All 50 Uses of
minute
in
The Da Vinci Code
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- For fifteen minutes, he would survive as his stomach acids seeped into his chest cavity, slowly poisoning him from within.†
Chpt Pro.
- He was trapped, and the doors could not be reopened for at least twenty minutes.†
Chpt Pro.
- Art Buchwald had once boasted he'd seen all three masterpieces in five minutes and fifty-six seconds.†
Chpt 3
- Deux minutes.†
Chpt 3
- Twenty minutes ago he had been asleep in his hotel room.†
Chpt 3
- Perhaps over fifteen or twenty minutes.†
Chpt 6
- Security took fifteen minutes to get here?†
Chpt 6
- We took up positions within fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 6
- As Langdon stood over the body and squinted in the harsh light, he reminded himself to his amazement that Saunière had spent his last minutes of life arranging his own body in this strange fashion.†
Chpt 6
- That's in twenty minutes.†
Chpt 7 *
- Langdon tried to imagine the curator's final minutes trapped alone in the Grand Gallery, knowing he was about to die.†
Chpt 8
- Let's take a break for a few minutes.†
Chpt 11-12
- I think I'd like a few minutes alone.†
Chpt 11-12
- Only minutes ago, Langdon had listened to her phone message, thinking the newly arrived cryptographer must be insane.†
Chpt 11-12
- Langdon needed a minute to process that one.†
Chpt 13-14
- Still, it had been almost ten minutes.†
Chpt 13-14
- In the silence, Sophie stood trembling for what felt like minutes.†
Chpt 15-16
- Bezu Fache will be taking you into custody at any minute.†
Chpt 15-16
- Collet had been trying to reach Sophie now for several minutes.†
Chpt 17-18
- His men would have the truck surrounded within minutes.†
Chpt 17-18
- "I can't imagine," Langdon said, staring at the printout, "how your grandfather created such an intricate anagram in the minutes before he died."†
Chpt 21-22
- I can't get my men back to the perimeter for a few minutes, and I don't want Langdon breaking for an exit.†
Chpt 27-28
- "We lost them for the time being," she said, "but we won't last another five minutes if we stay in this car."†
Chpt 33-34
- Langdon checked his watch 2:59 A.M. The train left in seven minutes and they didn't even have tickets yet.†
Chpt 35-36
- Tonight, Vernet had been awake only six and a half minutes.†
Chpt 43-44
- Five minutes, Vernet told himself.†
Chpt 43-44
- He cursed, gave some quick directions in French, and said he would be up to the lobby in a minute.†
Chpt 43-44
- Give me a minute and I will see what I can do to help you leave the bank undetected.†
Chpt 43-44
- The truck, after an unnerving pause atop the bank ramp, had moved on, snaking left and right for a minute or two, and was now accelerating to what felt like top speed.†
Chpt 47-48
- In about five minutes, we'll be out of the mountains, and service improves.†
Chpt 49-50
- Twenty minutes from here.†
Chpt 51-52
- The Sprawling 185-acre estate of Château Villette was located twenty-five minutes northwest of Paris in the environs of Versailles.†
Chpt 51-52
- A full minute passed.†
Chpt 51-52
- My question won't take a minute.†
Chpt 59-60
- When Langdon had first seen The Little Mermaid, he had actually gasped aloud when he noticed that the painting in Ariel's underwater home was none other than seventeenth-century artist Georges de la Tour's The Penitent Magdalene—a famous homage to the banished Mary Magdalene—fitting decor considering the movie turned out to be a ninety-minute collage of blatant symbolic references to the lost sanctity of Isis, Eve, Pisces the fish goddess, and, repeatedly, Mary Magdalene.†
Chpt 61-62
- He would give them five minutes.†
Chpt 61-62
- They could be over it and have the house surrounded in a matter of minutes.†
Chpt 63-64
- But Captain, you're twenty minutes away!†
Chpt 63-64
- Just give yourself a minute, Robert.†
Chpt 65-66
- Can you have Elizabeth ready in about twenty minutes?†
Chpt 67-68
- After several minutes, as if suddenly sensing his eyes on her, Sophie leaned forward and put her hands on his shoulders, giving him a quick rub.†
Chpt 67-68
- I'll tell you in a minute.†
Chpt 67-68
- I doubt Fache is tracing, but keep it under a minute just in case.†
Chpt 67-68
- It was three minutes later that Teabing heaved a frustrated sigh and shook his head.†
Chpt 71-72
- Fifteen minutes from now.†
Chpt 73-74
- We'll be landing in five minutes.†
Chpt 79-80
- "Give me a minute," he said, hobbling toward the cockpit.†
Chpt 79-80
- After all, they said it would only take a minute.†
Chpt 83-84
- Three minutes later, with the help of his sidearm, he had a full confession, including a description of the bound albino monk.†
Chpt 83-84
- Now, I realize this is an intrusion, but if you could afford me a few more minutes, I have traveled a great distance to scatter ashes amongst these tombs.†
Chpt 85-86
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.