How to Use microsecond in a Sentence

microsecond

noun

• 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 next step in the build required Keegan to look down for just a microsecond.
  — August Cole, Wired, 5 June 2020
• In the very first microseconds of the Big Bang, something strange happened.
  — Darren Orf, Popular Mechanics, 13 July 2023
• Once this whole process takes place — in a matter of microseconds — the ad appears.
  — Tribune News Service, oregonlive, 29 Dec. 2019
• 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
• Time on the moon moves 58.7 microseconds, or millionths of a second, faster each day than on Earth, according to the White House memo.
  — Nik Popli, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
• 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
• The full snaps were completed in just 300 microseconds.
  — Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 7 Mar. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The shift of mass would lengthen days by 0.06 microsecond, scientists said.
  — Smriti Rao, Discover Magazine, 2 Mar. 2010
• The difference is slight: 58.7 microseconds per Earth day.
  — George Petras, USA TODAY, 23 Apr. 2024
• In a Quake or Doom game, everything has to be perfect—every microsecond.
  — Chris Morris, Fortune, 12 Aug. 2019
• Otherwise that processing would have to happen in the brain, at a cost of precious microseconds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 Sep. 2021
• 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
• Blain raced to Schriever in his Ford pickup and found that the constellation’s timing was off by about 13 microseconds.
  — Garrett M. Graff, WIRED, 26 June 2018
• At the moment, that happens after about ten microseconds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 29 June 2023
• 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
• 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
• If anything, that fade better happen and that silence better be a microsecond before the next joint.
  — Dalton Ross, EW.com, 28 June 2023
• Every finger flick, every hip thrust, every hair flip was choreographed to the microsecond.
  — August Brown, Los Angeles Times, 17 Apr. 2023
• Then his long, off-balance throw across the diamond hit the first baseman’s glove, improbably, a microsecond before Lee May could reach the bag.
  — Nr Editors, National Review, 20 Oct. 2023
• 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
• 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, 14 Nov. 2018
• At the time, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said the change would address the head start of a few microseconds that can amount to a market advantage.
  — Eric Morath, WSJ, 16 Jan. 2020
• Relative to the Earth, time moves more quickly on the Moon – 58.7 microseconds faster each day – because of the weaker gravitational pull.
  — Richard Windsor, The Week Uk, theweek, 4 Apr. 2024
• Time moves quicker on the moon Time moves quicker (by 58.7 microseconds) every day on the moon relative to Earth because of the different gravitational field strength on the moon, the memo said.
  — Sarah Al-Arshani, USA TODAY, 3 Apr. 2024
• Push it a microsecond earlier or later, and the results are different.
  — Nick Sortal, miamiherald, 26 Dec. 2017
• With months of Cray time, Kollman and Duan followed their little protein for a billion femtoseconds – which is just one microsecond.
  — Oliver Morton, WIRED, 1 July 2001

Last Updated: 15 Nov 2024