How to Use kilometer in a Sentence

kilometer

noun

• 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
• Look at the tenth and final kilometer, on the far right.
  — Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 27 Mar. 2021
• The area is about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north from Jerusalem.
  — Kareem Khadder, CNN, 21 June 2023
• The closest the missile got to the drone was about 1 kilometer (0.6 miles), Brown said.
  — CNN, 16 June 2019
• 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
• Yep, a half kilometer distance — that’s about a third of a mile.
  — Michelle Jenkins, idahostatesman, 5 Mar. 2018
• And then, the final kilometer, the steepest of the ride at 11 percent.
  — Steve Wartenberg, San Diego Union-Tribune, 13 Nov. 2022
• The two men were born a couple of years and 700 kilometers apart in the Soviet Union.
  — Katherine Howell, National Review, 12 Oct. 2023
• 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
• Located in Rome, Italy, the home of the Pope spans less than half a square kilometer.
  — Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 22 Nov. 2022
• Although the site is more than 500 kilometers from the coast, the Salmon, Snake, and Columbia rivers link it to the sea.
  — Lizzie Wade, Science | AAAS, 29 Aug. 2019
• Reports said the pieces were strewn over an area about a kilometer (0.6 miles) wide.
  — Jim Heintz, The Seattle Times, 11 Feb. 2018
• The Belmont is a 1.5-mile or (2.4 kilometer) horse race.
  — Scooby Axson, SI.com, 6 June 2018
• 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
• One kilometer from the finish, Packer was still with the lead pack.
  — Nathaniel Herz, Anchorage Daily News, 10 Feb. 2018
• The storied falls stretch for a kilometer across the border with a drop of some 110 meters.
  — Farai Shawn Matiashe, Quartz Africa, 11 Dec. 2019
• The world’s fastest hunter—the peregrine falcon—snatches prey out of the sky at speeds of more than 300 kilometers per hour.
  — Katie Langin, Science | AAAS, 12 Apr. 2018
• The shoe came off completely around the three or four kilometer mark.
  — Beth Bragg, Alaska Dispatch News, 2 Oct. 2017
• The aircraft was 12 miles (19 kilometers) offshore, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
  — Associated Press, TIME, 7 Feb. 2025
• Matson says the company plans to ship the bikes with three to four trails in the system, each about 20 kilometers long.
  — Marah Eakin, WIRED, 7 May 2024
• The Hong Kong Marathon is an umbrella event for three races --10 kilometers, half and full marathon.
  — Calum Trenaman, CNN, 30 Jan. 2020
• 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
• Tunnels up to 26 kilometers in length, carved through rock.
  — Andy Greene, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2025
• 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 the next two days, the troops shot and hunted fleeing women and children in a 35-square-mile (90-square-kilometer) area.
  — Patty Nieberg, Star Tribune, 25 Feb. 2021
• The images show 30 or 40 structures per square kilometer, but those structures weren’t all built or used at the same time.
  — Kiona N. Smith, Ars Technica, 2 Feb. 2018
• Over billions of years this has formed a layer of methane ice many kilometers thick in places.
  — Discover Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• However, this means that the buoys have to be within 50 kilometers of the shore, in the case of a reference station.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 22 Apr. 2024
• Back then, the journey to the terminus was 10 to 15 kilometers by foot through steep, rocky terrain.
  — The Atlantic, 6 June 2018
• Additionally, the union brass repeated a claim that truck drivers have been able to travel up to 100 kilometers with no compensation.
  — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 23 June 2025