All 19 Uses of
minute
in
Always Running
Uses with a very common or rare meaning:
- Come over here a minute," he said.†
Chpt 1
- Then after a few minutes, we heard shouting from the parking area.†
Chpt 3
- They had us squatting there for five, ten, then fifteen minutes.†
Chpt 3
- After several long minutes more, one of the cops started throwing sand in our faces.†
Chpt 3
- He taught us how to strip them down in a matter of minutes.†
Chpt 3
- The tension lasted for a long minute.†
Chpt 4
- They beat on you for about three minutes—that's all," Chicharron urged.†
Chpt 5
- The doctors say if she were brought in only minutes later, she'd be dead.†
Chpt 6
- I acknowledged his goodby and watched him leave the room and walk up to the house, shaking his head. lie wasn't the first to wonder about this enigma of a boy, who looked like he could choke the life out of you one minute and then recite a poem in another.†
Chpt 6
- They'll be here any minute.†
Chpt 6 *
- The rounds were three-minutes long.†
Chpt 6
- After a minute's rest, another bell signaled the coming agony of the last and third round.†
Chpt 6
- In a matter of minutes, we had some 300 people on the front lawn.†
Chpt 7
- Chin, you get a couple of other dudes and come by five minutes after we do.†
Chpt 7
- Then a few minutes later, we came by in Dario's ride while the bikers were still figuring out who had gotten injured.†
Chpt 7
- I stopped for a minute and Delfina was still there, still smiling.†
Chpt 8
- In a few minutes, somebody passed me a gum wrapper.†
Chpt 9
- I stood there for 45 minutes, not believing Licha wouldn't be there.†
Chpt 9
- After an eternal minute, Chava pushes me away, wipes his face with a soiled sleeve, and then turns.†
Chpt 10
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.