How to Use microsecond in a Sentence

microsecond

noun

• The slam to the bruise on my arm and the slap to the other one on my cheek brought the lesson home in a microsecond.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017
• The next step in the build required Keegan to look down for just a microsecond.
  — August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
• In the very first microseconds of the Big Bang, something strange happened.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• Once this whole process takes place — in a matter of microseconds — the ad appears.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2019
• The charge storage in the capacitor is volatile, though, and will be lost in a matter of microseconds.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 June 2018
• Lasers need to fix on a target to burn them, but HPM pulses are shorter than one microsecond.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2019
• The full snaps were completed in just 300 microseconds.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2023
• When all of that was applied, the researchers found that their qubit system was stable for at least 36 microseconds.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2018
• In the next microsecond, the cop, his eyes burning with fear, pulled and pointed his M9 Berretta two inches from my forehead.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2020
• As a result of these issues, the sort of qubit that the researchers in this work used typically lasts about five microseconds.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2018
• The shift of mass would lengthen days by 0.06 microsecond, scientists said.
  — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2010
• In a Quake or Doom game, everything has to be perfect—every microsecond.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2019
• Otherwise that processing would have to happen in the brain, at a cost of precious microseconds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2021
• In the first movement, Denk at times goosed the beat by a few microseconds, not enough to sound careless, but just enough to create urgency or excitement.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2019
• Blain raced to Schriever in his Ford pickup and found that the constellation’s timing was off by about 13 microseconds.
  — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 June 2018
• At the moment, that happens after about ten microseconds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
• Within a fraction of a microsecond, the electron and the positron collide and annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
• Some people can make unimaginable fortunes in microseconds, while others still scratch a living out of the dry ground.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2018
• If anything, that fade better happen and that silence better be a microsecond before the next joint.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 June 2023
• Every finger flick, every hip thrust, every hair flip was choreographed to the microsecond.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Then his long, off-balance throw across the diamond hit the first baseman’s glove, improbably, a microsecond before Lee May could reach the bag.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• Do gridiron fans truly love the fact that only a few microseconds of actual action are packed into each hour.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
• The intense laser pulse lasted just a few microseconds, but created a brilliant flash and a loud bang, as though the leather had been hit by an explosive projectile.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 14 Nov. 2018
• At the time, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the change would address the head start of a few microseconds that can amount to a market advantage.
  — Eric Morath, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
• Push it a microsecond earlier or later, and the results are different.
  — Nick Sortal, miamiherald, 26 Dec. 2017
• With months of Cray time, Kollman and Duan followed their little protein for a billion femtoseconds – which is just one microsecond.
  — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 1 July 2001
• And that's a problem, because the typical lifetime of a qubit stored in this memory is 70 microseconds, much shorter than the entanglement process.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 12 Feb. 2020
• One room’s walls, ceiling and floor are all aluminum, creating a Faraday cage that contains two transmitters, each of which can produce enough power to run a small town for a microsecond.
  — The Arizona Republic, 28 Mar. 2023
• Because in cyberspace, of course the decisions are made in microseconds that human beings can’t complicate.
  — Eric Johnson, Vox, 11 June 2019
• The company made investments that let clients send orders with the least possible delay by moving servers closer to exchanges and using wires that shaved microseconds off the process.
  — Hugh Son, Bloomberg.com, 5 Apr. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024