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.
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Animal Farm by George Orwell
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 Meanings and Examples of MINUTE
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In II
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.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
3  Tis ashamed of you I am this minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II
4  And I won't be keeping you but one minute by the clock.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  No, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Then I'll speak my mind right this minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
8  "You all must stand by me and not leave me alone with him for one minute," cried Scarlett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
9  She wished she were dead, this very minute, then everyone would be sorry they had been so hateful.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Probably her hairy little Zouave was safe in Richmond this very minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
11  Why, right this minute he might be dead and she would not know it until tomorrow, or perhaps a week from tomorrow.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
12  They're two sizes too small and they're killing me this minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
13  So Aunt Pitty had her party, and, at the last minute, a guest she did not expect, or desire, arrived.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVII
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
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.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitchell
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
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.