Kilometre example sentences

He equipped himself with a long, sturdy stick, and then started on his eighteen-kilometre expedition back to his village through the swollen flood waters.Women and girls walk for several kilometres to collect clean water, as you read in Chapter 1 Is it not a serious matter for human dignity? You have studied in Chapter 16 about the increasing scarcity of freshwater due to population growth, pollution, industrial development, mismanagement and other factors.” On December 15 Comet Dutta came closest to the earth — at a distance of 80,000 kilometres.ON 27 October 1999, seven years after his mother's death, Prashant had gone to the block headquarters of Ersama, a small town in coastal Orissa, some eighteen kilometres from his village, to spend the day with a friend.