How to Use millimeter in a Sentence

millimeter

noun
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  • The trunk of a Huon pine grows at a rate of about a millimeter a year.
    — Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2021
  • The club will not move a millimeter from this in the future.
    — Matias Grez, CNN, 17 Feb. 2020
  • At the first millimeter of movement, the car and all of its passengers would be blown to pieces.
    — Nicole Krauss, The Atlantic, 2 Oct. 2020
  • The grout on the floor next to my tub in the bathroom has pulled away, creating a long 1-to-2 millimeter gap.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 30 May 2021
  • The steel armor along its frontal arc is just 70 millimeters thick.
    — David Axe, Forbes, 6 May 2023
  • Each bottle is 187 millimeters, which amounts to about one glass of wine.
    — Nicole Pyles, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Drugs are bought in grams and kilos, and the most common bullet is the 9 millimeter.
    — WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
  • The bladder accounts for about 0.8 to 1 millimeter of that.
    — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
  • The skin under our eyes is less than one millimeter thick.
    — María Quiles, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2024
  • And Karl told me, no, no, not on the mouth, just half a millimeter before touching lips.
    — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 5 July 2021
  • Once a week, Young's team at Scripps uses a truck — with an image scanner on top — to map the face of the cliffs down to the millimeter.
    — David Schechter, Haley Rush, CBS News, 28 Mar. 2023
  • The reason for the extra millimeters is the Galaxy Fold's hinge, which doesn't fold flat.
    — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 24 Jan. 2020
  • The gift, like many in the museum, stands exactly 1,999 millimeters tall, a nod to the year of the handover.
    — Grady McGregor, Fortune, 20 Jan. 2020
  • Even the look, shooting in 35 millimeter and shooting in scope.
    — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
  • How to use: Apply one millimeter two times daily on the scalp where there is hair loss.
    — Sam Peters, ELLE, 31 Jan. 2023
  • Each ramp is also about 287 millimeter wide, which is enough to fit most truck tires.
    — Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2022
  • Visy was struggling to find a way to use glass pieces smaller than 3 millimeters in size.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
  • Most of the time, these sensors track very slow movement, on the order of millimeters or less per year.
    — Rong-Gong Lin Ii, Los Angeles Times, 5 June 2024
  • After a month or so of growing in the nursery, seeds emerge—tiny kelp blades about a millimeter long.
    — Carol Leonetti Dannhauser, Hartford Courant, 27 May 2022
  • The surgeon confirms it: Just a millimeter off and LeMere would've been leaving in a body bag.
    — Sara Netzley, EW.com, 5 Oct. 2021
  • Controllers tried shaking and warming the spacecraft to get the pin to move by just millimeters.
    — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 12 May 2023
  • Just half a millimeter, then, which means it’s thicker than the current iPad Air (6.1mm).
    — David Phelan, Forbes, 20 Apr. 2021
  • The city sees subsidence of about 4 millimeters per year.
    — Caitlin O'Kane, CBS News, 21 Feb. 2024
  • Cops found three spent nine-millimeter bullet shells at the scene, the affidavit said.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 20 May 2022
  • The bullet hit a rib, landing millimeters from his lung.
    — The Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 17 Feb. 2024
  • All in all, the chips have a total volume of less than 1 cubic millimeter.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 11 June 2021
  • The gun used in this - a nine millimeter Glock, which was recovered at this crime scene - was purchased by Mr. James in 2011 in Ohio.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 14 Apr. 2022
  • The little blobs are each less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide.
    — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 4 Dec. 2021
  • Each face of the cube, which is made from aluminum, measures about five millimeters (around 0.2 inches) across.
    — Chris Lau, CNN, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Note that the seats are integrated into the monocoque, which helps reduce the wheelbase by 70 millimeters, and further trims the weight.
    — Jason Barlow, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2024

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