkling water, which is more than the 50 cents or so per liter of a regular soda maker’s tank.
    Wilder Davies, Bon Appétit, 11 Feb. 2025

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