All 35 Uses of
minute
in
The Grapes of Wrath
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- In jus' a minute you can go on your own way.†
Chpt 6
- "Four solemn years I been eatin' right on the minute.†
Chpt 6
- She'll yell breakfast in a minute.†
Chpt 8
- " Ma said, "Kinda hate to, till the las' minute.†
Chpt 10
- "I know perfectly well the las' minute I'd run an' hide like a damn ol' graveyard ghos'.†
Chpt 10
- Jus' listen to me, jus' a minute.†
Chpt 10
- " And as they moved toward the house, he called, "Ma--come here a minute, will ya?" In the kitchen one lantern burned and the plate of pork bones was still piled high.†
Chpt 10
- Forget that baby for a minute.†
Chpt 13
- Minute you cross the line you done a crime.†
Chpt 13
- He died the minute you took 'im off the place.†
Chpt 13
- In a minute she'll start again, an' then 'fore you can git her goin', she peters out again.†
Chpt 13
- "Runs a minute an' then dies?"†
Chpt 13
- Wait a minute.†
Chpt 15 *
- But I ain't a-goin'; or if I do, you ain't never gonna get no sleep, 'em I'll wait an' I'll wait, an' jus' the minute you take sleep in your eyes, I'll slap ya with a stick a stove wood.†
Chpt 16
- Tom said, "Guess I'll go see Ma for a minute, an' then we'll shove along a piece.†
Chpt 16
- She closed her eyes for a minute and then opened them again.†
Chpt 18
- Ma went to the Wilson tent and stayed for ten minutes, and then she came out quietly.†
Chpt 18
- "Could ya come down from your thinkin' an' listen a minute?" Casy turned his head on the stalk-like neck.†
Chpt 20
- "Jus' wait a minute.†
Chpt 22
- Run out ever' ten minutes.†
Chpt 22
- "We was jus' a few minutes late.†
Chpt 24
- Now wait a minute.†
Chpt 26
- Now wait a minute.†
Chpt 26
- Wait a minute.†
Chpt 26
- K. Wait here a minute.†
Chpt 26
- They'll get two an' a half, jus' the minute we're gone.†
Chpt 26
- "But jus' the minute they ain't strikebreakin' they won't get no five.†
Chpt 26
- Hush a minute.†
Chpt 28
- She waited five minutes and then she stood up and crept on up the trail beside the stream.†
Chpt 28
- "Whyn't you lay a minute till it warms?" Ma asked.†
Chpt 28
- Be ready in a minute.†
Chpt 28
- "It was jus' a minute there.†
Chpt 28
- Soaks you in a minute.†
Chpt 28
- The pains were coming close now, twenty minutes apart.†
Chpt 30
- For a minute Rose of Sharon sat still in the whispering barn.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(meaning too common or rare to warrant focus) Much more commonly, minute and minutes refer to a period of time lasting 60 seconds.
Less commonly, they refer to a measurement of angle where 60 minutes make up a single degree, and where a right angle has 90 degrees and a circle has 360 degrees.