All 50 Uses
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A Good Man is Hard to Find AND OTHER STORIES
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- Mrs. Shortley observed it minutely for half a second.
Story 10. *minutely = carefully
- His attention was fixed on the cock who was taking minute steps backward, his head against the spread tail.
Story 10. *minute = small
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- It took them twenty minutes to reach the outskirts of the city.†
Story 1.
- The grandmother took cat naps and woke up every few minutes with her own snoring.†
Story 1.
- It wouldn't take over twenty minutes.†
Story 1.
- All at once they would be on a hill, looking down over the blue tops of trees for miles around, then the next minute, they would be in a red depression with the dust-coated trees looking down on them.†
Story 1.
- "This place had better turn up in a minute," Bailey said, "or I'm going to turn around."†
Story 1.
- In a few minutes they saw a car some distance away on top of a hill, coming slowly as if the occupants were watching them.†
Story 1.
- It came to a stop just over them and for some minutes, the driver looked down with a steady expressionless gaze to where they were sitting, and didn't speak.†
Story 1.
- They went off toward the woods and just as they reached the dark edge, Bailey turned and supporting himself against a gray naked pine trunk, he shouted, "I'll be back in a minute, Mamma, wait on me!†
Story 1.
- If He did what He said, then it's nothing for you to do but thow away everything and follow Him, and if He didn't, then it's nothing for you to do but enjoy the few minutes you got left the best way you can-by killing somebody or burning down his house or doing some other meanness to him.†
Story 1.
- "She would of been a good woman," The Misfit said, "if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life."†
Story 1.
- The hog ran under the house and subsided, panting, but the child screamed for five minutes.†
Story 2.
- In a few minutes she had got up and got a book out of the other room.†
Story 2.
- One man moved a little distance away and sat down on the bank and took off his shoes and waded out into the stream; he stood there for a few minutes with his face tilted as far back as it would go, then he waded back and put on his shoes.†
Story 2.
- After a minute a shaft of light let in the tall silhouette of his mother.†
Story 2.
- "Son," he said after a minute, "I got the best old mother in the world so I reckon you only got the second best."†
Story 3.
- After a few minutes there was a guffawing peal of thunder from behind and fantastic raindrops, like tin-can tops, crashed over the rear of Mr. Shiftlet's car.†
Story 3.
- "I seen it after five minutes of him," she had told Bill Hill and Bill Hill, with no expression whatsoever, had said, "It taken me three."†
Story 4.
- The minute she stood at the bottom of them, they reared up and got steeper for her benefit.†
Story 4.
- After a minute he said, "Do you think he found it?†
Story 4.
- You shut up this minute.†
Story 4.
- She felt herself, after a minute, getting almost calm and thought she got upset too easy; heck, it was gas.†
Story 4.
- "They would be perfectly safe with those boys all right," her mother said and in a minute she got up and called their grandmother on the telephone and after she had talked to the old woman a half an hour, it was arranged that Wendell and Cory would come to supper and afterwards take the girls to the fair.†
Story 5.
- After a minute he put it down and lifted the other.†
Story 6.
- Nelson felt that there was less breath in the air than there had been thirty minutes ago.†
Story 6.
- At any minute any man in the city might be sucked into the sewer and never heard from again.†
Story 6.
- "The direction just slipped my mind for a minute," Mr. Head said and they turned down a different street.†
Story 6. *
- However, he realized they were lost and drifting farther every minute from the station.†
Story 6.
- After a minute she said, "You in town now," in a rich low tone that made Nelson feel as if a cool spray had been turned on him.†
Story 6.
- His eyelids began to droop, and after a few minutes his head tilted forward.†
Story 6.
- In a few minutes Nelson would wake up, refreshed by his sleep and very cocky, and would begin complaining that he had lost the sack and the way.†
Story 6.
- He looked at the sprawled figure for several minutes; presently he stood up.†
Story 6.
- In a minute he began to move mechanically, making no effort to catch up with his grandfather but merely following at about twenty paces.†
Story 6.
- Their train glided into the suburb stop just as they reached the station and they boarded it together, and ten minutes before it was due to arrive at the junction, they went to the door and stood ready to jump off if it did not stop; but it did, just as the moon, restored to its full splendor, sprang from a cloud and flooded the clearing with light.†
Story 6.
- After a minute the little boy said, "Say, lady, you know what he said one time?†
Story 7.
- After a minute she said in an altered voice, "Would you boys care for some breakfast?"†
Story 7.
- I'll go tell them they got five minutes to leave here in.†
Story 7.
- The child took over the position in the window and In a few minutes she saw the stiff green hat catching the glint of the sun as her mother crossed the road toward the calf barn.†
Story 7.
- For almost a minute they sat looking at what he had in his hand.†
Story 7.
- A real limousine came at ten minutes to eight and took them to the theater.†
Story 8.
- I can stand him real good," he had said, "but me nor my wife neither could have stood that woman one more minute on this place."†
Story 9.
- "You wait a minute," she said.†
Story 9.
- She could see Joy observing sidewise how he handled his knife and fork and she saw too that every few minutes, the boy would dart a keen appraising glance at the girl as if he were trying to attract her attention.†
Story 9.
- Every five minutes or so she would stifle a yawn.†
Story 9.
- She could see that after a minute Joy said something and that then the boy began to speak again, making an excited gesture with his free hand.†
Story 9.
- After a minute Joy said something else at which the boy began to speak once more.†
Story 9.
- For almost a minute he didn't say anything.†
Story 9.
- You're a brave sweet little thing and I liked you the minute I seen you walk in the door.†
Story 9.
- When after a minute, she said in a hoarse high voice, "All right," it was like surrendering to him completely.†
Story 9.
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.