Five nickels in a row will give the length of the decimeter, and two of them will weigh a decagram.
2
From its mass of greenery, huge globular fruit stood out, a decimeter wide and furnished on the outside with creases that assumed a hexangular pattern.
3
A decimeter is one-tenth of that, namely, 3.937 inches; and a decameter 39.37, or ten times the meter, and so on.
4
Lisa measured a couple of decimeters from her top lip with her hand.
5
He was standing only a few decimeters from the rat and realized that he was exactly the same height as she.
1
Each of the two parts of the double-galleried tunnel, one narrow and one wide, measures at most a decimetre in length.
2
Beyond the cotton-wool cylinder wherein ten cocoons are lodged in a row comes an empty space of half a decimetre or more.
3
Each of the two parts of the double-galleried tunnel, one narrow and one wide, measures at most a decimetre (3.9 inches.-Translator'sNote.)
4
I open a reed-stump about two decimetres long by twelve millimetres in diameter.
5
The Leaf-cutter, therefore, uses only the front portion of the Worm's gallery, two decimetres at most.