Sentence examples for millimetres long from inspiring English sources
It is still just a few millimetres long.
The cut was logged as five millimetres long.
Leaves and dragonflies are millimetres long, the tiny features of a self-portrait remarkably vivid.
The small carpenter bee, Ceratina, is about six millimetres long and of metallic coloration.
The small seed is normally about two millimetres long and nearly two millimetres broad.
The new animal, found in Panama, is only 12.7 millimetres long.
Some muscle fibres are several centimetres long, but most other cells are only a fraction of a millimetre long.
Among the challengers is the fuchsia gall mite, a tiny eight-legged creature just a quarter of a millimetre long.
"But when these teeth – which are only about a millimetre long – are found, they are easily misidentified as algal spores, rather than as parts of animals.
Cracks one millimetre long appear in unprotected rubber after only a few weeks of exposure to a typical outdoor concentration of ozone, about 5 parts per 100 million.
The nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans does not seem very complicated: in fact it looks like a fragment of white cotton thread, about a millimetre long, and almost completely transparent.
