Five nickels in a row will give the length of the decimeter, and two of them will weigh a decagram.
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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.
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A decimeter is one-tenth of that, namely, 3.937 inches; and a decameter 39.37, or ten times the meter, and so on.
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Lisa measured a couple of decimeters from her top lip with her hand.
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He was standing only a few decimeters from the rat and realized that he was exactly the same height as she.
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The second subgenus gave us some Didactylus specimens three to four decimeters long, streaked with yellow, their heads having a phantasmagoric appearance.