How to Use centimeter in a Sentence

centimeter

noun
  • Their growth rate is less than one centimeter per year.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 31 Mar. 2026
  • The drain doesn’t drain more than maybe a centimeter an hour.
    — Ivy Scott, Kansas City Star, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Your toe should be half to one centimeter away from the edge of the shoe.
    — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 24 Feb. 2026
  • Put the tip of your finger at least a centimeter deep or more in the soil.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 8 Dec. 2025
  • Put the tip of your finger at least a centimeter deep or more in the soil.
    — Lauren David, Southern Living, 5 Dec. 2024
  • Throw the object a few centimeters in the air.
    — Big Think, 9 Sep. 2025
  • If a ball is over the goal line by few centimeters, a goal must be still awarded.
    — Kevin Baxter, latimes.com, 21 June 2019
  • At 1 centimeter in length, the probes are long enough to reach any spot in a mouse’s brain.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2022
  • Cut each small loaf into ​gnocchetti,​ small pieces of one centimeter.
    — Alisha Prakash, Travel + Leisure, 6 Apr. 2020
  • One bullet missed her eye and the other her brain by mere centimeters.
    — Alyce Collins, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Schramma pinched off some centimeter-long leaves.
    — Quanta Magazine, 4 May 2026
  • Just a few centimeters long, the bronze piece had lost parts of a clasp that once existed.
    — Irene Wright, Miami Herald, 24 June 2024
  • As for the back, the rear diffusor has been widened by two centimeters on each side.
    — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 22 Jan. 2026
  • Then, simply trim your wick to about one centimeter above the top of the cup, and enjoy.
    — Paula Sutton, Vogue, 23 Dec. 2023
  • It should be buried 30 centimeters in the ground next to a bubbling geyser.
    — Claire Volkman, Vogue, 7 Jan. 2025
  • If so, its event horizon would be just under two centimeters across, the size of a grape!
    — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 27 Mar. 2026
  • Photos show the small toy, which measures just a few centimeters.
    — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 23 Feb. 2024
  • By then her cancer had grown to 11 centimeters.
    — Julie Gallant, San Diego Union-Tribune, 4 Mar. 2026
  • At just one or two centimeters across, each plant is the size of a fingernail and has leaves as small as gnats.
    — Nina Foster, JSTOR Daily, 22 Nov. 2024
  • Alpha stands 220 centimeters tall and moves on a wheeled base.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 8 Jan. 2026
  • And then the train passes over them, leaving only like a centimeter to spare.
    — Quanta Magazine, 15 Feb. 2024
  • But sure enough, a yellowish-brown clam about 2 centimeters long rests in the palm of her hand.
    — The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2023
  • Draw a pencil line across the width of each paper strip, about one centimeter from the bottom end.
    — Science Buddies, Scientific American, 14 May 2015
  • Outside, the wind grew angry, while the centimeters between them grew hot and fraught.
    — Ruby Opalka, The Atlantic, 25 Aug. 2024
  • Take the swab and enter it no more than three-fourths of an inch (just over a centimeter) into your nostril.
    — Dallas News, 31 Jan. 2022
  • At the bottom of the big toe joint are two floating bones measuring less than a centimeter.
    — Profootballdoc, sandiegouniontribune.com, 10 Sep. 2017
  • Record the distance in centimeters.
    — Rikkilynn Shields Hannigan, Health, 30 Oct. 2025
  • From there, the mirrors have to move a bit more than a centimeter to reach their final position.
    — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 25 Dec. 2021
  • The jellies range from a centimeter to more than a foot in diameter.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 20 Aug. 2025
  • Within days, the injections helped the mice grow new hairs that are around 1 centimeter long.
    — Aria Bendix, NBC News, 24 June 2023

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