Unit of length

Usage examples of centimetre.

Those Bofors masers will zap anything over fifty centimetres in diameter.

There are also two parallel slots, about a centimetre wide, cut in the walls and running the whole length of the tunnel.

She selected a flat black knife with a grey metal blade about fifteen centimetres long and took it down.

His frame was that of a Caucasian Nordic, topping mine by nearly thirty centimetres, but the face was at odds.

I strained the fingers of my left hand and managed to move them a few centimetres across the floor towards my leg.

Butler calmed and settled, his body sinking into fifteen centimetres of water and coolant.

She cleared the main door with centimetres to spare, climbing quickly into the night sky.

Now two centimetres apart, now one, with the basic tenets of real-space physics stacked high against the odds of their meeting, and the ingenuity of man pushing fearfully in favour of their passing.

Then he risked opening them, and stared through barely-parted lids at the wall a few centimetres in front of his face.

Instead, the creature walked straight to the brink, extended almost half its body over the gulf without any sign of hesitationthough an error of a few centimetres would have been disastrousand gave a brisk shrug.

They formed a cubic pattern, repeated over and over again, less than forty centimetres on either side.

Tom wrote down lists of numbers of centimetres on his pad, but his mind was on autopilot.

The pictures were to be suspended from a pole that would have grooves cut in it at a specific number of centimetres apart, and JT had been asking when anyone would inform him of what he had to do, so that it would not be yet another botched job.

The beam punched a molten hole about a centimetre wide and for a moment it rained sparks backwards into the cabin as the armouring beneath the plastic resisted.

He began walking and the map stayed with him, a little over 30 centimetres from his nose until he backgrounded it.