All 48 Uses of
minute
in
Anne Frank, the Diary of a Young Girl
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Is it all right if I come by and pick you up in about ten minutes "Yes, that's fine.†
Chpt 42-07
- I worked hard today and they praised me, only to start picking on me again five minutes later.†
Chpt 42-07
- I miss her every minute of the day, and no one knows how often I think of her; whenever I do, my eyes fill with tears.†
Chpt 42-07
- Daddy's a sweetheart; he may get mad at me, but it never lasts longer than five minutes.†
Chpt 42-08
- If he doesn't apologize this minute, he'll have to sleep in the loft.†
Chpt 42-09
- When we were still living at home, Mother used to advise him to put a gramophone in front of the receiver, one that would repeat every three minutes, "Yes, Mr. Dreher" and "No, Mr. Dreher," since the old man never understood a word of Father's lengthy replies anyway.†
Chpt 42-09
- Five minutes later he flung them to the floor.†
Chpt 42-09 *
- After working for about fifteen minutes, he laid his hammer and some other tools on our bookcase (or so we thought!†
Chpt 42-10
- Still, the men ventured forth, and ten minutes later we were able to put away the candles.†
Chpt 42-10
- Margot got madder by the minute, and Mother butted in: "Margot was reading that book; give it back to her."†
Chpt 42-11
- And if I'm really lucky, Mrs. van D. calls me to account five minutes later and lays down the law as well!†
Chpt 42-11
- Since candles are in short supply, we lit them for only ten minutes, but as long as we sing the song, that doesn't matter.†
Chpt 42-12
- After a lengthy examination (lengthy as far as Mrs. van D. was concerned, since it actually took no longer than two minutes), Dussel began to scrape out a cavity.†
Chpt 42-12
- He's partic ularly infuriating on Sundays, when he switches on the light at the crack of dawn to exercise for ten minutes.†
Chpt 42-12
- Mother, who always comes to Margot's defense, said in a loud voice, "I can't stand that stupid chatter of yours a minute longer."†
Chpt 43-02
- A minute or two later Mrs. van Daan came up from where she'd been listening to the radio and told us that Pim had asked her to turn it off and tiptoe upstairs.†
Chpt 43-03
- Five minutes later Peter and Pim, the color drained from their faces, appeared again to relate their experiences.†
Chpt 43-03
- The ladies (including Margot and me) waited in suspense until the men returned five minutes later and reported that there was no sign of any activity in the building.†
Chpt 43-03
- I expected the room to burst into flames any minute.†
Chpt 43-05
- Less than fifteen minutes later the shooting started again.†
Chpt 43-05
- None too soon, it seems, for less than five minutes later the guns were booming so loudly that we went and stood in the hall.†
Chpt 43-07
- Nothing happened, however, and forty-five minutes later the all clear was sounded.†
Chpt 43-07
- For the next fifteen minutes, at least, the house is filled with the creaking of beds and the sigh of broken springs, and then, provided our upstairs neighbors aren't having a marital spat in bed, all is quiet.†
Chpt 43-08
- I hear him shuffiing back and forth for ten whole minutes, the rustle of paper (from the food he's tucking away in his cupboard) and the bed being made up.†
Chpt 43-08
- A certain somebody lies awake for about fifteen minutes, listening to the sounds of the night.†
Chpt 43-08
- After five minutes of perfect quiet, the same sequence repeats itself three more times, after which he's presumably lulled himself back to sleep for a while.†
Chpt 43-08
- But I don't look at him long, because the time whizzes by and before you know it, it'll be 4 P.M. and the pedantic Dr. Dussel will be standing with the clock in his hand because I'm one minute ,late clearing off the table.†
Chpt 43-08
- The Dutch broadcast from England began at eight-fifteen with the news: "Listeners, an hour and fifteen minutes ago, just as I finished writing my daily report, we received the wonderful news of Italy's capitulation.†
Chpt 43-09
- Less than five minutes later he was back, and he sneaked up the stairs like a thief to visit us.†
Chpt 43-09
- It took him fifteen minutes to negotiate the stairs, but he wound up safely in the office after having entered from the outside.†
Chpt 43-09
- One minute I'm longing for peace and quiet, and the next for a little fun.†
Chpt 44-02
- Mother fell silent, and less than a minute later I was obliged to kiss her good-night.†
Chpt 44-02
- I thanked him, went upstairs and spent at least ten minutes searching around in the barrel for the smallest potatoes.†
Chpt 44-02
- It's not that he cries or gets sentimental, not at all, but he does spend a quarter of an hour — an entire fifteen minutes -rocking from his toes to his heels.†
Chpt 44-02
- He climbed the ladder to the loft, and I followed; during the fifteen minutes he was chopping wood, we didn't say a word either.†
Chpt 44-02
- I managed to get hold of Peter this afternoon, and we talked for at least forty-five minutes.†
Chpt 44-03
- He's told me a bit about the past, about his parents and about himself, but it's not enough, and every five minutes I wonder why I find myself longing for more.†
Chpt 44-03
- What's going on, what makes him keep me at arm's length one minute and rush back to my side the next?†
Chpt 44-03
- People don't dare leave the house for even five minutes, since they're liable to come back and find all their belongings gone.†
Chpt 44-03
- I held back my tears when I was with Peter, laughed uproariously with the van Daans as we drank lemon punch and was cheerful and excited, but the minute I was alone I knew I was going to cry my eyes out.†
Chpt 44-04
- If the tension had lasted another minute, she would have fainted.†
Chpt 44-04
- I've never seen such a transformation as in those thirty minutes.†
Chpt 44-04
- I sat up again after about five minutes, but before long he took my head in his hands and put it back next to his.†
Chpt 44-04
- "Yes, I'll be up in a minute, but I can't find the scissors!" Peter helped her look, rummaging around in her cosmetics drawer.†
Chpt 44-05
- Less than five minutes later she stormed back down the stairs, with her cheeks all puffed out, and flung her apron on a chair.†
Chpt 44-05
- I can't stand your bellyaching a minute longer. just wait, one day I'll make you eat your words!"†
Chpt 44-05
- This morning and last night, dummies made of straw and rubber were dropped from the air behind German lines, and they exploded the minute they hit the ground.†
Chpt 44-06
- If I force the good Anne into the spotlight for even fifteen minutes, she shuts up like a clam the moment she's called upon to speak, and lets Anne number one do the talking.†
Chpt 44-08
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.