How to Use minute in a Sentence

minute

1 of 2 noun
Definition of minutenext
Synonyms for minutenext
  • I saw him a minute ago.
  • The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting.
  • My house is just a few minutes from here.
  • One minute it was sunny, the next it was pouring rain.
  • Dinner will be ready in just a few minutes.
  • We waited for several minutes, but no one came to the door.
  • Bake the cake for 25–30 minutes.
  • He’s taught her to see the world in all its minute detail.
    — Margaret Atwood, The Atlantic, 17 Dec. 2023
  • The next sold out in a day as well, and the third run sold out in 20 minutes.
    — Sakeina Syed, Vogue, 10 Nov. 2023
  • The remark appears at the 22:49 minute moment of the video recording.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Turn off the hob and leave the porridge to infuse for about 5 minutes.
    — Anna Bader, Glamour, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Lyles made all five of his shots in the first half as the Kings outscored the Nets by 28 points in Lyles’ 15 first-half minutes.
    — Chris Biderman, Sacramento Bee, 8 Apr. 2024
  • The full sitdown with the legendary Big Boy clocks in at around an hour and 20 minutes.
    — Angel Diaz, Billboard, 15 Mar. 2024
  • Moore jumped up and snatched the ball out of the air for his second touchdown of the half in just over 15 minutes of play.
    — Scott Thompson, Fox News, 6 Oct. 2023
  • The play marked the Chargers’ second goal-line stop in the game’s final minutes.
    — Jeff Miller, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
  • Located in the heart of Paris, the hotel is minutes from the city’s most iconic sites.
    — Emily Longeretta, Variety, 15 Jan. 2024
  • In one minute, the Pirates went on an 8-0 run that brought them within one point of the Lions with just over a minute left in the game.
    — Nathan Canilao, The Mercury News, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Bake for 15 to 23 minutes, or until the edges turn deep golden brown and the centers are firm.
    — Melissa Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Mar. 2024
  • Riders will travel 30 minutes down the line, and then turn back, for a total of 3.4 miles.
    — Marina Johnson, Detroit Free Press, 26 June 2023
  • The track runs about two minutes shorter than the album version.
    — Kory Grow, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Sea bass with a paprika, cayenne, and garlic rub, cooked in the oven for 45 minutes.
    — Jacqueline Tempera, Women's Health, 31 May 2023
  • What took 10 days to accomplish on foot takes all of 15 minutes by air.
    — Jen Murphy, Robb Report, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Rather than back out at the last minute, why not choose to be the more mature sister and simply not argue with her?
    — Annika Kaijo, Arkansas Online, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Some of their clips are only a few minutes long, while others go as long as 3½ hours.
    — Kurt Knutsson, Fox News, 11 Nov. 2023
  • Thompson was scoreless in 15 minutes in the first half, missing all three of his shots.
    — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 2 Mar. 2024
  • Oxford coach Wes Brooks thought for just a minute when asked to reflect on his 2023 baseball team.
    — Ben Thomas | Bthomas@al.com, al, 17 May 2023
  • But the Galaxy came back again, evening the score 14 minutes into the second half on a Yoshida header from the edge of the six-yard box.
    — Kevin Baxter, Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2023
  • Smith would not relent, however, and scored her second goal in the 23rd minute.
    — oregonlive, 24 June 2023
  • Bake until the top is golden brown in spots and the filling is bubbling, about 45 minutes.
    — Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 8 Feb. 2024
  • The show begins 10 minutes before park closing for guests to view.
    — Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Dec. 2023
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minute

2 of 2 adjective
  • There were minute particles of dust in the air.
  • She told him what happened in minute detail.
  • The equipment is able to detect the minutest errors.
  • The test detected minute amounts of contamination.
  • Minute Earth tries to answer that question in the above video.
    — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2017
  • To the Chainsmokers' credit, there were some nifty, minute-long set pieces.
    — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2019
  • The difference between a great game, a good game, and a bad game can be so minute.
    — WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
  • Everything was thought out down to the most minute detail.
    — Steven J. Horowitz, Billboard, 24 Apr. 2018
  • Every aspect of the work, down to the most minute detail of creating a show, held sway.
    — Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2020
  • Minute droplets of fog condense in the tiny holes of the mesh, which glom together into drops large enough to drip down the fibers.
    — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
  • Johnson wants to understand those things to the most minute level.
    — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2020
  • They're found in very minute concentrations, down to the parts per trillion.
    — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2022
  • The fumes, an effect of off-gassing (the emission of minute amounts of volatile organic compounds), will go away in a few days.
    — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • This is how minute the differences from one house to the other can feel throughout.
    — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
  • Sharks can smell minute quantities of blood over long distances, which helps them find prey.
    — Matthew Savoca, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2016
  • The kind of faithful customers who knew the menu by heart, who knew when any alterations were made to a dish, no matter how minute.
    — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
  • Among the other items seen at the site was a glass globe, possibly part of a minute glass timepiece, and fragments of wood believed to be from a cask.
    — al, 28 Feb. 2022
  • Hence the slow deliberation of the narratives and the minute internal details of the workings of a mind.
    — Hermione Lee, The New York Review of Books, 6 Oct. 2020
  • Scientists have found that even minute amounts of many of the chemicals can be dangerous.
    — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2021
  • Breguet employs an in-house acoustician whose job is to ensure the perfect pitch on its minute repeaters.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023
  • According to legend, Hill was interested in the most minute details, right down to what type of soap was stocked in the hotels.
    — Justin Franz, The Know, 1 Sep. 2019
  • Dying, that most worrisome thing, occupies less head space than the most minute things.
    — Geoff Dyer, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
  • There’s a very, very minute number of people explicitly trying to vote in two states.
    — Gray Rohrer, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 June 2017
  • That’s crucial when multi-minute exposures could risk his life.
    — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2019
  • But Spears, with his minute calibrations of feyness and fierceness, holds the whole thing together.
    — Jesse Green, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2023
  • Currently there is a 68-page playbook laying that all out to the most minute detail according to reports.
    — Todd Rosiak, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 26 May 2020
  • There are minute little fluctuations in each instance of time.
    — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 July 2021
  • No longer on a minute restriction and with the Suns not having a deep bench, Durant will likely be called upon to go 40-plus minutes in the playoffs and play several roles in the process.
    — Duane Rankin, The Arizona Republic, 10 Apr. 2023
  • The sweetener, tagatose, is in fact a sugar that occurs naturally, in minute quantities, in milk and beets.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • On the other hand, a person with hyperthymesia can recall minute details of their personal life.
    — Kelly Santana Banks, Discover Magazine, 16 Apr. 2023

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