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Example sentences for "minute after"

  • Jo followed a minute after to wave her hand to him if he looked round.

  • Jo couldn't resist giving that little slap, but May took it so meekly she regretted it a minute after, and fell to praising the great vases, which still remained unsold.

  • Tom a minute after, as Maud seemed absorbed in visions of the future.

  • Only a few years, and we need n't wait a minute after Syd is paid, if you don't mind beginning rather low down, Polly.

  • Then as I stooped there trembling with anxiety, I heard him yawn, push the lamp a little farther on the table, and a minute after, he was snoring loud.

  • The canoe swung round, and barely a minute after it had emerged from the rushes it disappeared again, rapidly moving under the strokes of eight red paddles.

  • Not more than a minute after he had reached the hill-top the nose of the long canoe shot into sight.

  • Be quite certain that the very moment I saw you my heart knew who it was, but a minute after I felt as if the lightning had struck me when I saw you step back, for I saw clearly enough that you did not expect to find me.

  • He got up from the table, went out, and returned a minute after with a box containing eight or ten miniatures, all in the same style, namely, with hair in disorder and bare necks.

  • I continued to expect him, minute after minute; for ten years he has never gone up to bed without coming to kiss me; so I spent a good part of the night close to the door, listening if I could hear his step.

  • A minute after, Faringhea, the ex-chief of the Stranglers, appeared before Rodin, who instantly remembered having seen him at Cardoville Castle.

  • For a minute after he was gone, Fleda cried excessively; and Charlton, now alone with her, felt as if he had not a particle of self-respect left to stand upon.

  • A minute after, he followed us with a full cup of steaming coffee which he placed on the window-sill, as it was too hot to hold steadily in his fingers, and interlarded his remarks with swallows of the liquid.

  • A minute after, our party was broken into sections, every one being left to pick his way as best he could to the scene of the fight between the dogs and bear.

  • The girl darted away as her companion rose from his seat with an appearance of putting, at least, one part of his threat in execution, and returned a minute after, bearing in her hand the ale he had demanded.

  • Not longer than to come round," replied Richard de Ashby, descending the stairs with them; and in a minute after, the heavy door of the house banged to behind the party of assassins.

  • Do you know I like this room most of all in my baby house," added Meg, a minute after, as they went upstairs and she looked into her well-stored linen closet.

  • Jo couldn't resist giving that little slap, but May took it so meekly she regretted it a minute after, and fell to praising the great vases, which still remained unsold.

  • I never knew any one stay here a minute after he could help it.

  • The man did as he was commanded; and, in a minute after, Smeaton entered the room.

  • A minute after, however, in came Sir John Newark; and he called for punch too.

  • A minute after I could discern the party through the branches--three white men on horseback, and a stout young negro.

  • A minute after he thinks: "She wished to bid me good-bye, also!

  • A minute after, Erma and Harry are on the platform and the man of the throttle-valve comes to them, carrying his little daughter, who looks pale, and has hungry eyes.

  • Consequently a minute after we stood within the walls that surrounded this place of evil repute, the door being carefully locked behind us.

  • Minute after minute we fought, he more for the love of fighting than for hatred for me, I with a mad heart, and with every evil passion aroused.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "minute after" 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:
    accessory after the fact; better idea; collegiate church; deferred payments; each direction; early marriage; family dinner; great idea; life long; long siege; minute afterwards; minute before; minute later; minute more; minute portion; minutes before; minutes east; minutes longer; minutes west; national pride; outward form; rare instances; sudden desire; that poor; well that; you only knew how