Examples of centimetre

• The shelves are three centimetres thick.

• There is a ten centimetre gap between the table and the wall.

• I need the measurements for the curtains in centimetres.

• It was not until Thursday night, however, that the Germans brought their famous forty-two- centimetre guns into action. 

• Several species are common growing upon the bottom of ponds and slow streams, and range in size from a few centimetres to a metre or more in height. 

• She had had in her body one wound of ten centimetres in size. 

• The sterile branches grow to a height of forty to fifty centimetres, and from their bushy form the popular name of the plant, "horse-tail," is taken. 

• They vary from a few centimetres to half a metre in height.