How to Use millimeter in a Sentence

millimeter

noun

• This is maybe a few square millimeters of it.
  — Nick Canepa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2025
• The length of her body is one-fifth of a millimeter.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• The trunk of a Huon pine grows at a rate of about a millimeter a year.
  — Steve King, Condé Nast Traveler, 19 Aug. 2021
• In some years, the tree grows only a few millimeters.
  — Big Think, 31 Mar. 2026
• If that hair had been a wire instead, would that tenth of a millimeter have moved me?
  — Elena Megalos, Longreads, 31 Mar. 2026
• Most tardigrade species are less than half a millimeter long, around the size of a dust mite.
  — NBC News, 14 Oct. 2019
• The eggs appear like tiny bits of dirt to the naked eye and are about half a millimeter in size.
  — Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 25 Apr. 2025
• His boots were four millimeters over the standard.
  — Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 16 Feb. 2026
• Each shot was exact to the millimeter.
  — James L. Edwards Iii, New York Times, 3 Dec. 2025
• Fletcher was slashed on the left side of his neck just millimeters from his jugular.
  — Lynne Terry, OregonLive.com, 29 May 2017
• The bridges are only a few millimeters wide, and are hollowed out to save weight.
  — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
• At just a millimeter or so across, the xenobots aren’t capable of much yet.
  — Katherine J. Wu, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 Jan. 2020
• The creations go from just millimeters tall to over 80 feet long.
  — Sarah Maiellano, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2018
• The images show the land has sunk about 25 millimeters in the last five years.
  — Wired Staff, WIRED, 13 Mar. 2002
• The steel armor along its frontal arc is just 70 millimeters thick.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 6 May 2023
• Again, not a spoonful of dirt has been removed nor has a millimeter of rail been put in place.
  — Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 26 Apr. 2025
• The patina in some areas is over a millimeter thick.
  — Theo Burman, MSNBC Newsweek, 12 Sep. 2025
• Visy was struggling to find a way to use glass pieces smaller than 3 millimeters in size.
  — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Ars Technica, 25 June 2024
• Each bottle is 187 millimeters, which amounts to about one glass of wine.
  — Nicole Pyles, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Sep. 2023
• 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
• Each ramp is also about 287 millimeter wide, which is enough to fit most truck tires.
  — Talon Homer, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2022
• 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
• Five or six millimeters—about the length of an average adult’s pinky toenail—might not sound like a lot.
  — Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 18 June 2026
• And Karl told me, no, no, not on the mouth, just half a millimeter before touching lips.
  — Nicole Phelps, Vogue, 5 July 2021
• When that stopped, Lefrak withdrew the needle, then pushed it in again, a few millimeters away.
  — oregonlive, 5 Oct. 2019
• Drugs are bought in grams and kilos, and the most common bullet is the 9 millimeter.
  — WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• Although the mole that sits a few millimeters to the right of my mouth has been there for years, I wasn't born with it.
  — Marci Robin, Allure, 13 July 2018
• Even the look, shooting in 35 millimeter and shooting in scope.
  — Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 June 2024
• He was armed with a 9-millimeter handgun that was in plain view on the driver's side floorboard.
  — Natalie Morales, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
• The outsole lugs are about a millimeter high, and portions of the forefoot have no outsole.
  — Outside, 9 Dec. 2025