Standardised unit

Usage examples of metre.

There was simply not the time to cast it into rhyme or metre, to take care with assonance and ambiguity.

A hundred metres ahead lay the twentieth century, the autoroute junction raised on stilts, sloping down into its cloverleaf pattern that allowed the eye, intent upon its tight curve, no leisure for the driver to stare at the countryside.

Heron was walking on ahead of him, preceding him by some fifty metres or so, his long legs covering the distances more rapidly than de Batz could follow them.

I then descended as deeply in the water as I could, the manometer showing thirty metres.

Hanging a metre off the reservoir bed, motionless, trying to outstare a dolphin.

It has sometimes in the end of words a sound obscure, and scarcely perceptible, as open, shapen, shotten, thistle, participle, metre, lucre.

The photon amp showed a monster crab scuttling right at him, metre length of pipe instead of claw.

It can punch through half a metre of solid prestressed concrete without shattering until it hits something soft.

In panic, he had rushed for the kitchen area and had barely enough time to assume a disguise, secreted there, that Katsumata had given him as, a few metres away, masked by a hedge, the Sergeant shoved past the bowing doorman, kicked off his sandals and stomped onto the veranda of the main house.

A couple of metres from the path a gardener servitor was ambling round an old tree stump which was now hidden beneath the shaggy coat of a stephanotis creeper.

Now lit by many flares, it was revealed to be a narrow twisting chasm that stretched away into darkness for several hundred metres.

U-shaped beams that hung from the ceiling, and it stretched for about fifty metres before it stopped just short of a very large recess in the ceiling.

West and his team, stretching upward for maybe 100 metres, ending at the left-hand sentry tower.

If you suspect there may be a lot of rodents, set numerous traps all at once, every metre or so.

This is the eastern quarter, the oldest human settlement on Tropicana, where the palm-thatched bungalows cluster scant metres above the white sands of Almond Beach.