MINUTES in a Sentence

Learn MINUTES from example sentences; some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

402 example sentences for MINUTES, such as:

1. I shall follow in a few minutes.
2. The clock is five minutes behind.
3. But now the ten minutes drew to an end.
4. He will probably be here in a few minutes.
5. Within minutes the whole house was ablaze.

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 Meanings and Examples of MINUTES
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
minutes
 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  He will probably be here in a few minutes.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
2  The greeting between the lovers was warm, but brief, for minutes were precious, and there was much to be done.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE
3  When he finished we sat for some minutes in a stillness which was only broken by the scratching of Lestrade's pencil as he gave the finishing touches to his shorthand account.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER VI. A CONTINUATION OF THE REMINISCENCES OF JOHN W...
4  For the first few minutes the animals could hardly believe in their good fortune.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
5  I shall follow in a few minutes.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter II
6  He gave his orders quickly, and in a couple of minutes every animal was at his post.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter IV
7  But it was some minutes before they could fully take it in.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VII
8  After a few minutes the men were seen to be running in all directions.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
9  It went on for five minutes without stopping.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter X
10  The gilt hands of the stable clock pointed inflexibly at two minutes to the hour.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
11  Colonel Mayhew did not dispute the producer's right to skip two hundred years in less than fifteen minutes.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
12  Mr. Utterson had been some minutes at his post, when he was aware of an odd, light footstep drawing near.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER SEARCH FOR MR. HYDE
13  But now the ten minutes drew to an end.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT
14  He walked fast, hunted by his fears, chattering to himself, skulking through the less-frequented thoroughfares, counting the minutes that still divided him from midnight.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
15  She was still doing this, five minutes afterwards.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (192 in 13 pages)
16  As for me, if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
17  Try to do fifteen minutes of gentle exercise every day.
18  We've set a time limit of ten minutes for each child's turn on the trampoline.
19  Employers usually decide within five minutes whether someone is suitable for the job.
20  The video was seven minutes of high camp and melodrama.
21  If you could wait two minutes, I'm just going to slip into a smarter dress.
22  Afterwards he spent five minutes with the President of whom he is an unashamed admirer.
23  Within minutes of being introduced they were chatting away like old friends.
24  Within minutes the whole building was blazing.
25  Within minutes the whole house was ablaze.
26  The ambulance arrived within minutes of the call being made.
27  The clock is five minutes behind.
28  She gave me the minutes of the meeting to read and check.
29  We live ten minutes from the city centre by bus.
30  Our coach was caught in a traffic jam and got to Heathrow forty minutes late.