the amount of water collected is measured in pints

The square measured approximately two inches from side to side.

he will be measured for his team blazer next week

While his mom measured out the ingredients, it became our job to stir; he would stir, and then hand it to me for my turn.

It's very hard for me to measure the success of that.

she did not need to measure herself against some ideal

I'm afraid we didn't measure up to the standards they set

Alice looked up at me and measured me up in her vision.

we must measure twenty miles today

children were evacuated as a precautionary measure

the Senate passed the measure by a 48–30 vote

a furlong is an obsolete measure of length

the dimensions were in imperial measure

Don't let the late-night munchies make you pay £1.50 for a Mars bar or £6 for a single measure of spirits.

gifts have included silver measures from a whisky company

most schools had only metric measures available

By the late 70s he had achieved a measure of fame.

his resignation is a measure of how angry he is

The golden measure of poetry does not yet exist, only the rhythm of the maracas, the exact sound of the kettledrum.

measures of two or three syllables are more frequent in English prose

The final presto measures will leave you breathless.

The birds twitter, the horn calls back, the mountain folk dance a droll measure, and all's right with the Alpine world.