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Example sentences for "five seconds"

  • After an interval of two or three, or sometimes four or five seconds, the hemispherical body of mud rose and exploded again.

  • The vibrations diminished gradually during the following ten seconds, and then occurred with renewed vigor for about twenty-five seconds more.

  • I recorded a shock of five seconds' duration, and one at 4.

  • In virtue of that proper motion, the two components are carried together over the sky at the rate of five seconds annually.

  • The whole length of its visible course was about 170 miles, which was performed in a period of five seconds, thus giving an average velocity of thirty-four miles per second.

  • Cygni arrested our attention, in the first instance, by the circumstance that it had the large proper motion of five seconds annually.

  • The color that was to be seen the longer time was exposed first alone; after five seconds the other was exposed; and then both were seen for five seconds together, so that neither might have the advantage of the more recent impression.

  • An immediate mental recall at the end of five seconds of visual stimulation, under favorable though not unusual conditions of light, position and distance, seemed most likely to secure this desideratum.

  • After the first had been exposed five seconds alone, it was covered by means of a sliding screen, and the second was then exposed for the same length of time, the interval between the two exposures being also five seconds.

  • The experiments made in the visual field were restricted to visual memory images which were called up by the subject during the five minutes succeeding a five seconds' presentation of one or two objects.

  • When in the dry state a little longer exposure is required; and instead of taking a picture in four or five seconds, two or three minutes are necessary.

  • With the larger balances the moving of one pair of screws for a distance of one hole, generally makes a difference of four or five seconds in the temperature rate.

  • Five seconds, ten, perhaps; but in that space of time, short as it was, the man paid smartly for the sins of his life.

  • He, who a moment before had nodded over the fire, watching the flames grow, was transformed in five seconds into a furious man, tugging at the door, wrestling madly with the unyielding oak.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another connection; called here; five and twenty thousand; five books; five centimes; five children; five cubits; five days; five dollars; five drops; five eggs; five equal horizontal bands; five grains; five horizontal; five members; five men; five per; five pound; five sail; five thousand four hundred; five versts; five volumes; five were; good reputation; greatly surprised; many proofs