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 | [e-mail], 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
• Then there are terrestrial gamma-ray flashes, or TGF, which are bright enough to see from space and are very fleeting, lasting less than a millisecond.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
• Now, everything is content, baby, and that’s why your favorite (or least favorite) influencer is sitting front row, filming every last millisecond.
  — Hannah Jackson, Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024