How to Use minute in a Sentence

minute

1 of 2 noun

• 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 | [e-mail], 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
• But the chance of survival decreases by 10 percent for every minute that passes without any CPR at all.
  — Helen Ouyang, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2024

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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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