Sentence examples for a seconds from inspiring English sources

There's a "seconds" section filled with the cut-price pieces that the factory's famously strict quality controllers didn't consider to be up to scratch.

"Chinese market pieces were typically pearl-set and had a seconds hand, an added sign of sophistication since seconds hands were rarely used then in western watches.

Marbury, who had gotten a technical foul earlier for yelling at the referees, was fortunate to avoid a seconds technical foul and ejection.

"They insisted on putting a date in the module and a seconds counter because that's the standard," said Mr. Young, who argues that anyone who cares for that much accuracy should check their phones instead.

Competing in the arena built for the 1994 Winter Olympics, Niemann-Stirnemann was timed in 6 minutes 56.84 seconds, improving her world mark by four-tenths of a seconds.

In a race in which records are usually lowered by hundredths of a seconds, he shaved more than three-tenths of a second from the previous standard of 48.18.

Take a second jar.

"It's a seconds-count economy," said Sean Ryan, an analyst at IDC.

A seconds-long shot of a bedroom, noiseless save for the sound of something moving around somewhere, was enough to trigger chills.

It promises a story that is as sexy and clickable as a seconds-old status update, one about the most modern of subjects in a frantically wired world.

A narrator proclaims: "It's a movement, not a campaign; its leader, Donald Trump," with thundering drums punctuating his point, culminating in the longest shot of the ad: a seconds-long look at a towering, gleaming Trump hotel in Chicago.