Examples of liter in a Sentence
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That estimate is for a person who drinks two liters of water daily for 70 years.
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Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
For a weekend backpacking trip or thru-hike, consider leveling up to 30-50 liters.
—Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2024
The result: roughly 1,500 liters of clean water available any place where municipal or well water supplies are unavailable or unsafe.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2024
Your nose and sinuses make 1 liter (l) of snot per day.1
What Is Snot?
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 7 Apr. 2024
Each liter of water contained an average of 240,000 particles from seven different types of plastics.
—Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
This Riesling Kabinett is delightfully sweet with 91 grams of residual sugar per liter and has only 7.7 percent alcohol by volume.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024
At another the supply was slow and organized: A half-dozen drivers took 20-minute turns for fill-ups of around 6,000 liters, or about 1,600 gallons, just a few steps from a lake depleted to a puddle.
—Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
As for sensitivity levels, a test that detects a range of 20-50 IU/L (international units per liter) will typically capture the surge of LH.
—Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 Mar. 2024
Ian James, Los Angeles Times, 18 Apr. 2024
For a weekend backpacking trip or thru-hike, consider leveling up to 30-50 liters.
—Kevin Brouillard, Travel + Leisure, 17 Apr. 2024
The result: roughly 1,500 liters of clean water available any place where municipal or well water supplies are unavailable or unsafe.
—IEEE Spectrum, 16 Apr. 2024
Your nose and sinuses make 1 liter (l) of snot per day.1
What Is Snot?
—Maggie O'Neill, Health, 7 Apr. 2024
Each liter of water contained an average of 240,000 particles from seven different types of plastics.
—Johnny Dodd, Peoplemag, 5 Apr. 2024
This Riesling Kabinett is delightfully sweet with 91 grams of residual sugar per liter and has only 7.7 percent alcohol by volume.
—Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 4 Apr. 2024
At another the supply was slow and organized: A half-dozen drivers took 20-minute turns for fill-ups of around 6,000 liters, or about 1,600 gallons, just a few steps from a lake depleted to a puddle.
—Damien Cave Atul Loke, New York Times, 31 Mar. 2024
As for sensitivity levels, a test that detects a range of 20-50 IU/L (international units per liter) will typically capture the surge of LH.
—Sarah Bradley, Parents, 30 Mar. 2024
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“Liter.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/liter. Accessed 23 Apr. 2024.
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liter
noun
li·ter
variants
or chiefly British litre
: a metric unit of capacity equal to the volume of one kilogram of water at 4°C (39°F) and at standard atmospheric pressure of 760 millimeters of mercury
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