kilometre

Definition:
1. A metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles.

Use 'kilometre' in a sentence:

• 1. We should have turned left five kilometres back.
• 2. Yet with around 7, 000 people per square kilometre, Singapore is the third most densely populated country in the world.
• 3. that could flow out of a cubic kilometre of rock.
• 4. This capsule, it is hoped, will contain material from Itokawa, a half-kilometre-long asteroid whose orbit crosses the Earth's.
• 5. Every cubic kilometre of the ring contains around 20 tiny particles of dust, making it so tenuous, it would be invisible from the inside.
• 6. The earthquake had its epicentre two-hundred kilometres north-east of the capital.
• 7. The bus is maybe a kilometre out when, through the window, I see Armando.
• 8. A few kilometres after the village, turn right to Montelabate.
• 9. The fire destroyed some 40,000 square kilometres of forest.
• 10. Ranges vary, but General Motors Corp. is aiming at a 60-kilometre distance for its Chevrolet Volt, which is due out late next year.
• 11. There are still several kilometres off from the railway station.
• 12. It's about 70 ─ no, I'm wrong ─ 80 kilometres from Rome.
• 13. I had been travelling at 150 kilometres an hour.
• 14. They get just 0.12 euros per kilometre if they take a bus or train.
• 15. Recently they have been advancing about a kilometre a day.
• 16. In places, there are a million pieces of plastic per square kilometre.
• 17. It seems to have lost an entire 40-kilometre-long flank in one catastrophic event, say the researchers.
• 18. Continue down the same road for another 2 kilometres until you reach the church of Santa Maria.
• 19. There are 10 train stations on the 14.3-kilometre line.
• 20. What is most curious about these tracks is that the rock they are in is reckoned to have formed at least a kilometre below sea level.
• 21. Anyone planning to jump in front of a train is urged to bear in mind a high-speed train needs a kilometre to stop.
• 22. She started to raise money for the trip and when she was 12, she had enough for the 11,000-kilometre journey.
• 23. A landscape with an average of 45 people per square kilometre is ideal for sparking wildfires.
• 24. In one month, dust fall can reach as much as 17kg per square kilometre.
• 25. Less than a kilometre away a similar school has been held for several months, for strawberry as well as mango farmers.
• 26. In a minute a cheetah can run about 1 kilometre and a half.
• 27. For shooting to go ahead, the density of birds must exceed 200 grouse per square kilometre.
• 28. IBM's software is built for the SKA telescope (Square Kilometre Array) and allows to automatically classify astronomical objects.
• 29. It's a good five kilometres from here to the airport.
• 30. For his first trip, he went hiking with a friend around the M25—a 188-kilometre road that goes all the way around London.
• 31. A 25-kilometre-long fissure erupted 12 km3 of lava over the course of seven months.
• 32. Design on water pipeline of a kilometre shaft.
• 33. The trough of low pressure extended over about 1000 kilometres.
• 34. The UN Environment Programme reckoned in 2006 that every square kilometre of sea held nearly 18, 000 pieces of floating plastic.
• 35. Mine is 1. 2 yuan a kilometre.
• 36. A private 495-kilometre rail line will be built, along with new jetties and ports near Bowen.
• 37. They ran to the main road and on for a kilometre until ambulances could reach them.
• 38. For the final 85-kilometre stretch, we decided to carry on all night.
• 39. The velocity of light is about 300000 kilometres per second.
• 40. She dropped out after 20 kilometres with stomach trouble.
• 41. Earth, with its four-kilometre-deep oceans, responds only slowly to changes of carbon dioxide.
• 42. This new plane can reach a speed of 900 kilometres an hour.
• 43. The vehicles have a top speed of 80 kilometres per hour.
• 44. The centre of the town is 4 kilometres from the station.
• 45. By my reckoning we were seven or eight kilometres from Borj Mechaab.
• 46. Eight kilometres is roughly equivalent to five miles.
• 47. 400,000 square kilometres of the Amazon basin have already been deforested.
• 48. He broke through the pain barrier at 25 kilometres and went on to win his first marathon.
• 49. They were detected at depths of more than a kilometre in the sea.
• 50. The car has a maximum speed of 120 kilometres an hour.
• 51. The helicopter can zip along at about 150 kilometres an hour.
• 52. The Philippines has just 6,000 square kilometres of forest left.
• 53. The town lies a few kilometres inland.
• 54. The reserve covers an area of some 1 140 square kilometres.
• 55. The turn is about two kilometres before the roundabout.
• 56. The airport was about 20 kilometres distant.
• 57. Most people walk at an average rate of 5 kilometres an hour.