How to Use minute in a Sentence

minute

1 of 2 noun

• I saw him a minute ago.
• The secretary read the minutes of the last meeting.
• My house is just a few minutes from here.
• One minute it was sunny, the next it was pouring rain.
• Dinner will be ready in just a few minutes.
• We waited for several minutes, but no one came to the door.
• Bake the cake for 25–30 minutes.
• The idea took a minute to take off.
  — Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 17 Sep. 2025
• Take a minute and make these changes now.
  — Zak Doffman, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Leave to drain for a few minutes.
  — Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
• Gross was shot about a minute later.
  — Emerson Clarridge updated February 17, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 18 Feb. 2026
• Tasks that once took hours now take minutes.
  — Minna Hu, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
• Stir in garlic and cook for 1 minute.
  — Sarah Martens, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 Feb. 2026
• Face the Nation will be back in a minute.
  — CBS News, 7 June 2026
• Face the Nation will be back in a minute.
  — CBS News, 3 May 2026
• Blend until smooth, about 1 minute.
  — Ann Taylor Pittman, Southern Living, 24 Sep. 2025
• Bake the cake for about 35 minutes.
  — Maggie Meyer Glisan, Better Homes & Gardens, 17 May 2026
• This time, Pulisic stayed down for two full minutes.
  — Paul Tenorio, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2025
• That event was maybe 15 minutes.
  — Riley Rourke, CBS News, 17 Feb. 2026
• Slow down for the final six minutes to cool down.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• There’s 14 songs in five minutes.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 17 May 2026
• In fact, no starter played more than 27 minutes.
  — Scott Fowler, Charlotte Observer, 25 Mar. 2026
• Rust went to the penalty box for two minutes.
  — Madeline Bartos, CBS News, 27 Jan. 2026
• The man said the boat was up in flames within minutes.
  — Raven Brunner, PEOPLE, 10 May 2026
• Robinson fouled out with just over five minutes left.
  — Maddie Hartley, Kansas City Star, 3 Mar. 2026
• Lukaku played his first minutes at the weekend.
  — James Horncastle, New York Times, 28 Jan. 2026
• Increase your speed for the next six minutes to a brisk pace.
  — Bryan Robinson, Forbes.com, 2 Sep. 2025
• Points are deducted if kids try to refuse at the last minute.
  — Moira McCarthy, Boston Herald, 25 Feb. 2026
• After a few minutes, blot the area and wash the item by hand.
  — Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 29 Oct. 2025
• Hathaway does three-minute planks and eats lean proteins.
  — David Denby, New Yorker, 21 June 2026

minute

2 of 2 adjective

• There were minute particles of dust in the air.
• She told him what happened in minute detail.
• The equipment is able to detect the minutest errors.
• The test detected minute amounts of contamination.
• The black lower flange has transferred texts and minute tracks.
  — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• The most minute thing can change everything.
  — Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 17 Oct. 2025
• Minute Earth tries to answer that question in the above video.
  — Avery Thompson, Popular Mechanics, 22 Feb. 2017
• The difference between a great game, a good game, and a bad game can be so minute.
  — WIRED, 6 Oct. 2022
• To the Chainsmokers' credit, there were some nifty, minute-long set pieces.
  — Piet Levy, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 13 Nov. 2019
• This is how minute the differences from one house to the other can feel throughout.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 20 Jan. 2022
• Johnson wants to understand those things to the most minute level.
  — Nathan Brown, The Indianapolis Star, 26 Sep. 2020
• They're found in very minute concentrations, down to the parts per trillion.
  — Keith Matheny, Detroit Free Press, 7 Mar. 2022
• That’s crucial when multi-minute exposures could risk his life.
  — Wes Siler, Outside Online, 25 Jan. 2019
• Her little foot bears thousands of minute muscular setae that grip and clasp like the toes of a mighty gecko.
  — Literary Hub, 23 Feb. 2026
• Public and private grantors might demand still more minute reporting of their grantees.
  — Theater Critic, San Francisco Chronicle, 9 Mar. 2026
• Dying, that most worrisome thing, occupies less head space than the most minute things.
  — Geoff Dyer, The New Yorker, 16 Mar. 2020
• Minute droplets of fog condense in the tiny holes of the mesh, which glom together into drops large enough to drip down the fibers.
  — Maya Wei-Haas, Smithsonian, 29 Mar. 2017
• There are minute little fluctuations in each instance of time.
  — Chris Smith, BGR, 30 July 2021
• Scientists have found that even minute amounts of many of the chemicals can be dangerous.
  — David Abel, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Feb. 2021
• There’s a very, very minute number of people explicitly trying to vote in two states.
  — Gray Rohrer, OrlandoSentinel.com, 30 June 2017
• Breguet employs an in-house acoustician whose job is to ensure the perfect pitch on its minute repeaters.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Sep. 2023
• The kind of faithful customers who knew the menu by heart, who knew when any alterations were made to a dish, no matter how minute.
  — Washington Post, 6 Dec. 2021
• The fumes, an effect of off-gassing (the emission of minute amounts of volatile organic compounds), will go away in a few days.
  — Patricia Marx, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
• The visual changes are relatively minute.
  — Florence Ion, PC Magazine, 16 June 2026
• Pulling it off would require trips to three different grocery stores and untold hours of exacting, minute tasks.
  — Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2025
• Among the other items seen at the site was a glass globe, possibly part of a minute glass timepiece, and fragments of wood believed to be from a cask.
  — al, 28 Feb. 2022
• Compared with their tourbillons and minute repeaters, a seconds-counting hand is peasant fare.
  — Adam Erace, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026
• The estimates vary, but all told, only a minute percentage of victims ever see their money again.
  — Joel Khalili, WIRED, 7 Sep. 2023
• The hour markers and minute track float above the retrograde chronograph, creating a real statement on the wrist.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 6 Sep. 2025
• The hour markers and minute track float above the retrograde chronograph, creating a real statement on the wrist.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2025