minim
Example Sentences
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The relation a lived life bears to the black marks on the page is more akin to the way musicians turn minims and crotchets into the sublime craziness, of, say, Beethoven’s Grosse Fuge.
From The Guardian
I vaguely wondered how I might annotate it on a musical stave – a run of semiquavers, a minim’s pause, and triplets: presto agitato!
From The Guardian
The patrol says the minim age for operating a motorcycle in North Dakota is 14.
From Washington Times
Orth injected ten minims of peritoneal fluid from a woman dead of puerperal fever into the abdomen of a rabbit.
From Project Gutenberg
He, according to "Wegeler's Notizen," gives it with a minim—I with a crotchet; but neither of these can, to my mind, be made to suit the character of the movement.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
