Example sentences for: seconds

How can you use “seconds” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Total phone time: 9 minutes and 32 seconds.

  • So, the 2.97 seconds it takes to put on your seat belt is just too long a period to make economic sense.

  • Saddam looked him straight in the eye, hesitated for "long" seconds, and then said, "I only smoke with people in whom I have confidence."

  • In a typical experiment, a subject, lying still with his head surrounded by the magnet, does nothing for thirty seconds, then performs some task for thirty seconds, then lies still for thirty seconds.

  • Tonight's nutty bloopers: A.G. coughs for several consecutive seconds, effectively splitting an infinitive; mistakenly addresses Senate Finance Committee member Don Nickles, R-Okla., as "congressman"; projects only 1.9 percent GDP growth for Calendar 1996.


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