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
• And honk your horn if the car in front of you hesitates for a millisecond.
  — Lois K. Solomon, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Jan. 2022
• 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
• For now, the title of each video indicates down to the millisecond what time the clips start.
  — Scott MacFarlane, CBS News, 20 Dec. 2023
• 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
• As the name implies, these bursts of radio waves last just a millisecond or two.
  — Yvette Cendes, Discover Magazine, 6 Feb. 2019
• 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
• Their planning has fallen apart, and the death toll is ramping up by the millisecond.
  — Noel Sharkey, Scientific American, 1 Feb. 2020
• 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
• In that window, a quarterback might have a millisecond to thread a pass.
  — Emmanuel Morgan, New York Times, 14 Jan. 2023
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• The leafy bough was followed a millisecond later by a squirrel.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 30 May 2022
• 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
• Most of the changes have revolved around the milliseconds between the characters firing their blasters.
  — Alex Horton, Washington Post, 13 Nov. 2019
• El Camino picks up that same millisecond, after a cameo-ghost prologue.
  — Darren Franich, EW.com, 11 Oct. 2019
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Why would a position held for a millisecond during a sprint of a dance matter?
  — New York Times, 11 May 2021
• 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
• Bose is stating that the QCs can recognize and block noise within a fraction of a millisecond.
  — Jacob Krol, CNN Underscored, 10 Sep. 2020
• But on third down, the quarterback hesitated for one millisecond longer, dodging the rush, and let the ball fly.
  — Dallas News, 22 Nov. 2022
• The agency could do a license check in less than a minute online or in milliseconds if the process is automated.
  — Marshall Allen, ProPublica, 19 July 2019
• The relay decides whether to trip a circuit or take other actions in 1 to 2 milliseconds.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 27 May 2023
• At home, on the periphery of a couple of cell towers, pings stretched to 90 milliseconds, and loading times also climbed.
  — Mark Hachman, PCWorld, 30 Oct. 2019
• Lasting just a millisecond, these blasts shoot out as much energy in radio waves as the sun emits over a full 30 seconds.
  — Eric Betz, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2020

Last Updated: 28 May 2024