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Example sentences for "full minute"

  • He stood as one petrified for a full minute, unable to at once grasp the meaning of the performance.

  • The blood turned cold in the veins of every one in the garden; faces blanched suddenly and all voices were hushed; a form of paralysis seized and held them for a full minute.

  • The trio watched him for a full minute, speech-bound now that the deed was done and the consequences were to be considered.

  • The little Persian wife of Selim, after waiting for a full minute, gently touched the arm of the Princess.

  • As we entered, he held the door ajar for a full minute, listening intently.

  • Mother Borton leaned her head on her hand, and gazed on me thoughtfully for a full minute.

  • Then this strange creature seated herself in front of me, and looked steadily and sternly in my face for a full minute.

  • For answer he replaced his hat at a rakish angle and shook my hand with both his for what seemed a full minute, the crowd parting good-naturedly like a wave encircling a rock.

  • There was no sound for almost a full minute, then the rifle was withdrawn, and the unshaved, disheveled French-Canadian stood before him.

  • He is silent for a full minute; then he says,-- "I have given a paper to Dr.

  • And for a full minute no word is spoken between them.

  • Whereupon rapture ensues that lasts for a full minute.

  • Then there is silence for a full minute, during which Miss Mansergh casts a reproachful glance at the irrepressible Jack.

  • It took me a full minute to find them, but he didn't grow impatient.

  • No sound at all came from the screen for a full minute.

  • When I opened my eyes for the second time, a full minute later, the eyes that looked back at me were just as I'd pictured them.

  • He could not see her face until she turned, a full minute later.

  • Droom stared straight beyond the young liar and was silent for a full minute.

  • For a full minute, Bansemer did not speak.

  • The two glared at each other for a full minute.

  • Ainley stood looking at the long cascade for a full minute, a wild light in his eyes, then he looked long and steadily at the gorge through which the river ran after its great leap.

  • For a full minute he lay there, out of the wind and biting snow-hail, feeling like a man who has stumbled out of bitter cold to a soft couch in a warm room.

  • They listened a full minute, but the silence could not have been more profound.

  • He was speechless for a full minute, and could only stand still and wonder how it was possible for him to make such a blunder.

  • For a full minute it seemed to her that her heart would stop beating.

  • Not a word was uttered for a full minute.

  • There was a full minute of reflection before any of his hearers expressed the thought that had framed itself in every mind.

  • He stared at her for a full minute as though doubting his ears.

  • The professor looked at them intently for a full minute, they returning his look with an insolent glare of defiance.

  • We waited thus for a full minute, and then I peered over the ledge again.

  • It must have been a full minute before I dared to open my eyes and look again.

  • So we stood there facing one another for a full minute, at a loss for words.

  • She took the clasp, looked at it intently for a full minute, and then returned it.

  • A full minute passed, during which there was some pulling by each side, and still the ribbon remained squarely over the chalk mark.

  • Frank and the others went to the sleeping room and stood by the couch looking at Mellor in silence for a full minute.

  • Nevertheless he sprang upon the man with calculated fury, gripped him between the base of the neck and the shoulders with both gnarled paws, and shook him back and forth, violently and frightfully, for a full minute.

  • He took no notice whatever of me, although I, on my way to the lee of the chart-house, stood at his shoulder a full minute, offering him a chance to speak.

  • He jerked his beast down to a walk and we rode in silence side by side for a full minute before he said gruffly: "You'd never find the way alone.

  • After waiting a full minute I opened the door and looked without.

  • A full minute more of the threatening silence, and at the end of it we were glaring at each other like two wild creatures crouching for the spring.

  • For a full minute he poised there motionless, the most exquisitely graceful, the most exquisitely coloured of all our butterflies, and, for a full minute, the dormouse watched him.

  • This he continued for a full minute, until his whiskers bristled like tiny needles, without a speck of dust throughout their length.

  • It was a full minute before he broke the silence, and for that full minute I had to preserve my gravity.

  • A full minute passed, another, and they were out.

  • Her eyes were on the child for a full minute.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "full minute" 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:
    full activity; full armor; full armour; full assurance; full blast; full career; full colors; full doses; full flight; full force; full great; full half; full light; full meal; full noble; full operation; full size; full song; full speed; full thousand; full uniform; full view; fully illustrated; her little; microwave radio relay international; seem right