How to Use odometer in a Sentence

odometer

noun
  • What is strange about the odometer of the car used in a small-town robbery?
    Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2022
  • That would mean the odometer would add 10 miles for every hour the car was on the lift.
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • It’s been owned by the same person since then and has just 141 miles on the odometer.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 1 Mar. 2023
  • No signs mark the spot, so watch your odometer and look for the unmarked dirt road on the right.
    Weldon B. Johnson, azcentral, 11 June 2020
  • So this can’t be straight, like based on your odometer.
    Laura Johnston, cleveland, 20 Jan. 2023
  • The bright red coupé doesn’t just look good, though—it’s also got just 64 miles on the odometer.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Since then, the brothers have added just half a mile to the odometer, pulling the car onto the trailer.
    Phoebe Wall Howard, Detroit Free Press, 3 Mar. 2018
  • If all that wasn’t intriguing enough, the car has just 587 miles on the odometer.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 3 Jan. 2024
  • The car has also been used sparingly over the last decade, and has just 2,194 miles on the odometer.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 13 Dec. 2021
  • The odometer for this process has been stock prices and real estate prices.
    Clem Chambers, Forbes, 10 Nov. 2021
  • A few years ago and this bout might have been a coin flip, but Kovalev has a lot of mileage on his odometer.
    Joe Williams, USA TODAY Sportsbook Wire, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The trip odometer is buried, and easily blocked by the steering wheel.
    Tribune News Service, cleveland, 13 Nov. 2021
  • Most drivers don’t add more than 40 to 50 miles to an odometer a day anyway.
    Tim Fitzpatrick, The Salt Lake Tribune, 2 June 2022
  • Some banks won’t offer 60-month loans on older cars or cars with lots of miles on the odometer.
    Washington Post, 5 July 2017
  • The odometer showed the car had traveled 1,000 miles the week of the attack — the distance of a round trip to and from the lawyer’s block in Pacific Palisades.
    Christopher Goffard, Los Angeles Times, 29 May 2024
  • The on-bike display has settings for the speed limit, passcode lock and odometer, and that's about it.
    Kevin Purdy, Ars Technica, 12 June 2024
  • Brunelle’s uncle told the Malheur newspaper that the odometer had logged 300 miles for the trip.
    Bay Area News Group, The Mercury News, 3 May 2024
  • The kit even supplies DIYers with a tool to rejigger the speedometer and odometer to work with the taller tires.
    Scott Oldham, Car and Driver, 28 Aug. 2020
  • Adding to the car’s allure is the fact that it’s been completely refurbished and has just 680 miles on the odometer.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 23 June 2021
  • The car remains in impeccable shape and has just 1,643 miles on the odometer.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 27 June 2023
  • The one shown here shows only 1200 miles on the odometer and is up for online auction with Bring a Trailer.
    Ezra Dyer, Car and Driver, 8 Aug. 2022
  • And with just 700 miles on the odometer, the build remains it superb condition.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 14 June 2021
  • Yet the days keep passing, and with them, more at-bats and games pad an odometer that's well into six digits.
    Jon Tayler, SI.com, 13 Sep. 2019
  • If a front-wheel-drive car is put up on a lift, started and put into drive, will the odometer mileage increase?
    Ray Magliozzi, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 July 2022
  • That's four flips of the odometer in six years in a vehicle that’s not known for its creature comforts.
    Roberto Baldwin, Car and Driver, 1 Dec. 2020
  • That’s because the car has only 257 miles on the odometer, having spent most of its life on display.
    Bryan Hood, Robb Report, 28 Oct. 2022
  • The second year was a little shorter but still hit triple digits on the odometer.
    Erik S. Hanley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Aug. 2021
  • The e will cruise at 75 mph or even quicker, but at the cost of watching the range display dropping miles much faster than the odometer adds them.
    Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 3 Nov. 2020
  • My test vehicle — a four-door crew cab — had nearly 9,000 miles on the odometer.
    Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 4 Oct. 2021
  • At the end of its trip, Orion’s odometer will read about 1.3 million miles (2.1 million km).
    Christopher Cokinos, Discover Magazine, 17 Nov. 2022

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