Sentences with measure
meas·ure
M m - With the exception of Juan, each attained a measure of success.
- It is a measure of their plight that few of them have anywhere to go to.
- While the main goal of any marketing campaign should be lead generation, lead nurturing is also a crucial measure of success.
- We need to take measures to protect ourselves.
- The government warned that police would take tougher measures to contain the trouble.
- He poured himself another generous measure of malt. [+ of]
- They were forced to resort to desperate measures.
- The governor has proposed a number of cost-cutting measures.
- Give the size in metric measure
- The international prototype kilogram is the measure of mass in SI units
- The legislature has passed a measure aimed at protecting consumers.
- The dictionary includes a table of weights and measures.
- A measure of grain
- His work was the measure of all subsequent attempts
- The meter is a measure of length.
- An occasion like this calls for some measure of decorum.
- We must keep it within measure
- They gave him a measure of freedom
- Their actions were motivated in large measure by a desire for revenge.
- She felt equal measures of hope and fear.
- They took measures to prevent his leaving
- To bring in a measure
- In BRIT, use bar
- I measured his strength to be greater than mine
- The ohm measures electrical resistance
- He measured his strength against that of his opponent
- The room measures six feet
- He measured his approach to suit the character of his client
- A quart measure
- Remain within measure
- In large measure
- Take measures to stop him
- To measure one's foe
- To measure one's skill against another's
- A clock measures time
- To measure a speech by the listeners' reactions
- A pole that measures ten feet
- He poured another large measure of whiskey.You must only sell alcoholic drinks in approved measures.Add a small measure of brandy to the glass.
- I continued to measure his progress against the charts in the doctor's office. [VERB noun preposition]
- Measure the length and width of the gap. [VERB noun]
- The house is more than twenty metres long and measures six metres in width. [VERB amount]
- Weights and measures.
- Liquid measure.
- To take the measure of a thing.
- To drink a measure of wine.
- In large measure.
- To live with a measure of enjoyment.
- To know no measure.
- To know no measure.
- The senate passed the new measure.
- To take measures to avert suspicion.
- Mesure is medcynee · þouȝ þow moche ȝerne. Full to the utmost measure of what bliss Human desires can seek or apprehend. It ended up being a bittersweet night for England, full of goals to send the crowd home happy, buoyed by the news that Montenegro and Poland had drawn elsewhere in Group H but also with a measure of regret about what happened to Danny Welbeck and what it means for Roy Hodgson's team going into a much more difficult assignment against Ukraine.
- City were also the victors on that occasion 56 years ago, winning 5-0, but this visit was portrayed as a measure of their progress against the 19-time champions. The villagers paid a tithe of a thousand measures of corn. The fragments shrank by increments of about three kilodaltons (a measure of molecular weight). The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea. (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)the greatest common measure of two or more numberscoal measures; lead measures
- Now tread we a measure! said young Lochinvar. a poem in iambic measure
- The solitary, lumbering trolls of Scandinavian mythology would sometimes be turned to stone by exposure to sunlight. Barack Obama is hoping that several measures announced on June 4th will have a similarly paralysing effect on their modern incarnation, the patent troll.
- But poverty’s scourge is fiercest below $1. 25 (the average of the 15 poorest countries’ own poverty lines, measured in 2005 dollars and adjusted for differences in purchasing power): people below that level live lives that are poor, nasty, brutish and short.
- To measure boundaries.
- I measure that at 10 centimetres.
- To measure out two cups of flour.
- To measure the importance of an issue.
- To measure Corneille against Racine.
- Her sacrifices measure the degree of her love.
- To measure a portion to one's liking.
- To measure one's strength with another's.
- To measure a room with great strides.
- The suffering that they endured was beyond measure.
- In addition to dessert, they served chocolates for good measure.
- During their conversation she was taking his measure as a prospective employee.
- His conclusion is justified in some measure.
- He missed a step in the dark and measured his length at the bottom.
- The producer of the poorly reviewed show decided to measure swords with the critics.