Sentence examples for minute hands on from inspiring English sources

The end looked like this: five old guys sitting around a Chinese bakery, sipping coffee, the hour and minute hands on five wristwatches creeping together at the top of the dial.

Arroyo lifts his left leg like a Rockette, as if it is the minute hand on a watch pointed at 10 o'clock.

People cannot perceive very slow movement; below a minimum speed (about that of the minute hand on a watch) movements become imperceptible and can only be inferred (as in remembering the previous position of the hour hand).

The people sitting to your left and right would always be there, but you would move in relation to the person opposite, in a continuous flow that would be as imperceptible "as the movement of a minute hand on a watch".

To watch the shape-up of day laborers at one New York City intersection is to glimpse desperation, entrepreneurship and clannishness take form and then dissolve in three hours — three turns of the clock in the corner Dunkin' Donuts, 180 jumps of the minute hand on their scratched-up Casio wristwatches.

I gritted my teeth during the telling, hoping somehow that the minute hand on that famous Rolex clock above our heads would jump a half-hour ahead and find the round safely in progress before Leon embellished this nonstory even further.

I don't wear a watch, so I must guesstimate how long I've been on the pot by following the minute hand of the clock on the wall, which is imprecise at best.

During maneuvers from one target to the next, Chandra slews more slowly than the minute hand on a clock.

It takes the minute hand on a clock 15 minutes to slew 90 degrees.

A train supervisor once described this system as "kind of like watching the minute hand on a clock".

But because the buildings are so thin, these shadows will pass through the park at an incredibly fast pace, like a minute hand on a clock.