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
• The club will not move a millimeter from this in the future.
  — Matias Grez, CNN, 17 Feb. 2020
• Most tardigrade species are less than half a millimeter long, around the size of a dust mite.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2019
• 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
• At just a millimeter or so across, the xenobots aren’t capable of much yet.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
• 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
• The agency said the storm could dump up to 300 millimeters (1 foot) of rain in central Japan by Tuesday evening.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2019
• 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
• And its millimeter-wave variant has come off looking by far the worst.
  — Rob Pegoraro, Ars Technica, 4 Dec. 2019
• More than 100 layers of voxels can be stored on a sheet of glass 2 millimeters thick.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 4 Nov. 2019
• 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
• The aluminum skin wrapped around an airframe is typically around a millimeter thick.
  — Ryan Erik King / Jalopnik, Quartz, 21 Oct. 2024
• Pitt’s pilot, Phillip McKenzie, has two motor arrays implanted in his brain, each the size of a pencil eraser, with 100 electrode tips that go a millimeter and a half into the brain.
  — Dana MacKenzie, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 22 Dec 2024