10 sentences with 'metres'
Example sentences and phrases with the word metres and other words derived from it.
• « We had walked about 100 metres through the knee-high grass when suddenly a swallow buzzed over Jerry's head in search of insects in the faint evening light. »
• « The dog ran for another 100 metres and then headed for the pond, splashed in the water and made a thousand drops sparkle like pearls when illuminated by the sun's rays. »
• « Susan was about two metres away from the girl, looking upstream, when Laura turned away from the pond. »
• « Two hundred metres away, Gregory Ysais, an electronics technician from Mission Viejo, heard the cries of despair and ran to them. »
• « The Arctic region has most of its 17 million square metres of land area permanently covered by ice, with layers as thick as three to four metres. »
• « The southern region of Mesopotamia, Sumer, has an elevation gradient of only 50 metres over a distance of about 500 kilometres, meaning that the riverbeds of both rivers would have shifted and spread across the plains in the annual floods. »
• « They resumed their journey in the evening and, at 3:30 a.m., stopped less than 500 metres from a Chinese military post. »
• « The guide then pointed to the Thung Gorge, which winds its way up to 5000 metres, and made an announcement: There, where you see those clouds, we are going to be today. Then they began the ascent. »
• « The river was about 45 metres wide, and they crossed it, dodging the chunks of ice that swirled in the current and treading carefully on the rocky riverbed. »