kilometer

[ US /ˈkɪɫəˌmitɝ, kəˈɫɑmətɝ/ ]
[ UK /kɪlˈɒmɪtɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a metric unit of length equal to 1000 meters (or 0.621371 miles)
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How To Use kilometer In A Sentence

  • The protests were going on about 1 kilometers away in the main street and some of the protesting crowd were running from tear gass used among them, towards Salehi St. The film is shot by my friend who was standing beside me. Iran Election Live-Blogging (Saturday June 20 Part II)
  • Spacewatch discovers hundreds of new kilometer-sized belt asteroids with every observing run.
  • The villages of San Juan and San Salvador Paricutín, the last just one kilometer from the rising volcano, were in danger, but nobody wanted to abandon land and home. Paricutín, The Volcano, Michoacán
  • At 3.1 kilometers, this dive is the longest underwater traverse of two cave systems in the world.
  • A thirty - six volt battery can carry the rickshaw forty kilometers.
  • A red-roofed settlement lost in the green hills of the southern Charente, around 500 kilometers from Paris, Aubeterre-sur-Dronne's main feature is not immediately visible. Visiting Charm-Guaranteed French Villages
  • People inside the 50-kilometer (30-mile) tunnel, known as the Chunnel, were evacuated through a service tunnel that runs between the two train-carrying tunnels, Eurotunnel officials said. Top Stories - Google News
  • A few kilometers outside the Park and summit area, congenerics found include the legume Adenocarpus foliosus, the bugloss Echium virescens and the daisy Argynantemum frutescens. Teide National Park, Spain
  • Eight biathlon events, 12 cross country ski races and three Nordic combined events were held on the 31 kilometer course.
  • In other wet news, the Cassini-Huygens probe successfully buzzed Saturns moon Enceladus yesterday at a height of 50 kilometers (30 miles) and a speed of 14.4 kilometers per second (32,000 miles per hour). Water, water…. somewhere? « Imaginary Potential
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