Examples of liter in a Sentence
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This Riesling Kabinett is delightfully sweet with 91 grams of residual sugar per liter and has only 7.7 percent alcohol by volume.
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Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024
At another the supply was slow and organized: A half-dozen drivers took 20-minute turns for fill-ups of around 6,000 liters, or about 1,600 gallons, just a few steps from a lake depleted to a puddle.
—Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
As for sensitivity levels, a test that detects a range of 20-50 IU/L (international units per liter) will typically capture the surge of LH.
—Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 Mar. 2024
Camaguey, one of Cuba’s main ranching hubs, only produced 42.8 million liters (11.3 million gallons) of milk last year, out of 81.3 million liters (21.5 million gallons) that producers had agreed to sell.
Producers, for their part, complain that government prices don’t cover expenses.
—Andrea Rodriguez, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024
The set comes with six bags that each fit up to 90 liters of clothes, linens, toys, bedding, and other household items.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
For those striking at the gates of the SRW scrap metal plant, just outside Germany’s eastern city of Leipzig, time can be counted not just in days — 136 so far — but in the thousands of card games played, the liters of coffee imbibed and the armfuls of firewood burned.
—Erika Solomon, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
This January, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released a study that found the average liter of bottled water contains about 240,000 bits of micro- and nanoplastics.
—Tamar Adler, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2024
But across Griffith there are clusters of metal storage tanks, each holding thousands of liters.
—Reuters, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024
At another the supply was slow and organized: A half-dozen drivers took 20-minute turns for fill-ups of around 6,000 liters, or about 1,600 gallons, just a few steps from a lake depleted to a puddle.
—Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
As for sensitivity levels, a test that detects a range of 20-50 IU/L (international units per liter) will typically capture the surge of LH.
—Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 Mar. 2024
Camaguey, one of Cuba’s main ranching hubs, only produced 42.8 million liters (11.3 million gallons) of milk last year, out of 81.3 million liters (21.5 million gallons) that producers had agreed to sell.
Producers, for their part, complain that government prices don’t cover expenses.
—Andrea Rodriguez, Quartz, 24 Mar. 2024
The set comes with six bags that each fit up to 90 liters of clothes, linens, toys, bedding, and other household items.
—Isabel Garcia, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
For those striking at the gates of the SRW scrap metal plant, just outside Germany’s eastern city of Leipzig, time can be counted not just in days — 136 so far — but in the thousands of card games played, the liters of coffee imbibed and the armfuls of firewood burned.
—Erika Solomon, New York Times, 22 Mar. 2024
This January, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences released a study that found the average liter of bottled water contains about 240,000 bits of micro- and nanoplastics.
—Tamar Adler, Vogue, 18 Mar. 2024
But across Griffith there are clusters of metal storage tanks, each holding thousands of liters.
—Reuters, CNN, 9 Mar. 2024
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liter
noun
li·ter
variants
or chiefly British litre
: a metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of one kilogram of water at 4°C (39°F) and at standard atmospheric pressure of 760 millimeters of mercury
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