meter

Example Sentences

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He was trapped at the bottom under about a meter of dense avalanche debris — which starts out fluffy but can quickly harden to the consistency of concrete.

From Los Angeles Times

Ms. Kole, a composer herself, points out that almost all of Bacharach’s songs are written in “mixed meter,” with the first seven bars of “Promises, Promises” moving through five time changes.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bat knew this because he liked his mother to push the button on the dashboard each morning, the one that reset the trip meter.

From Literature

But many of those spectators were cast into darkness for four or five minutes early on until someone put some change in the meter, the scoring screens flickered back into life and play resumed.

From BBC

The wind was picking up, raising waves a meter high, and I could barely watch as we rolled over them.

From Literature