Sentence examples for Seconds passing from inspiring English sources
At night, Central Park was full of "hundreds of people, singles and families, who slept on the grass, next to their big alarm clocks, which set up a mild cacophony of the seconds passing, one clock's ticks syncopating with another's.
With a couple of other kids, I would go across 110th to the Park and walk among the hundreds of people, singles and families, who slept on the grass, next to their big alarm clocks, which set up a mild cacophony of the seconds passing, one clock's ticks syncopating with another's.
Instead, this late bloomer agreed to run for the Dominican Republic, and after narrowly missing the final in last year's Olympics, he won the final tonight in 47.49 seconds, passing Fabrizio Mori of Italy with about 40 meters remaining and holding him off by five-hundredths of a second.
Starting in the first wave behind the front-runners, Derek Yorek ran the first mile in four minutes 38 seconds, passing eventual winner Lelisa Desisa.
