How to Use microsecond in a Sentence

microsecond

noun

• Once this whole process takes place — in a matter of microseconds — the ad appears.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2019
• The next step in the build required Keegan to look down for just a microsecond.
  — August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
• The slam to the bruise on my arm and the slap to the other one on my cheek brought the lesson home in a microsecond.
  — Steve Meyer, Alaska Dispatch News, 5 Sep. 2017
• The pair found that clocks on the moon tick faster than those on Earth by about 56 microseconds each day.
  — Becky Ferreira, WIRED, 4 Sep. 2024
• In the very first microseconds of the Big Bang, something strange happened.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• This type of basic system can react to inputs in microseconds.
  — Lee-Lean Shu, Forbes.com, 11 June 2026
• The charge storage in the capacitor is volatile, though, and will be lost in a matter of microseconds.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 7 June 2018
• Every finger flick, every hip thrust, every hair flip was choreographed to the microsecond.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Linearly scaled up to a week of operation, that equates to just over 2 microseconds of drift.
  — Perri Thaler, IEEE Spectrum, 17 Dec. 2025
• When all of that was applied, the researchers found that their qubit system was stable for at least 36 microseconds.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2018
• If anything, that fade better happen and that silence better be a microsecond before the next joint.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 June 2023
• As a result of these issues, the sort of qubit that the researchers in this work used typically lasts about five microseconds.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 5 Oct. 2018
• Otherwise that processing would have to happen in the brain, at a cost of precious microseconds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2021
• The company can execute trades in just a few microseconds, and process data in mere nanoseconds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2017
• Some people can make unimaginable fortunes in microseconds, while others still scratch a living out of the dry ground.
  — Patrick Iber, The New Republic, 23 Apr. 2018
• Do gridiron fans truly love the fact that only a few microseconds of actual action are packed into each hour.
  — Martin Rogers, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
• Lasers need to fix on a target to burn them, but HPM pulses are shorter than one microsecond.
  — Joe Pappalardo, Popular Mechanics, 24 Sep. 2019
• That gave us an indication that lighting spark during the first tens of microseconds is not driven by the electric field in the cloud.
  — Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 31 Mar. 2025
• In a Quake or Doom game, everything has to be perfect—every microsecond.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2019
• For example, 5G needs to be accurate to within a tenth of a microsecond.
  — Keith Cooper, Space.com, 2 Dec. 2025
• That ends at three microseconds after the radiation burst arrives.
  — John Timmer, Ars Technica, 24 Sep. 2024
• Push it a microsecond earlier or later, and the results are different.
  — Nick Sortal, miamiherald, 26 Dec. 2017
• Every instant at which the brightness change exceeds a certain threshold, with microsecond timing.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 5 Nov. 2024
• Within a fraction of a microsecond, the electron and the positron collide and annihilate each other in a flash of gamma rays.
  — Adrian Cho, Science | AAAS, 25 Aug. 2020
• Because in cyberspace, of course the decisions are made in microseconds that human beings can’t complicate.
  — Eric Johnson, Vox, 11 June 2019
• The microsecond a branch bumps an outdoor line, these smart systems detect the disruption and cut the power to that specific wire before a spark can even form.
  — Jasmine Garland, The Conversation, 7 July 2026
• In the first movement, Denk at times goosed the beat by a few microseconds, not enough to sound careless, but just enough to create urgency or excitement.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 June 2019
• In the next microsecond, the cop, his eyes burning with fear, pulled and pointed his M9 Berretta two inches from my forehead.
  — Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 June 2020
• The intense laser pulse lasted just a few microseconds, but created a brilliant flash and a loud bang, as though the leather had been hit by an explosive projectile.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 23 May 2022
• These extreme physical conditions are maintained for a duration of less than one microsecond.
  — Aman Tripathi, Interesting Engineering, 18 Dec. 2025