How to pronounce centimetres
Listen to centimetres in real sentences, spoken by real people in public video clips that play here, on YouTongue. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
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“centimetres” in real sentences
63 clips in the index · 8 British · 5 Australian. Clips come from public YouTube videos — parliaments, government agencies and independent channels.
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a few centimetres a year.
The Royal Society · hear it here
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Maybe it was not 30 centimetres or maybe it was 31 centimetres, so we got it
The Royal Institution · hear it here
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at least 50 centimetres over the next century
DCCEEW · hear it here
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Miraculously, the lorry stopped just centimetres before hitting a house.
The Scottish Parliament · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of centimetres. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.