How to Use kilometer in a Sentence

kilometer

noun

• Yep, a half kilometer distance — that’s about a third of a mile.
  — Michelle Jenkins, idahostatesman, 5 Mar. 2018
• The two towns, about nine kilometers apart, will host 21 medal events.
  — Catherine Sabino, Forbes.com, 24 Jan. 2026
• He was born 10 kilometers away from where I was born.
  — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 13 June 2026
• Sea level might have risen by a kilometer in just two thousand years.
  — Peter Brannen august 28, Literary Hub, 28 Aug. 2025
• The shoe came off completely around the three or four kilometer mark.
  — Beth Bragg, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Oct. 2017
• Flying on an alien moon more than a billion kilometers away?
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 10 Apr. 2026
• That’s about 84 kilometers per minute.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 2 Oct. 2025
• The next day, a 2-year-old girl who lived 15 kilometers away, died of the virus.
  — Stephanie Nolen Thomas Cristofoletti, New York Times, 21 May 2024
• Halloran then ran a kilometer to meet his wife.
  — Abigail Adams, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
• One of them is 27 kilometers (more than 16½ miles) long.
  — Dave Smith, Fortune, 19 Sep. 2025
• Diggins won a bronze medal in the 10-kilometer freestyle race.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 18 Feb. 2026
• Over billions of years this has formed a layer of methane ice many kilometers thick in places.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• Within a chip, there are more than 160 kilometers of wiring.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Sep. 2025
• Europa harbors a deep ocean beneath a shell of ice that's dozens of kilometers thick.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 9 Jan. 2026
• On to of the heavy snow, winds may gust up to 60 miles (97 kilometers) per hour.
  — Bloomberg, Mercury News, 16 Mar. 2026
• One kilometer from the finish, Packer was still with the lead pack.
  — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2018
• There are 27 kilometers of cross country trails.
  — John Meyer, Denver Post, 29 Jan. 2026
• His final race will be in the 50-kilometer mass start at the weekend.
  — ABC News, 18 Feb. 2026
• 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 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
• So far, about 44 square miles (114 square kilometers) have burned.
  — Michael R. Sisak, Chicago Tribune, 28 June 2026
• This prediction proved to be off by thousands of kilometers.
  — Lee Billings, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2026
• The area is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north from Jerusalem.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 21 June 2023
• Just a few kilometers away, a black bear sniffs and studies the device tethering it to a tree.
  — Ganesh Marín, The Dial, 7 Oct. 2025
• During the lunar day, the rover could have traveled as far as half a kilometer from the lander.
  — Jonathan O'Callaghan, Scientific American, 6 Sep. 2019
• Officials said that the plane crashed in a field less than 2 kilometers away from the airport.
  — Manuel Rueda, Los Angeles Times, 24 Mar. 2026
• The race was in the final kilometer of the eighth stage when the camera captured the plants, which were set up on two plots.
  — Khadrice Rollins, SI.com, 4 Sep. 2019
• This year, many of them did a 50-kilometer race, which translates to about 31 miles.
  — Sheryl Devore, Chicago Tribune, 18 Feb. 2026
• The final event is the women’s 50-kilometer mass start.
  — Los Angeles Times, 22 Feb. 2026
• The earthquake was measured at a depth of 7 kilometers, the service added.
  — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 26 Apr. 2026