How to Use nanosecond in a Sentence

nanosecond

noun

• It happens in less than a nanosecond.
• The key part of this date — and the apocalypse — is the fact that the world stood still for a nanosecond.
  — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 27 June 2020
• You’re forced within the first nanosecond to take sides.
  — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
• Cash fired to Stanley, who applied the tag with a nary a nanosecond to spare.
  — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2020
• In a nanosecond, Arenado reached out, caught the ball in his bare right hand and threw it to first base.
  — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 1 May 2017
• The video flies by in a nanosecond, cutting between students from one school to the next.
  — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 19 Nov. 2021
• In some moments this week, that seems like nanoseconds ago, Woodruff said.
  — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2023
• This has to happen at the nanosecond level, since the signals travel at the speed of light.
  — Popular Science, 9 Mar. 2020
• In a prehistoric nanosecond, the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began.
  — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 9 Apr. 2021
• A femtosecond is a millionth of a nanosecond, which in turn is a billionth of a second.
  — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 1 July 2001
• In about 5 percent of cases, the belt just happens to break during one of those few nanoseconds when none of the valves is fully opened.
  — Ray Magliozzi, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
• Being able to trade at the nanosecond level is vital to Nasdaq.
  — John Markoff, New York Times, 29 June 2018
• One can, however, add the second beam splitter at the very last nanosecond.
  — Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2018
• One need only think of the global reach of the #MeToo movement that spread in a matter of virtual nanoseconds.
  — Kathleen Parker | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2018
• Magic Johnson answered his cell on the first ring and in a nanosecond his excitement was at a fever pitch.
  — Broderick Turner, Los Angeles Times, 6 Apr. 2024
• Quickly — in about a nanosecond — four examples came to mind.
  — Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2018
• In less than a week—a nanosecond in the timeline of museum bureaucracy—the Whitney had made the change.
  — Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2017
• At the same time, a conductor must anticipate what comes next and signal the cues a nanosecond ahead of time.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 8 Aug. 2017
• Side characters show up for a nanosecond, then fade from the film’s memory.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
• But in Britten, a nanosecond of hesitation lessens the impact of the music.
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
• When the lipids come into contact with the naked strands of mRNA, electric charge pulls them together in a nanosecond.
  — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021
• So a Maryland employee had a customer shoot a video of him flipping a lid onto a dish in what seems like a nanosecond.
  — Shannon Liao, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
• French scientists believe the world stood still for a nanosecond, causing the divergence of tidal forces.
  — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 28 June 2020
• Still, having the option to choose the best player in the draft — or trade the pick for more assets — is something many executives would take in a nanosecond.
  — Roderick Boone, Charlotte Observer, 11 May 2024
• The gnocchi crackle against the teeth for a nanosecond before dissolving.
  — Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
• And that can change in a nanosecond, like some waterfall that suddenly shifts from one vivid shade to another?
  — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 9 Aug. 2017
• French scientists discovered the world stood still for a nanosecond, causing a diverge of tidal forces.
  — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 27 June 2020
• Her stick flinched right, for a nanosecond, then came back to the left; by that time, Szabados was already confused, and Lamoureux could have just backhanded the shot.
  — Sean Gregory/pyeongchang, Time, 26 Feb. 2018
• Tuckered-out main characters in movies snuggle up under their covers in a bedroom with half the lights still on, and they are conked out in a nanosecond.
  — WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
• The researchers showed that this sound wave persists for some 5 to 20 nanoseconds, depending on the acoustic frequency.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 July 2017

Last Updated: 12 Oct 2024