All 38 Uses
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Lucky, by Sebold
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- I went into minute detail and, this time, did as Gail had told me to; I took each question slowly.
Chpt 11 *minute = careful explanation of
- Do you remember—looking at page sixteen of the grand jury minutes, line ten—'You picked him out of the lineup?'
Chpt 11 *minutes = formal notes
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- I could only focus on the next minute and believe that with each minute it would get better, that slowly all of this might go away.†
Chpt 1
- I could only focus on the next minute and believe that with each minute it would get better, that slowly all of this might go away.†
Chpt 1
- It was only fifteen minutes—but with the buggy crawl of contamination spreading over me, it felt very long—when a harried psychiatrist entered the room.†
Chpt 1
- She said it would be twenty minutes or so, she had to pack up and check out, but she would be there.†
Chpt 1 *
- I got a two-minute warning that my mother was coming up the stairs.†
Chpt 2
- Within minutes: "Bud!†
Chpt 3
- Finally, my mother went upstairs, only to come back down a few minutes later.†
Chpt 4
- We talked for a minute or two.†
Chpt 5
- I begged Wolff to give me just two minutes of his time.†
Chpt 7
- A few minutes later I heard the dispatcher say, "Here he is!" and those inside the locked door cheered.†
Chpt 7
- Lorenz was going to be back any minute.†
Chpt 9
- A few minutes later I was led into the room.†
Chpt 9
- Like a surgeon with a probe, she brought forth each nuance of the five minutes I'd spent inside that room.†
Chpt 9
- All spring, the office of the district attorney had given me an "any minute now" rap and this time was no different.†
Chpt 11
- Mary and he stood with us in the crowded lobby of the auditorium, where mothers and fathers fussed over the last-minute set of mortarboards, and one woman, unhappy with her daughter's mascara, spit-washed the black flecks from under her eyes.†
Chpt 11
- A few minutes later, I began to stumble.†
Chpt 11
- I talked uninterrupted for nearly five minutes.†
Chpt 11
- "We will take about a five-minute recess," Judge Gorman said.†
Chpt 11
- About ten or fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 11
- On the pathway about two minutes.†
Chpt 11
- Right outside the cave about fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 11
- So you were on the pathway for about two minutes?†
Chpt 11
- The area outside of the cave, as depicted in exhibit five, for about fifteen minutes?†
Chpt 11
- So within the first two minutes of this altercation you lost your glasses?†
Chpt 11
- So you were two minutes on the path and then fifteen minutes outside the gate, and it was during this fifteen-minute period that your glasses came off?†
Chpt 11
- So you were two minutes on the path and then fifteen minutes outside the gate, and it was during this fifteen-minute period that your glasses came off?†
Chpt 11
- So you were two minutes on the path and then fifteen minutes outside the gate, and it was during this fifteen-minute period that your glasses came off?†
Chpt 11
- I had first spotted his body from the back—not becoming certain it was him until a few minutes later when he spoke to me and I saw his face.†
Chpt 11
- Suddenly I knew that the last few minutes were ones I could wrestle back from him.†
Chpt 11
- Forty-five to fifty minutes.†
Chpt 11
- Forty-five to fifty minutes?†
Chpt 11
- Twenty minutes into the reading, I felt sharp, stabbing pains in my abdomen.†
Chpt 13
- "Twenty minutes at most," he said.†
Chpt 13
- Finally, after forty minutes, Marc pulled up.†
Chpt 13
- She'll be out in a few minutes and you can ride with them to the hospital.†
Chpt 13
- During the interview, I took fifteen minutes to remember the word thesis, as in thesis sentence—the basis of all composition courses.†
Chpt Aft.
Definitions:
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(1)
(minute as in: minute size) small, exceptionally small, or insignificant
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(2)
(minute as in: minute description) detailed (including even small considerations); and/or careful (done with care)
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(3)
(minutes as in: keep the minutes) a written record of what happened at a meeting
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(4)
(meaning too common or too 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.