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View definitions for minute

minute

adjective as in unimportant

adjective as in exact, precise, detailed

noun as in brief time period

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Example Sentences

Whatever happened overtook them both within a minute or so of that altitude change request, and they were never heard from again.

“The play contains one five minute scene about James Hewitt,” Conway says.

I did a ten minute scene in his class: the guy who had gangrene in his leg in The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Could you talk a minute about the notion of being an unreliable narrator?

“The beginning of that piece is one minute of cellos and violas,” he says.

After a minute's pause, while he stood painfully silent, she resumed in great emotion.

I assure you, no matter how beautifully we play any piece, the minute Liszt plays it, you would scarcely recognize it!

By the time I had done my toilette there was a tap at the door, and in another minute I was in the salle--manger.

The remaining one struggled for another half-minute, and flared up in one last, desperate effort.

Words are often everywhere as the minute-hands of the soul, more important than even the hour-hands of action.

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On this page you'll find 199 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to minute, such as: infinitesimal, microscopic, minimal, minuscule, tiny, and diminutive.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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