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How to use centimetre in a sentence

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Our modern metric units, like the gram or the centimetre, originate from their handy description of everyday quantities.
Surf lifesavers removed the 60 centimetre shark by hosing it with fresh water.
If pressure decreases by one millibar, the sea level rises by one centimetre.
Men in polyester trousers, sharply creased, cut to bag out womanishly at the thighs and hemmed too short, exposing a centimetre of sock.
The scale of alteration can vary in extent from less than a centimetre to many tens of kilometres.
Looking in the bottom of my glass, sure enough, I could see about a centimetre of sediment!
The piece of styrofoam washing up to shore contrasts starkly with the shellfish pushing through the sand a centimetre beneath the surface.
Timber can usually soften and take about 100 kilograms, 1,000 newtons per square centimetre.
Eleven centimetre long shoot segments were obtained from internodes of previous year shoots, placed vertically and fitted to plastic tubing.
He had rough stubble on his face and had a shaved head with dark hair about half a centimetre long.
Again and again he did so, a little bit at a time, improving his own record by a centimetre here and a centimetre there.
The architecture of the lower lava sequence is now discussed on the centimetre to metre scale.
The line of tiles was running off at a tangent by a centimetre every metre.
Using a slotted spoon, fill the lined bowl with the fruit to about a centimetre below the top.
Stripping off the costume the wardrobe mistresses had to take in about half a centimetre of the costume since Friday!
The young, which are about a centimetre in length, feed on their reserves for the first few days of life.
Go to your local butcher and ask for two tenderloin steaks to be butterflied to about a one centimetre thickness.
Huge cauliflower soft corals, basket stars and brightly coloured sponges seem to cover almost every centimetre of reef.
Squid come in all sizes, from a centimetre to over a metre in length, and the life cycles of different species vary greatly.
For a high incidence of mail, for example to a company, the space-saving letterbox is also available in a 20 or 30 centimetre height version.
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Examples from Classical Literature
I wave it away for a second, at the same time planting my straw as before, a straw sticking out nearly a centimetre.
The unit of work is that which is required to overcome a resistance of a dyne over a centimetre, and is called an Erg.
You're one metre seventy-eight in your socks, and a centimetre more without them?
The first Krupp anti-aircraft field-piece was a 6.5 centimetre arm.
This consists of a glass box about a centimetre in thickness.
Even when preyer injected a cubic centimetre of 60 per cent.
Henle found they can travel one centimetre in three minutes.
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