How to Use kilometer in a Sentence

kilometer

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  • The area is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north from Jerusalem.
    — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 21 June 2023
  • The best way for the penguins to get cool is to jump in the ocean, but some of them have to walk more than a kilometer to get there.
    — Catrin Einhorn Thea Traff, New York Times, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The two men were born a couple of years and 700 kilometers apart in the Soviet Union.
    — Katherine Howell, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
  • Friends searched the area and found one of Monica’s pink shoes a few kilometers from her house.
    — Rael Ombuor, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2024
  • The spacecraft returned some of the best data and images of Deimos yet from as low as 100 kilometers above the moon’s surface.
    — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 2 May 2023
  • Over billions of years this has formed a layer of methane ice many kilometers thick in places.
    — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
  • The terrain park and 20 kilometers of Nordic trails also will be available.
    — Michael Deeds, Idaho Statesman, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Located some 13 kilometers (about 8 miles) from the center of Beirut, the US’ new embassy compound in Lebanon looks like a city of its own.
    — Nadeen Ebrahim, CNN, 12 May 2023
  • Many of the sensors that showed simultaneous spikes in the CEZ were more than 30 kilometers apart.
    — WIRED, 7 Aug. 2023
  • In the Kula area of Maui, at least two homes were destroyed in a fire that engulfed about 1.7 square miles (4.5 square kilometers), Bissen said.
    — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2023
  • In fact, some of the pyroclastic flows may have made it up to ~10 miles (20 kilometers) out from the volcano in a directed blast.
    — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 28 Apr. 2023
  • One fire moved as fast as a mile (1.6 kilometers) every minute, according to Green.
    — Claire Rush, Audrey McAvoy and Christopher Weber, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Aug. 2023
  • The home is near the community of Conroe, north of Houston and about 20 miles (32 kilometers) from his home in the rural town of Cleveland.
    — Juan A. Lozano and Nomaan Merchant, Anchorage Daily News, 3 May 2023
  • Twenty two kilometers to the city are constantly under fire, both during the day and at night.
    — Patrick Reevell, ABC News, 23 Oct. 2023
  • Bakhmut is small, roughly 40 square kilometers, and just a little more than an hour by bicycle from end to end.
    — Haiane Avakian, The Atlantic, 27 Sep. 2023
  • The spears and other tools were carved from spruce, larch, and pine, species that grew many kilometers away from the lake and combined hardness with elasticity.
    — Byandrew Curry, science.org, 1 Apr. 2024
  • Magma seemed to have gathered a few kilometers below the surface.
    — Robin George Andrews, Scientific American, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Three kilometers from the end of the stage, as fans set off flares beside them, Pogacar flipped the script with a surprising counterpunch and won the stage, gaining 24 seconds back.
    — Kevin Draper, New York Times, 23 July 2023
  • For now, while the capsule circles the Earth at thousands of kilometers per hour, the licensing process on the surface seems to be proceeding at a snail’s pace.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 24 Oct. 2023
  • One time we were booked to play a high school near Magnetawan, Ontario, about three hundred kilometers from Toronto.
    — Geddy Lee, Rolling Stone, 14 Nov. 2023
  • With no more obstacles in its path, the water tore through the countryside, fanning out over dozens of kilometers.
    — James Glanz, New York Times, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Respect the exclusion radius of 12 kilometers from the crater, being within this area is not safe.
    — Ingrid Vasquez, Peoplemag, 29 Feb. 2024
  • Two of the locations are less than two kilometers from the most fortified and patrolled section of the Gaza-Israel border.
    — Paul P. Murphy, CNN, 12 Oct. 2023
  • The eruption fissure measured about 4 kilometers (about 2.5 miles) long.
    — Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 19 Dec. 2023
  • Edmonds and the others were marched fifty kilometers in the freezing cold to the Gerolstein railway station, several dying along the way.
    — Richard Hurowitz, Time, 19 Aug. 2023
  • The team’s radar detectors were designed to measure the waves bouncing off the ionosphere’s E layer, a region 100 kilometers up.
    — Byjonathan O’Callaghan, science.org, 12 May 2023
  • In some parts of the Deccan Traps, the volcanic layers are more than two kilometers (1.2 miles) thick, making this the second-largest volcanic eruption ever on land.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 29 Nov. 2023
  • So data is coming in from 40 meters down the fiber optic cable and 40 kilometers away, and every little point in between—all day and night.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Jakub is six months into that solo voyage and 500 million kilometers from home when cabin fever starts getting to him.
    — David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 Feb. 2024
  • The disruption followed earlier protests at the port, 60 kilometers (40 miles) north of Ledegem, and around the country which cost tens of millions of euros in transport delays and spoilt goods.
    — Raf Casert, Fortune, 15 Feb. 2024

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