centimetre
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“In the pole vault, you can just go one centimetre at a time.”
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025
In February 2020, a 20-year-old Armand Duplantis - ‘Mondo’ as he’s more commonly known - broke Lavillenie’s record by one centimetre.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025
"If we don't have the orders, we don't move. Even if there's one centimetre of water, we don't intervene. It's frustrating," said his union colleague, Marc Alegrè.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2025
"Every centimetre of sea-level rise exposes another 2 million people to annual flooding somewhere on our planet," said Prof Shepherd.
From BBC • Feb. 19, 2025
Washington is the capital of the United States of America, or 1 centimetre equals approximately 0.39 inches.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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