All 50 Uses
minute
in
Breaking Dawn, by Meyer
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- Strange that I could distinguish the minute differences between footsteps that I'd never been able to hear at all before today.
Book 3 *minute = small
- Makenna looked at her mate's face again, and he nodded minutely.
Book 3minutely = slightly
Uses with a meaning too common or too rare to warrant foucs:
- I hesitated for a minute.†
Book 1
- I started to get up—I'm not sure what I planned to do; maybe use the Heimlich maneuver to make sure he wasn't choking—but Edward squeezed my hand and murmured "Give him a minute" so low that only I could hear.†
Book 1
- It took me a minute.†
Book 1
- But, after a few minutes, I found myself more alert, anxiety creeping back into my stomach, twisting it into uncomfortable positions.†
Book 1
- I lay shivering and gasping in my warm bed for several minutes, trying to break free of the dream.†
Book 1
- Can you hold yourself together for two minutes?†
Book 1
- Renée had flown in two days ago, and I'd spent every minute I could with her—every minute that I could pry her away from Esme and the decorations, in other words.†
Book 1
- Renée had flown in two days ago, and I'd spent every minute I could with her—every minute that I could pry her away from Esme and the decorations, in other words.†
Book 1
- My dad rummaged in his pockets for a minute and then produced a small white box, which he handed to Renée.†
Book 1
- I was happy when he finally cut in, just half a minute after a new dance started.†
Book 1
- He struggled for another minute and then exhaled.†
Book 1
- It took me a few minutes to catch up with what was going on when we stopped at the international counter to check in for our next flight.†
Book 1
- Twenty minutes later, he called my name over the roar of the engine.†
Book 1
- I'm sure you'd like a human minute or two.†
Book 1
- I felt barely human; maybe a few minutes alone would help.†
Book 1
- Or five minutes ago, anyway.†
Book 1
- "This isn't going to work," I sighed after a minute.†
Book 1
- It took only a minute—not long enough for me to zonk out.†
Book 1
- Impatient, I flipped them onto a plate after just a few minutes.†
Book 1
- Got a minute, Jake?†
Book 2
- I gritted my teeth but decided that he'd be more likely to cause trouble with Sam if I didn't lie to him for a few minutes.†
Book 2
- He stared into my eyes for a long minute.†
Book 2
- I had to ride the line for a minute to avoid getting smeared by a minivan.†
Book 2
- We'll both be back in just a few minutes.†
Book 2
- It took a minute for the words to sink in.†
Book 2
- But it's hard to leave her, even for a few minutes.†
Book 2
- We didn't talk for a minute.†
Book 2
- "It'll work out, you know," she said after a quiet minute.†
Book 2
- Stop being so...Took me a minute to decide on the right word.†
Book 2
- Twenty minutes, tops.†
Book 2
- We ran in silence, and the minutes passed.†
Book 2
- he warned me after fifteen minutes of silence.†
Book 2
- It wasn't two minutes later when I felt him in my head again.†
Book 2
- A few more minutes, a few more passes, and my fur was brushing the side of the porch as I paced.†
Book 2
- I'm pretty sure he'd rather they took him out than spend another minute with you.†
Book 2
- I snarled for a long, angry minute.†
Book 2
- He pretended to think about it for a minute.†
Book 2
- So once I was human, I took a minute to think things through.†
Book 2
- "Wait a minute," I whispered.†
Book 2
- But if I did, with the way she looked right now, I could be missing the last fifteen minutes of her life.†
Book 2 *
- I can run the line and be back in two minutes.†
Book 2
- I thought that over for a minute while he waited.†
Book 2
- They are vampires, I guess, Seth allowed after a minute, compensating for Leah's reaction.†
Book 2
- The room had shifted back to normal—almost—in the last twenty minutes.†
Book 2
- And I can't see more than a few minutes ahead, anyway.†
Book 2
- Wait a minute—what time is it now?†
Book 2
- We ran in silence for a few minutes.†
Book 2
- Put your feet up for a minute.†
Book 2
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.