kilometre

[kɪˈlɑːmɪtər]

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

'kilometre' example 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.