How to Use millimeter in a Sentence

millimeter

noun

• The trunk of a Huon pine grows at a rate of about a millimeter a year.
  — Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2021
• 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
• 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
• The weapon and a 9 millimeter shell casing were located near the entrance to the building where Lazare had fled, the report said.
  — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2023
• Candice Miller is 42 and clinging to the millimeter of volume that held up her smile lines and cheekbones in her 30s.
  — Rachel Strugatz, New York Times, 3 Jan. 2024
• Some of the holes are less than 10 millimeters in width, while others are slightly larger.
  — Alexander Cardia, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Daniel Robert, University of Bristol Electrostatic forces act on a scale of millimeters and centimeters, but their collective impact could be much larger.
  — quantamagazine.org, 30 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 4 Nov 2024