How to use "measure" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "measure" in popular movie and book plots

  • Stone brings the kids to his home, but it explodes due to a Batai security measure left by Lorelei.  - Weapon Zero
  • Stephen is unsuccessful—he takes measure after measure to stop them, but he is never able to eradicate all of them.  - The New Breed (The Outer Limits)
  • Ratios are used instead of absolute concentrations because mass spectrometers usually measure the former rather than the latter.  - Isochron dating
  • This measure is refused by all in the club as the Colonel has a strong standing of honor and credit within the club.  - The Silence (The Twilight Zone)
  • However, Brigitte palms a piece of glass to measure her healing rate.  - Ginger Snaps 2: Unleashed
  • Privately, however, she confides the full measure of her defeat.  - Five Little Pigs
  • He even helps them to measure the detonating fuse and gives them matches, refusing to believe the full horror of what is happening.  - The Fire Raisers (play)
  • Sabriel and Touchstone have married since Sabriel and assumed a measure of control over the Old Kingdom.  - Lirael
  • By the novel's end, Gerald achieves a measure of peace with his past.  - Anglo-Saxon Attitudes
  • Klaus's teacher, mrs Bass, obsesses over the metric system and makes her students measure countless dull objects.  - The Austere Academy
  • There is also active discrimination against heterosexuals, homosexuality being encouraged as a measure against overpopulation.  - The Wanting Seed
  • He eventually finds a measure of success, restoring the family's former estate.  - The Mill on the Floss
  • It is, as it were, a measure of the confidence that God places in us".  - Mrs Craddock
  • She plans to take a flight home, and buy a new car for herself, as a measure of her altruism.  - Autumn Sonata
  • Howard's final measure to restore his heterosexuality is the use of a self-help audio cassette, although that fails as well.  - In & Out (film)
  • During the performance, Maturin elbows Aubrey who is beating the measure "half a beat ahead".  - Master and Commander

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