Sentence examples for second hand in from inspiring English sources

Once again, the cavernous Academy erupts into a choir of audience voices, with every second hand in the building raised into the air.

So the brain extends the perception of the target -- the clock, with its second hand in a specific position -- back in time to the beginning of the eye movement.

Rock music might be "second hand" in China, but that didn't mean it could only be derivative, or that the band needed to abandon their roots in order to participate in the rock tradition.

Of the remaining tracks we have the legendarily joyous Funky Kingston, and the elegaic Carrickfergus, which taps into another theme that seems to pass through songs about towns (though admittedly at second hand in this cover): the reminiscence of the city-dweller about the place they grew up.

We don't, for example, even know whether the basic unit of computational currency in the brain is digital (e.g., a set of zeroes and ones, like in virtually all modern computers) or analog (like the continuously moving second hand in an old-fashioned clock, an approach that was commonly used in some pre-Second World War computers).

Today, the American e-commerce giant announced that it is buying 2dehands.be and 2ememain.be, the two biggest online classified sites in Belgium (their names mean "second hand" in Flemish and French).

Fayyad first handed in his resignation on Feb. 23.

I learned this valuable advice first hand in New Zealand.

We saw this first hand in Wednesday's victory.

"I saw some of this first hand in Kankakee County in 2006," he said.

The first hand in the air belonged to Zasha Soto, whose interests were purely parochial.