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Example sentences for "two minutes"

  • Two minutes later, Pierre Leduc's body was swinging at the end of the rope.

  • He went back to his chair and commanded: "Waldemar, set the hands at two minutes to twelve again.

  • Two minutes after, he handed his chief a little flat, nickel-plated key, bearing the numbers 16 and 9.

  • Two minutes of absolute silence ticked away in the wake of Baldy's words.

  • In two minutes he had a little fire going clearly.

  • When I see it was Mrs. Sampson's house, I gave forth a kind of yell, and I was there in two minutes.

  • In two minutes he rose from the stile: his face expressed pain when he tried to move.

  • In two minutes more, his black retreating figure had lessened in the distance till it looked again, what it had once looked already, a moving blot on the brilliant white surface of the sun-brightened road.

  • In two minutes I heard what he had to say, mastered it in my own mind, and went out.

  • He wrote his answers to the two proposals, literally in two minutes.

  • If the West Side could claim forty-two minutes out of his forty-two weeks' bookings every year, it was an occasion for bonfires and repainting of the Pump.

  • In two minutes he emerged and turned his left side to Mac.

  • With his clamps he could draw the knob, punch the tumblers and open the door in two minutes.

  • A Lake Erie fog'd get lost here in two minutes.

  • Redoubling my efforts, my stride increased to twenty ties at a jump, and I made the next five miles in two minutes.

  • In two minutes I thundered past Lava Hurst, where I learned that the engine had twenty miles start of me.

  • The relief from the weight of the train set its pace to a mile a minute instead of a mile in two minutes, and there we were at a dead stop in front of the Vitriol Station with nothing to move us along.

  • He was lying there in the sun, and I took a stick and put him out of his misery in two minutes.

  • In two minutes I sat alone, isolated, a mark for all eyes; a kind of leper in the Assembly!

  • A dog was kennelled there, but it knew me and wagged its tail; and in two minutes, after warily skirting the backs of the houses, I gained the road to Milhau, and stood free and alone.

  • I began to remove them as fast as I could to the trap-door, and the boy saw and followed my example; in two minutes we had stacked a hundred and more on the door.

  • I was correct in my supposition: she had been upset by what is called a white squall, and in two minutes would be down.

  • In two minutes we had possession of her, and had put her head the other way.

  • All this, however, was but the work of two minutes; and I could not help observing by what trifles lives are lost or saved.

  • You complimented me two minutes since on my powerful mind.

  • It transfigured him in two minutes, brought the colour back to his face, and made him at least word-valiant.

  • It war only a bit of a sum in practice, that our Harry would have settled i' two minutes.

  • Then she was piqued, and turned away; but he recalled her attention in two minutes.

  • In two minutes he would explain all, in two words give the key to the puzzle.

  • Uncle Ro did try again, and, two minutes later, the door opened.

  • In two minutes my hand was on the latch of the little door; and in two seconds more it was open, and I found myself standing in front of Mary Warren.

  • Yet a moment afterwards, when they ranged up alongside, and started together for a two minutes' burst of rowing, the good crew would leave its opponents as though they were standing still.

  • I once sculled seventy-eight strokes in two minutes, and felt more dead than alive at the end of it.

  • Two minutes more to play and the score 14 to 12 in favor of Canton.

  • We'll have the whole dorm on us in two minutes!

  • Two minutes remained of the third quarter.

  • Strain the butter that may be left in the stewpan, and put it in a frying-pan with about an ounce more, and fry the birds for about two minutes; serve with water-cress or parsley all around.

  • Inside of two minutes I was outdoors lookin' for a chance to win a Carnegie medal.

  • Inside of two minutes he'd made torn mosquito netting of Sadie's kick, shown her up for a rank outsider, and put us both through the ropes.

  • Inside of two minutes by the clock we had the front yard to ourselves.

  • Quoting the man you have once spoken to as if he had talked a life's talk in two minutes.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "two 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:
    allow them; boxing match; closely allied; floating island; good boy; government official; house are many mansions; maple syrup; two ago; two and; two companies; two distinct; two hundred and fifty; two hundred thousand dollars; two hundred thousand francs; two hundred thousand pounds; two inches; two kinds; two later; two miles; two parts; two sockets under one; two thousand five hundred; two ways; two weeks; two years