How to Use meter in a Sentence

meter

1 of 2 noun

• First call for the 55-meter dash.
  — Bruce Feldman, New York Times, 25 Mar. 2026
• Lake soared over two meters at her first attempt.
  — George Ramsay, New York Times, 23 June 2026
• Its reach spans from floor level to two meters high.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
• How about someone a few meters away?
  — Natalia Winkelman, IndieWire, 24 Jan. 2026
• The two endpoints are, of course, one meter apart.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 6 Feb. 2026
• There’s lots of speed in the 100 meters.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 4 May 2026
• The plane struck the roof of one of the townhomes and two gas meters.
  — Asal Rezaei, CBS News, 5 Mar. 2026
• That last 100 meters is the part that will wreck you.
  — Kevin Sintumuang, Outside, 11 Mar. 2026
• And at the speed of light, at the top of the meter, there’s no space for time in there.
  — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 18 Apr. 2026
• And don’t let that meter expire.
  — Marla Jo Fisher, Oc Register, 3 June 2026
• There, roots tunnel many meters down.
  — Literary Hub, 25 Mar. 2026
• This meter should be as cold as an Icelandic ice bar.
  — Zach Harper, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2025
• In the pre-game hype, the ad-less big screens ran a decibel meter for each team.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 17 June 2026
• The water was at least a meter deep in sections of the cave.
  — Kocha Olarn, CNN Money, 31 May 2026
• The flow rate meter also takes some getting used to.
  — Adam Campbell-Schmitt, Bon Appetit Magazine, 8 Mar. 2026
• The plane struck the roof area of one of the townhouses and two gas meters.
  — Clifford Ward, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2026
• About how, close to the coast, it would be buried below the seabed at a depth of two meters.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The Dial, 14 Oct. 2025
• Ayn al-‘Asal was five meters wide by your father’s mill.
  — Literary Hub, 17 Oct. 2025
• Monkeys move through layers of leaves and vines dozens of meters above the ground.
  — Scott Travers, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026
• Are you required to stop at traffic meters?
  — Don Sweeney, Sacbee.com, 31 Jan. 2026
• Next, note the grams per square meter (GSM).
  — Yelena Moroz Alpert, Architectural Digest, 28 Apr. 2026
• Over at the spa, there's a 14-meter pool, and a host of treatments.
  — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 4 June 2026
• Now picture an elk or one of the larger deer species, which can reach over two meters tall.
  — Ryan Brennan april 24, Miami Herald, 24 Apr. 2026
• At the same time, faults in the area spread by anywhere from 2 to 4 meters.
  — John Timmer, ArsTechnica, 8 July 2026
• The final event of the day was the men’s 300-meter dash.
  — Katelyn Hutchison, Forbes.com, 25 Jan. 2026
• Five belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
  — Kevin J. Farmer, San Diego Union-Tribune, 18 Oct. 2025
• Guatemala observed a few tsunamis less than one meter above the tide level but said the threat was low.
  — Uriel Blanco, CNN Money, 17 July 2026
• Ireland set up a ruck on its 22-meter line but again lost the ball to a loose pass.
  — ABC News, 18 July 2026
• Four belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
  — Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Oct. 2025
• Four belches on the U-T five-belch meter.
  — Tim Meehan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Sep. 2025

meter

2 of 2 verb

• Nuclear power may one day be too cheap to meter, but that day is not yet in sight.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 11 Mar. 2026
• Tried to meter the control there, which is very hard when someone likes cocaine.
  — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 28 July 2024
• Each unit is metered for gas and electricity and has its own hot water heater.
  — Samantha Gowen, Oc Register, 5 Feb. 2026
• Use one of these to help meter out the fertilizer over the summer months.
  — Tom MacCubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 29 May 2021
• Token usage is metered per agent and per team so finance can attribute the spend.
  — Janakiram Msv, Forbes.com, 6 July 2026
• The track includes pumping bass triplets and metered sub-bass quarter notes that ground the tempo.
  — PC Magazine, 29 July 2025
• All taxis are metered at set rates established by the government.
  — Skye Sherman, Travel + Leisure, 7 Apr. 2023
• Clarify with your driver that your ride will be metered before getting in the cab.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Apr. 2019
• The next cheapest option is metered parking.
  — Ella Gonzales june 2, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 2 June 2026
• The changes would only affect parking structures, not metered street spots.
  — Mark Dee march 9, Idaho Statesman, 9 Mar. 2026
• The entire rhythm of the enterprise was metered by how fast people could think, read and decide.
  — MSNBC Newsweek, 30 Mar. 2026
• The retailer has given store workers tools to meter shopper traffic.
  — Phil Wahba, Fortune, 22 Oct. 2020
• The other spaces on Summer Street are metered and limited to two hours.
  — Sean P. Murphy, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Mar. 2023
• The driver flagged down that officer just past the metering lights of the I-80 onramp.
  — Rick Hurd, The Mercury News, 9 Jan. 2025
• But billing systems often rely on usage metrics—what’s easiest to meter.
  — Scott Woody, Forbes.com, 1 Aug. 2025
• Others need a long leash and a safety harness at the same time, which is why danger must be metered out with personalization front and center.
  — Alexander Puutio, Forbes.com, 25 Feb. 2026
• The event is free, but organizers gave away tickets to meter the number of people who will be allowed inside the 10-acre park.
  — Jay R. Jordan, Chron, 17 June 2022
• Pedal assist is metered by a torque sensor for better efficiency and smooth engagement.
  — William Roberson, Forbes, 25 Feb. 2025
• People who live in rural Arizona not only don't want urban-style rules, many don't want rules at all, even seemingly basic ones like metering wells.
  — Shaun McKinnon, The Arizona Republic, 16 Sep. 2024
• While many of the streetside parking spaces are metered, Uptown Sedona still offers abundant free parking.
  — Roger Naylor, The Arizona Republic, 18 Oct. 2024
• By 1950 and the advent of nuclear power, some believed that electricity would be too cheap to meter.
  — Chicago Tribune, 16 Mar. 2026
• None is meaningful unless the company can define them, meter them, surface them and enforce them consistently.
  — Rishi Katdare, Forbes.com, 1 July 2026
• One alternative theory is that the Narrows effectively metered the flow of cars during peak hours.
  — Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 Nov. 2025
• Non-technical losses, on the other hand, include theft, metering inaccuracies, and billing fraud.
  — Dianne Plummer, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2025
• Most exciting is the sensation of each of the four wheels digging and grabbing, clawing to put down torque, all metered by fine scripting, virtually no power wasted.
  — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2025
• The ability to meter torque at both the motor itself instantly and accurately at each wheel under all cornering conditions can lead to tremendous gains in handling.
  — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 27 Sep. 2021
• Nuclear power was originally thought to be too cheap to meter, as the expression went, but it’s always turned out to be an expensive way to generate electricity.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 June 2021
• The people meter viewing information is then integrated with the tuning data from each RPD home.
  — Brad Adgate, Forbes, 9 Nov. 2021
• Each cylinder's dose of fuel is then metered very accurately by sequentially firing electronic injectors.
  — David E. Davis Jr., Car and Driver, 1 Mar. 2023
• It is compiled from power plant data reporting and is based on metering at each power plant site and, therefore, does not account for the 7%-8% loss attributed to transmission for delivery to the customer’s meter.
  — Kurt Snibbe, Daily News, 22 Oct. 2025