If you give these French chauffeurs an inch they'll take a kilometre.
That is one of the five kilometre posts; and you will find them all the way to the Red Sea.
Without bothering with all these decimals, a kilometre is about five-eighths of a mile.
Molne is a kilometre long and rather more than half as wide.
He knows that there is a triple row of tents, a quarter of a kilometre apart.
We entered the sunny woods about a quarter of a kilometre from where we left Durand.
A kilometre is 0.621 or nearly five-eighths of a statute mile.
There is a hill half a kilometre from the Unstrut, but it is under the fire of the enemy.
My guide and I trudged along in silence for almost a kilometre.
The old man did not know, and so I mentioned that the fifty-five kilometre post was by the quay at Alcudia Port.
kilometer A unit of length in the metric system equal to 1,000 meters (0.62 mile). See Table at measurement. |
In the metric system, one thousand meters, or about five-eighths of a mile.