Definition: 1. A unit for measuring length; a hundred centimetres. 2. Used in the name of races. 3. The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards. 4. (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse. 5. Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal time.
Use 'metre' in a sentence:
1. Who won the 100-metre race?
2. She won the 400-metre freestyle.
3. A metre equals 39.38 inches.
4. In just 360 hours, a 100-metre-tall tower called the T30 rises from an empty site to overlook Hunan's Xiang River.
5. He drove the ball home from 15 metres.
6. Teams of four roll a complete cheese along a 50-metre course.
7. Every square metre of soil was used, mainly for olives, vines, and almonds.
8. On August 26, 2018, Su Bingtian broke the record and won the men's 100-metre race at the Asian Games.
9. The 160-metre falls mark the dramatic confluence of the rivers Nera and Velino.
10. The plane flew at a height of 3 000 metres.
11. He will be running in the 100 metres tonight.
12. It must be all of 100 metres to the car!
13. She can run 100 metres in just over 11 seconds.
14. It's only a low wall—about a metre high.
15. The river has risen several metres.
16. Davis won the 400 metre hurdles in a new Olympic time of 49.3 sec.
17. It is almost 2 metres in height.
18. Part of it was one metre underground.
19. They were still 100 metres off the summit.
20. She holds the world record for the 100 metres.
21. Thomson was disqualified from the 400 metre freestyle.
22. Japan won the Men's 200 metre individual medley.
23. He became Jamaica's first Olympic gold medallist when he won the 400 metre title in 1948.
24. The boy won in the 400-metre race.
25. The bird's wings have a spread of nearly a metre.
26. By lap two Walker was two metres clear of the rest of the runners.
27. Three attempts on the 200-metre record ended in failure.
28. It is about a metre in length.
29. In 1919, for example, a humpback whale with a pair of leglike appendages over a metre long, complete with a full set of limb bones, was caught off Vancouver Island in Canada.
30. Water was found at a depth of 30 metres.
31. The rope broke and she fell 50 metres onto the rocks.
32. The two houses stood 500 metres apart.
33. Space the posts about a metre apart.
34. Float glass is sold by the square metre, and at the final stage computers translate customer requirements into patterns of cuts designed to minimise waste.
35. The snake can squirt poison from a distance of a metre.
36. The tower stands 30 metres high.
37. The pond measures about 2 metres across.
38. The 800 metres is the fourth event of the afternoon.
39. He won the senior men's 400 metres.
40. Indeed, Mr. Prance's new device can pick up the trace of a heartbeat from a metre away.
41. Let me congratulate you on your winning first place in the 100 metre dash.
42. He said he would aim for the 100 metre world record at the world championships in August.
43. She came second in the 200 metres.
44. He will be competing in the 100-metre race.
45. The world record then stood at 6.59 metres.
46. She had broken the world 100 metres record.
47. She completed the 500 metres in record time.
48. We only sell it by the metre.
49. It's only a low wall ─ about a metre high.
50. You need to allow three metres of fabric for the dress.
51. He fell 20 metres onto the rocks below.
52. Short-wave radio uses the 20-50 metre band.
53. The cables are buried one metre below ground level.
54. They dug down to a depth of two metres.
55. The water flows at about 1.5 metres per second.
56. The shelf is about a metre long—well, 98cm, to be precise.
57. The shelf is about a metre long ─ well, 98cm, to be precise.
