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Example sentences for "five minutes"

  • Fancy hastened onward, and in five minutes entered a gate, which shed upon her toes a flood of water-drops as she opened it.

  • Five minutes later a policeman was looking at me.

  • No sooner was breakfast over (and it was over almost as quickly as it takes to tell), than the tired heads began to nod and droop, and in five minutes half of us were sound asleep.

  • They came last night at five minutes to twelve.

  • We crawled under the wire fence into the deer park at five minutes to twelve.

  • In five minutes I knew how old he was, and where he was raised, and that what he wanted more than anything on earth was a little farmhouse with chickens and a cow.

  • As well you know, sir, the last train up leaves Wentfield Station at five minutes to nine, and so the pore young lady couldn't get back that night.

  • Ten minutes to get there, five minutes to deliver his message at the police station (if the Chief's people made their headquarters there), and ten minutes to get back if they had a car.

  • In five minutes, ten at the outside, he must emerge again--as Jimmie Dale.

  • Twenty-five minutes was so little that for an instant the temptation was strong upon him to sacrifice, rather than any of those precious minutes, the Magpie instead!

  • Was it more or less than the twenty-five minutes?

  • But there probably would not be five minutes--and she--if she were found here!

  • One thing is clear, the sun is on the point of setting, it is touching the dome now, the cemetery will be closed in five minutes more.

  • In the Luniere fontis, it would have taken a man a day to disappear, while he would have been devoured in five minutes by the Philippeaux slough.

  • It was evident that his ribs would be broken in five minutes more.

  • A platoon of the National Guard would constitute itself on its own authority a private council of war, and judge and execute a captured insurgent in five minutes.

  • They went about their task in five minutes.

  • With that he put his two blankets upon the floor, lay down upon them, and was sound asleep in five minutes.

  • We have a boat in the river; you can reach it in five minutes.

  • In five minutes more I heard the door of Mrs. Beauly's room softly opened and closed again.

  • The nurse goes back to the sick-room at five minutes to eleven, or thereabouts, and finds that the bad symptoms of the morning have returned in a gravely aggravated form.

  • In five minutes more I had accepted the invitation of the bed, and had said farewell to my anxieties and my troubles.

  • He had taken an hour amid his painful mental sufferings to arrive at a place he could have reached in five minutes.

  • Behind them Lucy and Caroline stood making bets, while Blanche, nodding with sleep and dissatisfied about her night, kept asking Vandeuvres at intervals of five minutes if they weren't going soon.

  • Five minutes elapsed, and then the old lady appeared.

  • With a nod he vanished into the bedroom, whence he emerged in five minutes tweed-suited and respectable, as of old.

  • It was twenty-five minutes to twelve, and of course it was clear enough what was in the wind.

  • I could have told you he wasn't hurt, five minutes ago.

  • If he don't come in five minutes,' said John, 'I shall have supper without him.

  • In five minutes' time the chaise was ready, and this good scapegrace in his saddle.

  • I effected my descent in a meadow, near the village of Rehorst, in Holstein, after having run sixteen leagues from France in sixty-five minutes.

  • In thirty-five minutes it had mounted so high that it looked but like the smallest star, and in two hours it had flown a distance of forty-six miles from the place where it was thrown off.

  • The balloon was seen to penetrate the clouds, then to mount still higher, and finally to disappear entirely in five minutes fifty-four seconds from the time when it was set free.

  • The first 9000 words were transmitted in forty-five minutes.

  • The grizzly was killed in five minutes, and so the scheme died.

  • I ran and ran and ran, and in five minutes' running, found I was gaining.

  • At the end of five minutes, I thought we ought to be pretty near the weir, and I looked up.

  • Harry Sykes (commonly called "the Babe") was ushered in five minutes later.

  • I'd have walked into that office and have had that advertisement out of old Jowett in five minutes, I know I would," bragged Tommy.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five minutes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    five cents; five fathom; five feet; five generations; five guineas; five hours; five lambs; five letters; five million; five oceans; five paces; five parts; five per; five pesos; five pieces; five rams; five regiments; five roubles; five seconds; five shekels; five species; five tablespoonfuls; five volumes; five weeks; nautical miles; there seemed