How to Use at any second in a Sentence

at any second

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• And you can be ridiculed for it or torn apart or judged at any second.
  — Julyssa Lopez, Rolling Stone, 29 Nov. 2025
• They are equipped with rockets to shoot to kill at any second.
  — Literary Hub, 10 Nov. 2025
• Her jaws are tightly shut, in anticipation, ready to be thrown open at any second.
  — Literary Hub, 27 Oct. 2026
• In Africa, Bear along with his white hunter and natives were pinned in a small brush blind for half a night by a lion that could have jumped in on them at any second.
  — Clare Conley, Outdoor Life, 18 Sep. 2025
• In every scene, Terry Malloy is being devoured by regret, torn apart about doing the right thing, and simmering with an existential anxiety that could blow at any second.
  — Devan Coggan, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Mar. 2026