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Example sentences for "another second"

  • With a bound he passed Steve, and in another second he had bayonetted the Frenchman, bringing the grenadier to the ground with a terrific crash.

  • In another second I was out of the house, and seated in my waiting hansom.

  • In another second I had him by the throat, and in still another I had hurled him sheer across the room and through the door.

  • It kinder sticks," she explained confidentially, but in another second a shining medal attached to a blue ribbon came flying out with appalling momentum.

  • In another second, a groan of despair escaped his lips.

  • In another second he was lost in a sleeping stupor.

  • In another second, they were in a veritable flood of light.

  • Another second, and the head was being fiercely ground into the dust under the thick solid leather of his boot-heel, the wounded body twisting and writhing in the most horrible contortions meanwhile.

  • In another second a faint thud on the outside told that the first adventurer had successfully scaled the barrier.

  • This left him swinging by one hand from the point of the propeller-blade; but in another second he had grasped it with his other hand, and, after a struggle or two, managed to get fairly astride the edge.

  • In another second he stood face to face with his friend.

  • In another second he was emptying the repeating rifle into the horde with some effect, but the unhurt ones dragged off their comrades and left Merle alone on the scene of battle.

  • In another second he had torn open the letter, and one glance sufficed.

  • In another second it was his turn to be kicked in the ribs until he yelled for mercy.

  • He slipped from under me, rolled on top, wrenched his wrist free, and in another second grinned in my face as, with both knees in my stomach, be raised the spear to kill.

  • In another second a merry little voice was heard in the passage, the door burst open, a fair-haired girl of about ten years of age sprang into the room, and immediately commenced to strangle her father in a series of violent embraces.

  • Another second, and the ship was on her beam-ends, and the sea and sky were white as milk as the wind tore up the waves and beat them flat, and whirled away broad sheets of driving foam.

  • He was a prompt man, and in another second he had acted up to that idea.

  • In another second it had ended, as she thought that it would end and had intended that it should end.

  • In another second he threw up his arms, and we heard him come to the earth with a thud.

  • Again Ignosi gave a word of command, which was taken up and repeated by the captains, and in another second, to my intense disgust, I found myself involved in a furious onslaught upon the advancing foe.

  • Another second and he was upon his feet, the red blood streaming from the wound in his face, and so was Twala.

  • We gave a bound and a rush, and in another second we were all down on our stomachs sucking up the uninviting fluid as though it were nectar fit for the gods.

  • Then at last she heard him softly draw the great knife from the sheath, and in another second he had glided from her side.

  • He was quite close to the cart when it moved on, and in another second he was greeted by the rough challenge of a sentry, and caught sight of the cold gleam of a rifle barrel.

  • In another second he had sprung from his horse, and, before she guessed who it was, he was standing face to face with her.

  • And indeed in another second it would have been all over had not the elder man who inspected the pass interposed.

  • In another second I saw the huge red jaws and gleaming ivories close with a crunch on the frail craft, taking an enormous mouthful out of its side and capsizing it.

  • In vain; in another second we were flying straight for the arch like an arrow, and I thought that we were lost.

  • In another second we were in their midst, and everyone held his breath in suspense.

  • But if I had thought that he was done for I was mistaken, for in another second he was up again, and coming at me as hard as ever, only with his head held low.

  • Another second, and I heard a most tremendous crashing noise.

  • Another second and he was over me, his great bulk towering above me like a mountain, and, upon my word, I could not get his smell out of my nostrils for a week.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "another second" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another adverb; another child; another creek; another direction; another from; another great; another island; another large; another letter; another member; another place; another power; another river; another series; another sort; another stewpan; another tribe; another variety; another version; another vessel; another while; another word; deeply religious; she passed; speak with; while she