All 34 Uses of
minute
in
The Catcher in the Rye
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- The minute I went in, I was sort of sorry I'd come.†
Chpt 2
- It's boring to do that every two minutes.†
Chpt 2
- I thought about it for a minute.†
Chpt 2
- Boy, I couldn't've sat there another ten minutes to save my life.†
Chpt 2
- I will, in a minute.†
Chpt 4 *
- One minute he'd be giving it to her in his cousin's Buick, the next minute he'd be giving it to her under some boardwalk.†
Chpt 5
- One minute he'd be giving it to her in his cousin's Buick, the next minute he'd be giving it to her under some boardwalk.†
Chpt 5
- "Coupla minutes," he said.†
Chpt 6
- A couple of minutes later, he was snoring like mad.†
Chpt 7
- It only took me about two minutes.†
Chpt 7
- I was quite lucky when I got to the station, because I only had to wait about ten minutes for a train.†
Chpt 8
- Right that minute, the conductor came around for old Mrs. Morrow's ticket, and it gave me a chance to quit shooting it.†
Chpt 8
- They can take it out in about two minutes.†
Chpt 8
- I came out of the booth, after about twenty minutes or so, and got my bags and walked over to that tunnel where the cabs are and got a cab.†
Chpt 9
- She just this minute closed her eyes and all.†
Chpt 9
- And the whole three of them kept looking all around the goddam room, like as if they expected a flock of goddam movie stars to come in any minute.†
Chpt 10
- I almost was once in a movie short, but I changed my mind at the last minute.†
Chpt 11
- I didn't say anything for about a minute.†
Chpt 12
- Holden, you're getting handsomer by the minute.†
Chpt 12
- Then I probably would've just stood there for about five minutes.†
Chpt 13
- I'll send a girl up in about fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 13
- I keep worrying about whether he's going to do something phony every minute.†
Chpt 16
- The funny part is, I felt like marrying her the minute I saw her.†
Chpt 17
- I told her no, but she was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact.†
Chpt 17
- I even thought for a minute that he was going to get in the goddam cab with us when the show was over, because he walked about two blocks with us, but he had to meet a bunch of phonies for cocktails, he said.†
Chpt 17
- One minute you scream at me, and the next you—†
Chpt 17
- The first thing he said when he sat down was that he could only stay a couple of minutes.†
Chpt 19
- Boy, you have to watch her every minute.†
Chpt 21
- They can teach you in about two minutes," I said.†
Chpt 22
- I waited a couple of minutes.†
Chpt 23
- Listen to me a minute now ….†
Chpt 24
- You can't afford to lose a minute.†
Chpt 24
- It was about the worst thing I could've done, because the minute I started to laugh I thought I was going to vomit.†
Chpt 25
- I just stood there for a couple of minutes.†
Chpt 25
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.