How to Use millisecond in a Sentence
millisecond
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Each pod will shoot through the pipes just milliseconds apart.
—Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 13 Jan. 2020
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And honk your horn if the car in front of you hesitates for a millisecond.
—Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
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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
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For now, the title of each video indicates down to the millisecond what time the clips start.
—Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
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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
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As the name implies, these bursts of radio waves last just a millisecond or two.
—Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019
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Alexander’s feet had moved an inch or two past the goal line in the milliseconds before the PK was taken.
—San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 June 2019
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Their planning has fallen apart, and the death toll is ramping up by the millisecond.
—Noel Sharkey, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
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In no more than 100 milliseconds, inflators pump up the airbag to the height of a typical front bumper.
—Matthew Jancer, Popular Mechanics, 15 Feb. 2019
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The number of millisecond pulsars is even less well-known.
—Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 10 Aug. 2018
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In that window, a quarterback might have a millisecond to thread a pass.
—Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2023
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Playing over Wi-Fi at home reduced the latency down to the 40s and 50s in milliseconds once again.
—Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 30 Oct. 2019
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But [when it is eaten] raw, the flavor only lasts for a millisecond, and then the heat is just taking off.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2023
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But [when it is eaten] raw, the flavor lasts only for a millisecond, and then the heat is just taking off.
—Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 26 Oct. 2023
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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
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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
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Within milliseconds, a hand with a switchblade swoops in and slashes a huge gash in the side of the bag before tearing it apart at its seams.
—Elizabeth Paton, New York Times, 4 Jan. 2024
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The leafy bough was followed a millisecond later by a squirrel.
—John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
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Within a millisecond, a bad guy goes flying off of a speeding truck.
—Ariana Romero, refinery29.com, 29 Mar. 2021
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For just a millisecond or two of extra reaction time, that's not worth it.
—Jon Martindale, Forbes, 24 May 2021
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Most of the changes have revolved around the milliseconds between the characters firing their blasters.
—Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
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El Camino picks up that same millisecond, after a cameo-ghost prologue.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2019
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Not only that, but the officials missed Wynn false starting by a millisecond on that play as well.
—Ben Volin, BostonGlobe.com, 5 Oct. 2022
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The force of landing allowed my skis, for just this brief millisecond, to connect with the surface below the river.
—Cat Jaffee, Outside Online, 20 Mar. 2023
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On the screen was an array of light gray dots on a black background whose number changed every 300 milliseconds.
—Virginia Morell, Science | AAAS, 17 Dec. 2019
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Why would a position held for a millisecond during a sprint of a dance matter?
—New York Times, 11 May 2021
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The change in the rotation would shorten the length of the day by a fraction of a millisecond over 12 months, the study suggested, as noted by the Wall Street Journal.
—Jason Hahn, Peoplemag, 24 Jan. 2023
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Bose is stating that the QCs can recognize and block noise within a fraction of a millisecond.
—Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 10 Sep. 2020
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But on third down, the quarterback hesitated for one millisecond longer, dodging the rush, and let the ball fly.
—Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
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The impact from a typical strike lasts only about five milliseconds.
—Jess Romeo, JSTOR Daily, 26 Feb. 2021
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