MINUTE in a Sentence
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402 example sentences for MINUTE, such as:
1. There's one born every minute.
2. Only a minute amount is needed.
3. Hold the baby a minute , please.
4. No, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
5. Tis ashamed of you I am this minute.
2. Only a minute amount is needed.
3. Hold the baby a minute , please.
4. No, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
5. Tis ashamed of you I am this minute.
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Meanings and Examples of MINUTE
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minute
n. a unit of time equal to 60 seconds or 1/60th of an hour
n. a unit of angular distance equal to a 60th of a degree
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1 "Hold on a minute while I unhitch the colt," Denis called to her, springing toward the shed.
2 Silence answered; but in a minute or two he caught a sound on the stairs and saw a line of light about the door-frame, as he had seen it the night before.
3 Tis ashamed of you I am this minute.
4 And I won't be keeping you but one minute by the clock.
5 No, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
6 Then I'll speak my mind right this minute.
7 We ought to have three convalescents in our house this minute, like everybody else, and some of the soldiers out to dinner every Sunday.
8 "You all must stand by me and not leave me alone with him for one minute," cried Scarlett.
9 She wished she were dead, this very minute, then everyone would be sorry they had been so hateful.
10 Probably her hairy little Zouave was safe in Richmond this very minute.
11 Why, right this minute he might be dead and she would not know it until tomorrow, or perhaps a week from tomorrow.
12 They're two sizes too small and they're killing me this minute.
13 So Aunt Pitty had her party, and, at the last minute, a guest she did not expect, or desire, arrived.
14 Secretly she was just as frightened as he was, but it angered her to be reminded of it every minute by his tense, drawn face.
15 It wasn't possible that she, Scarlett O'Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute.
Example Sentence: (192 in 13 pages)
1 It's only fair to add that they were not told about the problem until the last minute.
2 Stir-fry the chicken for one minute, then add the vegetables.
3 My keys were here a minute ago but now they've vanished.
4 I don't suppose for a minute that he'll agree.
5 In stories the doomed hero is usually saved at the last minute by some stroke of fortune, but almost always his sense of values is changed.
6 Only a minute amount is needed.
7 Cathy braced herself to see Matthew, who she expected to arrive at any minute.
8 Hold the baby a minute , please.
9 I can meet a person in a minute, like a person in an hour and lovea person in a day, but it will take me a whole life to forgetyou.
10 He'd telephoned with some phoney excuse she didn't believe for a minute.
11 The driver promised to drive me to the railway station, yet he begged off at the last minute.
12 Young mothers talk a mile a minute over their babies.
13 The weather there can be a bit unpredictable - one minute it's blue skies and the next minute it's pouring down.
14 There's one born every minute.
15 There's a sense of foreboding in the capital, as if fighting might at any minute break out.