How to Use nanosecond in a Sentence

nanosecond

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  • The key part of this date — and the apocalypse — is the fact that the world stood still for a nanosecond.
    — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 27 June 2020
  • You’re forced within the first nanosecond to take sides.
    — Fred Bahnson, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • Cash fired to Stanley, who applied the tag with a nary a nanosecond to spare.
    — Gene Myers, Detroit Free Press, 10 Apr. 2020
  • In a nanosecond, Arenado reached out, caught the ball in his bare right hand and threw it to first base.
    — Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post, 1 May 2017
  • The video flies by in a nanosecond, cutting between students from one school to the next.
    — Mary Carole McCauley, baltimoresun.com, 19 Nov. 2021
  • In some moments this week, that seems like nanoseconds ago, Woodruff said.
    — David Jesse, Detroit Free Press, 20 Feb. 2023
  • This has to happen at the nanosecond level, since the signals travel at the speed of light.
    — Popular Science, 9 Mar. 2020
  • In a prehistoric nanosecond, the reign of the dinosaurs ended and the rise of mammals began.
    — Cody Cassidy, Wired, 9 Apr. 2021
  • A femtosecond is a millionth of a nanosecond, which in turn is a billionth of a second.
    — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 1 July 2001
  • In about 5 percent of cases, the belt just happens to break during one of those few nanoseconds when none of the valves is fully opened.
    — Ray Magliozzi, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Mar. 2018
  • Being able to trade at the nanosecond level is vital to Nasdaq.
    — John Markoff, New York Times, 29 June 2018
  • One can, however, add the second beam splitter at the very last nanosecond.
    — Quanta Magazine, 25 July 2018
  • One need only think of the global reach of the #MeToo movement that spread in a matter of virtual nanoseconds.
    — Kathleen Parker | Opinion, Anchorage Daily News, 15 Feb. 2018
  • Quickly — in about a nanosecond — four examples came to mind.
    — Tim Goodman, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 May 2018
  • In less than a week—a nanosecond in the timeline of museum bureaucracy—the Whitney had made the change.
    — Andrea K. Scott, The New Yorker, 17 Feb. 2017
  • At the same time, a conductor must anticipate what comes next and signal the cues a nanosecond ahead of time.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Side characters show up for a nanosecond, then fade from the film’s memory.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 23 June 2023
  • But in Britten, a nanosecond of hesitation lessens the impact of the music.
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 2 Feb. 2018
  • When the lipids come into contact with the naked strands of mRNA, electric charge pulls them together in a nanosecond.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021
  • So a Maryland employee had a customer shoot a video of him flipping a lid onto a dish in what seems like a nanosecond.
    — Shannon Liao, CNN, 25 Oct. 2019
  • French scientists believe the world stood still for a nanosecond, causing the divergence of tidal forces.
    — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 28 June 2020
  • The gnocchi crackle against the teeth for a nanosecond before dissolving.
    — Los Angeles Times, 30 June 2022
  • And that can change in a nanosecond, like some waterfall that suddenly shifts from one vivid shade to another?
    — David Patrick Stearns, Philly.com, 9 Aug. 2017
  • French scientists discovered the world stood still for a nanosecond, causing a diverge of tidal forces.
    — Ashley Chervinski, refinery29.com, 27 June 2020
  • Her stick flinched right, for a nanosecond, then came back to the left; by that time, Szabados was already confused, and Lamoureux could have just backhanded the shot.
    — Sean Gregory/pyeongchang, Time, 26 Feb. 2018
  • Tuckered-out main characters in movies snuggle up under their covers in a bedroom with half the lights still on, and they are conked out in a nanosecond.
    — WIRED, 15 Mar. 2023
  • The researchers showed that this sound wave persists for some 5 to 20 nanoseconds, depending on the acoustic frequency.
    — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 27 July 2017
  • Madlib and his peers made a style out of imperfection—the way drums sometimes lag a nanosecond behind, or a sampled loop where a background hiss becomes part of the beat.
    — Hua Hsu, The New Yorker, 18 Jan. 2021
  • Ground-penetrating radar waves travel at a fraction of the speed of light, so the entire process—transmission, reflection, recording—takes nanoseconds.
    — WIRED, 28 Sep. 2023
  • After firing 192 lasers at a small pellet filled with deuterium-tritium fuel, the resulting reaction essentially created a tiny star for a few nanoseconds.
    — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 9 Aug. 2023

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