However, these measure words may not always be used in informal conversation.

The measured words told him he was right in his assessment of her motives.

The 100-day benchmark is when I'll measure words versus action.

He was quite still for a moment, and then said with slow measured words: "A very large bribe."

No one, however, has accused her of measuring words.

Water, Ivor was thinking, as the measured words flowed over him.

I spoke in the cold, measured words of homicidal rage.

With just five games remaining, there were merely grim smiles and measured words.

Harlan was listening in growing absorption to her measured words.

In these examples, drops and pails function as measure words.

How do you do, he said, his measured words sounding formal.

They remained unimpressed by either the measured words or the frown.

When counted, nouns must also be accompanied by the appropriate measure word.

His evenly measured words and debating team captain's gestures remain pretty much the same.

"Almost everything that reacts strongly to the laser looks the same," I told him in slow, measured words.

The cardinals for three and four have alternatives forms in front of some measure words:

"We went to the stretch of road where it happened," he said in harsh, measured words, like incisions.

Some of the native numbers take a different form in front of measure words:

When counted, nouns take one of a small set of measure words.

His measured words provided the world of sport with one of its most poignant moments.

No, that would be the sort of behavior that, in measured words, he decries.

In measured words I said, "It was a situation of your making, darling.

He knows, too, Uhura realised, hearing the intensity behind her former captain's measured words.

A few measure words can also be reduplicated to indicate "one or the other":

The calm, measured words chilled me to the marrow.