MINUTE in a Sentence

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For MINUTE, below is one of 402 sentences:
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.

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 Meanings and Examples of MINUTE
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
minute
 n.  the 1/60 of an hour; sixty seconds
 a.  extremely small
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
5  No, I wouldn't hesitate a minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V
6  Then I'll speak my mind right this minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER X
10  Probably her hairy little Zouave was safe in Richmond this very minute.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
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 Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
Example Sentence: (192 in 13 pages)
16  Christine, the play's bullying main character, wouldn't last a minute in the real world.
17  Each chapter is referenced in minute detail.
18  You are in my thoughts every minute of the day, in my dream every hour of the night.
19  Even one minute's lateness would earn a stern rebuke.
20  It is exactly four o'clock, not one minute more nor one minute less.
21  I finally know, I every minute of every second is a person.
22  It takes a minute to have a crush on someone, an hour to like someone and a day to love someone - but it takes a lifetime to forget someone.
23  The last minute goal sent the fans into raptures.
24  The gun on the turret could be swivelled once in a minute.
25  Hang on/Wait a minute - I'll just get my bag.
26  Hang 'on a minute I'm nearly ready.
27  I'll tell him the minute he gets here.
28  Hold on for a minute,I've just got to put on my makeup.
29  A minute is the sixtieth part of hour.
30  It is possible to learn more of a human being in one minute of love than in months of observation.