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Example sentences for "three seconds"

  • The high winds across the ocean may have caused his car to deviate slightly from its path, so as soon as land appears the deviation has to be corrected, and only two or three seconds remain in which to correct it.

  • The rate of a mile in three seconds is kept up till Sydney rapidly appears in view.

  • To hold it longer than time enough to turn around quickly, or three seconds.

  • The motion in the vertical positions was also slightly improved and the next test in position showed a variation of three seconds as per fourth column Fig.

  • The third position test showed an improved motion and a variation of three seconds as per sixth column.

  • The total duration of the movement at Moncalieri cannot therefore have been less than forty-three seconds.

  • The most remarkable feature of the shock, however, was its division into two distinct parts or series of vibrations, separated by an interval, lasting two or three seconds, of absolute rest and quiet.

  • At Exeter, there was a sudden tremor lasting about two seconds, followed, after two or three seconds, by another and more severe shaking lasting four or five seconds.

  • But if one of the pieces landed inside maybe it wouldn't be big enough to keep him busy two or three seconds.

  • I stopped for two or three seconds, because I didn't know just what to do, then I walked up to the tree and just as I came near, the form stepped out from behind it.

  • That gave me two or three seconds to think.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "three seconds" 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:
    hide himself; three acres; three and; three arches; three cards; three companies; three dimensions; three friends; three great; three horizontal; three hundred and sixty; three inches; three leagues; three miles; three millions; three others; three places; three pounds; three sections; three sons; three states; three steps; three stitches; three vertical; three years; water line