measure out
Example Sentences
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He had to hurry, Lifshitz said, and measure out five new plots before the hostages got home.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 12, 2025
Now is also a good time to measure out your essential oils into an extra measuring cup, for ease of adding them later.
From Salon • Jul. 15, 2022
And then I read the recipe one more time and measure out the ingredients.
From New York Times • Mar. 2, 2022
Instead of wide-open runs, it invites travelers to measure out the landscape in hours, days or weeks spent on skis.
From Washington Post • Feb. 18, 2022
Sometimes the light quanta seemed to measure out at three or four meters long; sometimes they appeared to be “just a little bundle of energy,” Beams recalled.
From "Big Science" by Michael Hiltzik
