How to Use millisecond in a Sentence

millisecond

noun

• Each pod will shoot through the pipes just milliseconds apart.
  — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
• Should the beat last a millisecond longer?
  — Emma Madden, Los Angeles Times, 2 Mar. 2026
• In a millisecond the beam past through her and into the hull.
  — Kyle Hill, Discover Magazine, 15 Sep. 2013
• The world could be equal for a millisecond and shifted.
  — Rebecca Schneid, Time, 8 Mar. 2026
• Luge is the fastest sport on ice, where milliseconds matter.
  — Adriana Diaz, CBS News, 6 Feb. 2026
• And honk your horn if the car in front of you hesitates for a millisecond.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• As the name implies, these bursts of radio waves last just a millisecond or two.
  — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019
• The whole process takes less than 200 milliseconds.
  — Pragati Awasthi, The Conversation, 26 May 2026
• All of that happens in milliseconds.
  — Kurt Knutsson, FOXNews.com, 28 Mar. 2026
• These new events pulsed out of glows and lasted as long as 250 milliseconds.
  — Rudy Molinek, Smithsonian Magazine, 4 Oct. 2024
• Within a millisecond, a bad guy goes flying off of a speeding truck.
  — Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2021
• For just a millisecond or two of extra reaction time, that's not worth it.
  — Jon Martindale, Forbes, 24 May 2021
• Their planning has fallen apart, and the death toll is ramping up by the millisecond.
  — Noel Sharkey, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
• For now, the title of each video indicates down to the millisecond what time the clips start.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
• In that window, a quarterback might have a millisecond to thread a pass.
  — Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• The team hopes to stretch the front of the boom wave from a single millisecond out to twenty or thirty.
  — Matthew Hutson, The New Yorker, 25 June 2021
• System response times reach three to four milliseconds.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 28 Jan. 2026
• The delay of a few milliseconds between a change in engine speed and a change in the wheel’s speed is gone.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2023
• To break it into discs one, two, and three, someone has to look it up or think an extra millisecond.
  — Justin Curto, Vulture, 7 May 2024
• The leafy bough was followed a millisecond later by a squirrel.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
• Also, what appears to be a long time span in my life can seem like a millisecond of someone else’s life.
  — Vogue, 24 Jan. 2023
• El Camino picks up that same millisecond, after a cameo-ghost prologue.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• But each millisecond, each point gain, matters when the margins are this thin throughout the grid.
  — Madeline Coleman, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
• But lightning races through the body in milliseconds, and therefore often spares it.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 16 Mar. 2026
• Even cloud apps could afford a few hundred milliseconds of delay.
  — Ivo Ivanov, Forbes.com, 8 Aug. 2025
• Quant firms react in milliseconds.
  — Richard Torrenzano, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2025
• The flashes release more energy in milliseconds than the sun does in a day.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 26 Jan. 2025
• Every millisecond of the track is imprinted with an effect, and yet the mix has miles of space.
  — Jayson Greene, Pitchfork, 25 Apr. 2026
• These are teams of people who dedicate their lives to shaving milliseconds off the clock.
  — Chris Schembra, Rolling Stone, 30 Dec. 2025
• Four whole seconds in a sport where races are often decided by mere milliseconds.
  — New Atlas, 23 May 2026