How to Use millisecond in a Sentence

millisecond

noun
  • In a millisecond the beam past through her and into the hull.
    Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2013
  • Each pod will shoot through the pipes just milliseconds apart.
    Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
  • And honk your horn if the car in front of you hesitates for a millisecond.
    Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
  • The team hopes to stretch the front of the boom wave from a single millisecond out to twenty or thirty.
    Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
  • For now, the title of each video indicates down to the millisecond what time the clips start.
    Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
  • The delay of a few milliseconds between a change in engine speed and a change in the wheel’s speed is gone.
    WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
  • So many thoughts in milliseconds streamed through my head.
    Julia Michaels, Glamour, 19 Dec. 2017
  • As the name implies, these bursts of radio waves last just a millisecond or two.
    Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019
  • Alexander’s feet had moved an inch or two past the goal line in the milliseconds before the PK was taken.
    San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2019
  • When Josh Reddick caught it and threw to first, his throw appeared to beat Judge back by a millisecond.
    Pedro Moura, latimes.com, 17 Oct. 2017
  • Their planning has fallen apart, and the death toll is ramping up by the millisecond.
    Noel Sharkey, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
  • These muscles work together to snap the trap-jaw closed in about half a millisecond, 700 times faster than the blink of an eye.
    Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 1 Sep. 2017
  • In no more than 100 milliseconds, inflators pump up the airbag to the height of a typical front bumper.
    Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2019
  • The number of millisecond pulsars is even less well-known.
    Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
  • In that window, a quarterback might have a millisecond to thread a pass.
    Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2023
  • Playing over Wi-Fi at home reduced the latency down to the 40s and 50s in milliseconds once again.
    Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 30 Oct. 2019
  • But [when it is eaten] raw, the flavor lasts only for a millisecond, and then the heat is just taking off.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2023
  • But [when it is eaten] raw, the flavor only lasts for a millisecond, and then the heat is just taking off.
    Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2023
  • Also, what appears to be a long time span in my life can seem like a millisecond of someone else’s life.
    Vogue, 24 Jan. 2023
  • To break it into discs one, two, and three, someone has to look it up or think an extra millisecond.
    Justin Curto, Vulture, 7 May 2024
  • The whole thing is over in a millisecond, but the effect is devastating.
    Ben Raines | Braines@al.com, AL.com, 16 May 2017
  • Within milliseconds, a hand with a switchblade swoops in and slashes a huge gash in the side of the bag before tearing it apart at its seams.
    Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
  • The leafy bough was followed a millisecond later by a squirrel.
    John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
  • Within a millisecond, a bad guy goes flying off of a speeding truck.
    Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2021
  • For just a millisecond or two of extra reaction time, that's not worth it.
    Jon Martindale, Forbes, 24 May 2021
  • Scott returned to Earth two inches taller and five milliseconds younger, with a smaller heart than Mark.
    Anya Groner, Longreads, 9 June 2017
  • Most of the changes have revolved around the milliseconds between the characters firing their blasters.
    Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
  • El Camino picks up that same millisecond, after a cameo-ghost prologue.
    Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2019
  • Turns out our days are getting longer — but only by milliseconds.
    Lara Williams, The Mercury News, 26 July 2024
  • The six-person jury also saw versions of the video that were slowed to a quarter-speed as well as numerous still frames that were milliseconds apart, showing the moments leading up to when the first shot was fired.
    Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 7 Mar. 2024

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