Sentence examples for be seconds from inspiring English sources

This protects communications for the duration of the session, which might be seconds or minutes long.

Paul Dowswell's utterly gripping, award-winning novel follows three young combatants in the last hours of the war, when survival could only be seconds away.

I prefer the more literal image – history doesn't come around offering seconds – but the point remains: Will there be seconds at the smartphone repast?

The cleaver landed in the wooden bar, but there only seemed to be seconds between the arrival of the gang, the realisation there wasnt an exit and the arrival of the uniformed police.

"He'd ask Lyor to explain something, and Lyor would say something like 'Don't try to understand the mystery.' Steve would say, 'Are you kidding me?' " Employees watched as the diminutive Cooper, teeth clenched on an unlit cigar, argued with Cohen, a large man who sometimes conveys the impression that a blow may be seconds away.

Finally, when it seemed as if the passengers might be seconds from overcoming the terrorists, the hijacker turned the control wheel hard to the right, rolling the plane onto its back and, the report appears to say, intentionally crashed it into a Pennsylvania field as a hijacker shouted "Allah is the greatest".

"We should be first".

"To be first".

Communists will be second.

Children should be first.

Be first!