Sentence for minutes | Use minutes in a sentence

Sentences with minutes in them. The sentences below are ordered by length from shorter and easier to longer and more complex. They use minutes in a sentence, providing visitors a sentence for minutes.

  • Five minutes passed. (8)
  • A matter of minutes. (10)
  • Wait a couple of minutes. (10)
  • Again some minutes passed. (12)
  • I swear to strike to her heart in ten minutes! (10)
  • Wait a few minutes, would you? (8)
  • Lennan stayed very few minutes. (8)
  • He was silent for many minutes. (12)
  • In a few minutes, he was asleep. (8)
  • Ten minutes to make the most of! (8)
  • Before five minutes they had decided. (6)
  • Minutes passed, and she did not come. (8)
  • Followed five minutes of acute misery. (8)
  • He came back at the end of a few minutes. (12)
  • And in five minutes Zachary Pearse did come. (8)
  • I cannot be absent longer than two minutes. (10)
  • At the end of ten minutes old Jolyon came in. (8)
  • The great official was silent for several minutes. (7)
  • Five minutes, and they would be down at the turning. (8)
  • During those four minutes you say you remember nothing? (8)
  • Ten minutes later we were in yellow fog, then in brown. (10)
  • I was exposed to view twenty-three minutes, odd seconds. (10)
  • My next two minutes alone with Janet were tempered by it. (10)
  • For some minutes I listened guardedly to his affable talk. (10)
  • She returned, and found that only fifty minutes had passed. (12)
  • His master had fixed his arrival for twenty minutes earlier. (10)
  • I was taught at my school that minutes are not to be wasted. (10)
  • Ten minutes later he and Bertie were seen riding down the drive. (8)
  • He tops me by about a head, and loses his temper every two minutes. (10)
  • For many minutes at a time broad spaces of battle were veiled in smoke. (7)
  • Willoughby was damped by what he comprehended of it for a few minutes. (10)
  • In ten minutes she descended, and found him pacing up and down the hall. (10)
  • Christian left the house fifteen minutes later in a bewildered condition. (12)
  • And then he determined to let the fellow have five minutes alone with him. (10)
  • Just wait about five minutes to let her punish us, before you out with it. (10)
  • But before she had been three minutes in her own room, her mother followed her. (4)
  • Several minutes were spent in an altercation between Edelsheim and Bandelmeyer. (10)
  • He marched on that road to the music of sonorous brass for some drunken minutes. (10)
  • Lady Arpington had a satisfactory two minutes with him before he left the house. (10)
  • The minutes seemed to be taken up alternately by the grey puffs from their mouths. (10)
  • Looking about, he beheld Wilfrid, who implored him to take his place for two minutes. (10)
  • All that I beg is, that you will do me the favour to grant me five minutes in private. (10)
  • A few minutes later Bosinney rose to go, and Soames rose too, to see him off the premises. (8)
  • At the expiration of fifteen minutes by his watch, he struck a knuckle on the library door. (10)
  • Basil spent five minutes in arraigning his wife and convicting her of every folly and fault. (9)
  • For, as a result of those four minutes, ruin, utter and irretrievable, stares him in the face. (8)
  • Only ten minutes ago he had uttered a tirade before the cage of a monkey which seemed unhappy. (8)
  • She burst into tears as she alluded to it, and for a few minutes could not speak another word. (4)
  • In a few minutes he would have to start to catch the only train that would get him home in time. (8)
  • Ten minutes later Gyp, little Gyp, and Ossian emerged from the garden gate for their evening walk. (8)
  • Saying which, Edward shut his teeth, and talked for two or three hot minutes wholly with his fists. (22)
  • Two minutes earlier she would not have thought it; but humiliated pride falls lower than humbleness. (10)
  • In two minutes, however, he relented in his own favour; and muttering something about spruce-beer, walked off. (4)
  • In a few minutes Beppo stepped from the house, and flung himself with his back against the lintel of the doorway. (10)
  • Among other things, he discovered that most of them spent not to exceed fifteen minutes a day on their newspapers. (16)
  • For some minutes Kasteliz spoke in pure Hungarian while Swithin waited, with a forced smile and a fixed look in his eye. (8)
  • The latter became seized with shivers as he supplied the information that it might be a quarter of an hour or twenty minutes. (10)
  • I returned for Modestine, pushed her briskly forward, and, after a sharp ascent of twenty minutes, reached the edge of a plateau. (2)
  • Two or three minutes after eleven, a feeble ring at the bell gained admission for some person: whispering was heard in the passage. (10)
  • Never turning her eyes from the chancel, she remained unconscious of the stir her presence made, during that hour and twenty minutes. (8)
  • For the first five minutes Schwartz Thier found employment for his faculties by staring at the shaky, small-paned windows of the neighbourhood. (10)
  • Many minutes they lasted, those noises of the night, sound-emblems of all the cruelty in the heart of Nature; till at last death appeased that savagery. (8)
  • There seems no reason why the shower should not come five minutes before or five minutes after, unless you suppose an intention to affront you. (2)

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