His first emotion, that of amazement, changed in a split second to one of terror at his newly discovered weakness, and again from that to a feeling of stunned shock.
It was like holding a rocket engine in my hand for a split second.
The passage leveled off, he was whirling down a straight passage, and suddenly, in a split second of awareness, he saw a faint spot of bright light ahead of him.
For a split second he hesitated, but only long enough for the sane side of him to point out that any show of resistance at this point would probably be plain suicide.
A bit strange, though, there was no sign of the airfield on that mosaic map of Major Saratov's," he went on after a split second pause.
For a split secondhe half expected to hear the English youth comment volubly on the situation.
Dave had just a split second in which to see Freddy's arm move like a striking cobra; to see something sail out of his hand.
A split second before it hit, Dawson spun half around in the seat and flung both arms about Squadron Leader Hixon, and braced hard with both feet.
But it wasn't more than a split second or two before he knew beyond all doubt that the fantastic, and the utterly incredible was indeed the truth.
And a split secondlater he saw a thin column of smoke come up out of the conning tower hatch.
Dawson hesitated a split second, and then shrugged.
But a split second later, as terrible memory returned in full, there was not one bit of joy left in him.
A split second later he saw the prints of more than one pair of feet on the edge of the bathtub.
The Nazi craft seemed to jerk sideways for a split second.
If he did, he would be blinded in the flash of a split second.
After taking a split second to realize what they were looking at, one of the men swung the theodolite around to pick up the object, and the timer reset his stop watch.
But, the captain said, it took them only a split second to realize that whatever they saw was too low and had too flat a trajectory to be a meteor.
In a split second it closed in and flashed by their right wing--so close that both pilots thought that they would collide with it.
The German seemed to look blank for the tiniest part of a split second.
And a split second later it was all over for the plane and its crew.
A split secondlater he was sure he knew the truth about that incident.
That may have been a split second before or a split second after, or right as we completed the putting on of the handcuffs.
Just a split second look at the shattered wreckage was all that the boys were allowed before froth and boiling foam sucked the mess down out of sight forever.
And the English youth didn't waste a split second, or a single shot from his twin guns.
The whole craft rose clear out of water, seemed to hover motionless for a split second, and then buckle in the middle and fall back in again.
But in a split secondor even less it really was pitch dark.
The Intelligence Officer's eyes were wide with both anger and amazement.
Don't tell me, Colonel, that you really believe some Axis agent might try to get in a bit of personal revenge just because Freddy and I have been lucky on a couple of things!
And then after a split second's hesitation, he added, "May I ask why, sir?
Dawson hesitated for a split second, and then as he, too, caught sight of sunlight flashing off the wings of a moving plane he made up his mind, and banked the plane around.
Of course the thunder of the Dauntless' Cyclone drowned out Dave's words, but a split second later it was almost as though the two unknowns in the other plane had heard and understood.
I could swear that I saw a group of planes show off there for a split second or so.
Then he quickly flattened out, shot forward for a split second, and banked the Vultee over on its left wing tip.
As Dave jerked his head around for a split second, he saw the four men on the raft trying to scramble up to the U-boat's wet deck, only to go toppling over backwards like tenpins and disappear beneath the surface of the water.
Unmoving, he missed nothing and was ready at a split second notice to take advantage of anything that offered.
For a split second, Pete's eyes lost their lack-luster appearance and venom flooded them.
From the blackness and the eventless existence of a split second before, he was catapulted into a world of light and sound.
In a split second it was a full-sized chair and it was hurtling straight at the gangster's head.
I could reach out there, grab you up and have you down here in a split second.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "split second" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
