How to Use millimeter in a Sentence

millimeter

noun

• 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
• The bladder accounts for about 0.8 to 1 millimeter of that.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 10 Nov. 2022
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Controllers tried shaking and warming the spacecraft to get the pin to move by just millimeters.
  — Marcia Dunn, ajc, 12 May 2023
• 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
• 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 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
• Fairy lights and mini lights often range from around 5.5 to 22 millimeters.
  — Gabriel Morgan, Better Homes & Gardens, 4 Aug. 2023
• And despite all that cushioning, the heel-to-toe drop is a modest 5 millimeters.
  — Nathan Borchelt, Travel + Leisure, 25 Apr. 2023
• As more of the polymer is brushed on, the tube builds up and out, like the structure of an icicle or a stalactite, adding millimeters to even the shortest of hairs.
  — elle.com, 20 Apr. 2023
• Regan allegedly pulled out a 9 millimeter gun from her waistband, which Stiles shoved out of the way.
  — Cristian Santana, NBC News, 29 July 2023
• The older camera hardware means the bar needs to measure just a single millimeter in height.
  — Ron Amadeo, Ars Technica, 21 July 2022
• When all that land ice melts, its flows into the ocean, raising sea levels by about three-quarters of a millimeter per year.
  — Sarah Kaplan, Washington Post, 29 Aug. 2023
• The focus of the first visit is to make room for the laminates in your mouth, so the tooth structure is slightly reduced by less than one millimeter.
  — Brooklyn White, Essence, 30 Apr. 2022
• Lower-drop shoes have a difference of around 3-4 millimeters, and zero-drop models have the same stack height under the heel and toe.
  — Maggie Slepian, Travel + Leisure, 7 Feb. 2024
• Here, even seemingly small changes to sea levels — a few millimeters per year — can waterlog coasts and erode the shores.
  — Denise Chow, NBC News, 7 May 2023
• Every millimeter of its three-mile debris field was mapped in minute detail, the press statement said.
  — Niamh Kennedy, CNN, 17 May 2023
• That made every millimeter of space and milligram of weight matter.
  — Emma Roth, The Verge, 13 Sep. 2023
• There should be approximately 5 millimeters of space between your toes and the front of the shoe and your heel and the back of the shoe; while the top strap should be snug without being too tight.
  — Jessica MacDonald, Travel + Leisure, 24 Oct. 2023
• Some 19 percent of the total had a more pronounced scleral show, a millimeter or more.
  — Matt Hrodey, Discover Magazine, 27 Mar. 2023
• The other one is shaped like a ball, with a diameter of about 3 inches (80 millimeters).
  — Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2024
• This leather Fossil watch is a versatile and stylish option with a 22 millimeter band.
  — Brandi Fuller, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Apr. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024