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Example sentences for "ten minutes"

  • She held miserably to his arm, thinking that, perhaps, the revelation might as well come at once as ten minutes later, for Stephen would be sure to accompany his friend to his horse.

  • Eight or ten minutes pass: he takes a pawn; she utters a little pooh!

  • So strangely involved are motives that, more than by her promise to Stephen, more even than by her love, she was forced on by a sense of the necessity of keeping faith with herself, as promised in the inane vow of ten minutes ago.

  • Ten minutes pass; he captures her knight; she takes his knight, and looks a very Rhadamanthus.

  • At the end of ten minutes, satisfied that no one had any concern in his immediate movements, he shambled on again down the Bowery.

  • And now, if you like, I will be ready to take you out in ten minutes.

  • Surely Mrs. Podgens and her baby can wait ten minutes.

  • I won't open it, love, but I will be with you in ten minutes; I will, indeed.

  • Ten minutes to nine, and the committee embarked in a body.

  • She had not left the house ten minutes, when one of those street-boys, who abound at all hours of the day on the great Square, appeared, bringing a letter to her address.

  • In ten minutes I shall see the attorney of the Commonwealth.

  • At the end of ten minutes, their curiosity, stimulated by the most absurd suppositions, had become such martyrdom to them, that they made up their minds to knock at the clerk's door.

  • Besides, we should be pursued at once, overtaken in ten minutes, and brought back as prisoners at the mercy of the soldiery.

  • It took me ten minutes to water it and I was in a bath of perspiration.

  • But start away at ten minutes to five, as I tell you, and at half-past seven you will be again aboard of the Jean Guiton, which will put you down this same evening on the quay at La Rochelle.

  • Ten minutes after, he burst into Forbes's room with the open letter in his hand.

  • If he was separated from his cup for ten minutes, his whisper became inaudible.

  • Anne did remember it and was back in the stipulated time, although probably no mortal will ever know just what it cost her to confine the discussion of Diana's important communication within the limits of ten minutes.

  • Ten minutes isn't very long to say an eternal farewell in," said Anne tearfully.

  • If we could get a couple of batteries into that field for three minutes," he said, "it would do the work, but in ten minutes it will be too late.

  • As for Little Darby himself, the only thing he said was, "I knowed I could cut it down in ten minutes.

  • Ten minutes later he rose from his seat and dropped the torn pieces into the fireplace.

  • Ten minutes after, he saw her leave the room again, and lock it twice.

  • The latter gentleman now made his appearance on the balcony, where he was saluted with shouts even more energetic than those with which, ten minutes before, his colleague had been received.

  • The tide, you perceive, is rising; ten minutes hence it will have soaked the sands where we are now walking in such a manner that we shall not be able to keep our footing.

  • From Planchet's shop to the Louvre was not far--they arrived in ten minutes.

  • However, in spite of this painful reminder of her new position in life, Cytherea left the apartment in a mood far different from the gloomy sadness of ten minutes previous.

  • The "make ready" of ten minutes to one differs from the "make ready" of ten minutes to twelve, as youth differs from age.

  • At ten minutes to one o'clock Wade returned.

  • In ten minutes I shall cross the Central, Southern and Middle Western States, and be legging it trippingly for the Canadian border.

  • Jump into the car, and we'll take your collie there in ten minutes.

  • It had taken Harmon and the Master the best part of ten minutes to drive through the park and to the boarding kennels.

  • But in ten minutes he was on the wire once more.

  • Ten minutes to three, and I'd just got to sleep!

  • Mr. Singleton went down into the chart-room, and came back again in five or ten minutes.

  • At ten minutes to three the bell rang for Karen.

  • They came back in ten minutes, reporting no change in Turner's condition.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ten minutes" 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:
    also wrote; discharged from; exceeding great; first volume; laissez faire; legislative union; prismatic crystals; second half; surface runways; ten days; ten dollars; ten feet; ten miles; ten thousand; ten years; tendency towards; tender conscience; tender heart; tender years; tenement house; tenement houses; tennis court; tensile strength; this quarter; true unity; watching over