Sentence examples for centimeters a from inspiring English sources
The diameter is eight centimeters (a little over three inches), not eight millimeters.
Deer regrow their antlers, some at the rate of 2 centimeters a day, said to be the fastest rate of organ growth in animals.
For it to become strong enough to form a black hole, the gap would have to be narrowed to 10 to the minus 33 centimeters, a distance called the Planck length -- and that would require a galactic-size accelerator.
Dr. Michael L. Hinni, Mr. McCain's surgeon, said that a circular wound on the left side of Mr. McCain's face from the surgery was six centimeters by six centimeters, a size not previously disclosed.
The bacterium infects and kills Elkhorn coral at a rate of up to 10 centimeters, or nearly four inches, a day — far outpacing the coral's regrowth rate of just 10 centimeters a year.
In 1994, Beijing officials relaxed their no-dog policy to "severely restrict" dogs; in 2003, it was changed again to allow anyone to own a dog, but to limit city dogs to no more than 35 centimeters — a bit less than 14 inches — in height.
Leave about a 1/2 a centimeter of a gap between the two ends of the paperclip.
Breast cancer grows a centimeter a year, I remind myself.
Statistics vary, but the city is again sinking, at roughly a centimeter a year.
I frantically do the math: breast cancer grows about a centimeter a year.
If Mr. Fassbender is too refined to play a bloodthirsty warrior, Mr. West is every centimeter a carnivorous military beast.
