How to Use minute hand in a Sentence

minute hand

noun

• Thread the two together, and glue the minute hand to the dowel and the hour hand to the PVC.
  — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022
• There’s also a compass that uses the hour and minute hands to form the needle.
  — Emily Reed, Outside Online, 5 June 2018
• With the clockwise motion of the minute hand, these graduations faded and reappeared on the screen in time with the ticking of the clock sample that loops the LP.
  — Rachel Narozniak, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2022
• Hands are treated with Super-LumiNova that glows blue on the hour and seconds hands, green on the minute hand and white to cyan on the seconds hand.
  — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2022
• The newest dive features a bold and stylish color scheme, highlighted by the sunburst face and purple minute hand.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• The hour can be changed without affecting the movement of the minute hand, thanks to a device that moves it forward or backward in increments of one hour.
  — Carol Besler, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• This vibrant detail emulates the team’s car for the season and appears on the chronograph second hand, the chronograph minute hand and the top right pusher.
  — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 May 2022
• The indices and hour and minute hands are treated with Super-Luminova.
  — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
• The unique styling is enhanced by the flexible minute hand, which expands and changes shape according to its position on the oblong dial.
  — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022
• Since then, the bulletin's board has determined when the clock's minute hand will move, usually to draw attention to worldwide crises that, the board believes, threaten the survival of the human species.
  — The Washington Post, AL.com, 25 Jan. 2018
• In fact, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world was arguably perched most precariously on the precipice of nuclear war, the infamous minute hand didn’t move a bit.
  — Rachel Feltman, Popular Science, 23 Jan. 2020
• This theory’s detractors point out that minute hands on clocks were only introduced in the late 1500s and became common even later.
  — Merrill Fabry, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
• Available in four sizes ranging from 36 mm to 46 mm, the current, more modern Superocean retains many of those additions (the high-contrast minute scale, the square minute hand) but brings back the second hand.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 12 July 2022
• Socolow is right that anti-scientific impulses in the United States and elsewhere are an alarming feature of today's world and perhaps indeed good reason to move the doomsday minute hand closer to midnight.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Mar. 2023
• Its designers reached back in time to before the Industrial Revolution, when the minute hand was introduced, to settle on something more timeless (think sundials and old clock towers).
  — Will Palmer, Outside Online, 26 Oct. 2021
• The clock’s minute hand ticked back and forth over the decades, following the development of even more destructive hydrogen bombs, cases of nuclear false alarms, and the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, perhaps the most dangerous standoff in history.
  — Ramin Skibba, Wired, 19 Jan. 2022

Last Updated: 14 Nov 2024