litre

Definition:
1. A metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of 1 kilogram of pure water at 4 degrees centigrade and 760 mm of mercury (or approximately 1.76 pints).

Use 'litre' in a sentence:

• 1. The distance between the upper and lower mark roughly corresponds to one litre of oil.
• 2. Since 2006, the regulations have required the use of 2.4 litre V8 engines, with power outputs falling around 20 percent.
• 3. Washing a mug under a running tap uses about a litre of water;
• 4. The system consists of the control unit housing the pumps and a 2 Litre dewar.
• 5. Historically, the cost of making Brazilian ethanol has been about 26 cents a litre.
• 6. He emptied his glass and ordered another half litre of wine.
• 7. A group of women wait by the road with empty 20-litre plastic canisters.
• 8. Farmers get 26 shillings a litre, more than twice what they were paid before the dairy opened its doors.
• 9. He lost half a litre of blood and was still in hospital three days later.
• 10. The separation of power machine and compressor gives a available way of improving calorific efficiency and performance per litre.
• 11. Plug-in cars, for example, could be fuelled with electricity at a price equivalent to 25 cents a litre of petrol.
• 12. Last month it cost 28 per cent more to buy a litre of petrol than a year earlier.
• 13. The capacity of this bottle is one litre.
• 14. Petrol is 19.22p a litre more expensive than a year ago, while diesel costs 20.91p more.
• 15. In addition, can use litre fall shade.
• 16. Calculate the average volume of water, in litre, in a beaker.
• 17. The car does ten km. to the litre.
• 18. He drank up a whole litre of beer.
• 19. Previously it was thought there were around 100, 000 microbial cells in every litre of seawater but scientists now think there could be one billion.
• 20. Normal levels are between 2.2 and 2.6 millimoles per litre.
• 21. A litre of teacan contain up to 9mg of fluoride, which in excess can cause skeletal fluorosis, reducing bone quality and causing pain and stiffening of the ligaments.
• 22. Prices started to fall from a high of 136.58p a litre on 8 August to 135.71p on Monday, down 0.87p.
• 23. How much does your car do to the litre?
• 24. As many as four litres of water are used to make a litre of the bottled stuff.
• 25. You is allowed six litre of duty free wine.
• 26. In January it was almost impossible to find a litre of petrol (though diesel was available).
• 27. Yesterday, I ate a whole litre of ice-cream.
• 28. Litre is used as a contents unit.
• 29. A 20-litre jerrycan of poor quality water has quadrupled in price.
• 30. A level of100mg per litre is considered enough to impair brain development in children.
• 31. It is sold to the public at eight cents a litre.
• 32. That means about one and a half litre minimum.
• 33. They will knock back 6.1 million litres of beer, roughly equivalent to one litre per person.
• 34. A car that goes eight kilometres to the litre.
• 35. Make a dilution of the substance by adding one litre of water.
• 36. However, many of the new buyers of SUVs in China are more interested in social status than miles per litre.
• 37. One litre of pure alcohol contains 1000 millilitres. There are 10 millilitres in every unit of alcohol.
• 38. Primary study on large scale culture of Catharanthus roseus cells in 70 litre bioreactor.
• 39. Oil product prices remain above the 80 cents per litre Chinese motorists pay at the pump.
• 40. That's the conclusion of a recently released study, which analysed 259 bottles from 11 brands sold in nine countries, revealing an average of 325 plastic particles per litre of water.
• 41. It currently takes one litre of water to produce one calorie of food.
• 42. The company's latest newcomer is a 4 x 4 estate with a 2.2 litre petrol engine.
• 43. In the early 1990s, such batteries had an energy density of about 100 watt-hours per litre.
• 44. A litre of gas has less mass than a litre of water.
• 45. New Japanese cars averaged 13 km to the litre in 1981.
• 46. This translates into roughly an extra four cents a litre of petrol at the pump.
• 47. About 1 dessertspoonful of cooking salt in 1 litre of tap-water is suitable.
• 48. It's cheap there, well a litre of whisky was two pounds.
• 49. It takes about one litre of water to produce one calorie from food crops.
• 50. It costs £ 10.86 for one litre including carriage.
• 51. Litre is a metric denomination.
• 52. One tablet will purify a litre of water.
• 53. This tax would raise petrol prices by about 3.5p per litre.
• 54. Diesel will cost more, but petroleum-based diesel sells in America for 57 cents a litre before distribution costs and tax, so there should be room for profit.
• 55. Ethanol is corrosive and has less energy per litre than petrol and diesel.
• 56. He polished off a large steak, salad, broccoli swimming in thick sauce, and half a litre of wine.