What is "kilometers"

Usage examples of "kilometers".

Slow approach, parallel course, and keep us about two kilometers away.

The corral enclosure itself extends a good three hundred kilometers further in both directions.

The base was on the innermost planet, which the team had dubbed Shadrach: a roughly Mars-sized chunk of lifeless rock with a pair of moons, orbiting some five hundred million kilometers out from the center of the giant.

Now, with billions of cubic kilometers of open space around him, he was suddenly feeling the unpleasant stirrings of claustrophobia.

But Kennedy was right: they were sticking like paste, moving like slaved machines exactly twenty-seven kilometers in front of Quentin.

Twenty-eight kilometers ahead, the two optical nets were a pair of blobs sitting next to each other, each exactly in front of its chosen space horse.

Over twenty flashing circles marked anomalous motion now, the nearest of them twenty thousand kilometers further in toward the black hole.

A hundred kilometers ahead of them, just barely maintaining that distance, were the three space horses.

The wind from the sun, of light and sleeting particles, made the gas and dust stream behind the falling comet nucleus in tails millions of kilometers long.

The tyrannosaur had been the top predator, mistress of the land for a hundred kilometers around, as if the whole elaborate ecosystem was a vast farm run for her benefit.

It was a crater ninety kilometers across and thirty deep formed in minutes.

Already great arching faults had opened up, and immense landslides, tens of kilometers wide, began to collapse the steep walls.

Now they rebounded, rising up through twenty kilometers, breaking through the melt pool to the surface.

The basement rock itself, almost liquefied, quickly spread out into a vast circular structure, a mountain range forty kilometers across, erected in seconds.

In North and South America, across thousands of kilometers, faults gaped and landslides crashed, as the shocked ground shuddered.