How To Use Split second In A Sentence
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In the split second that their gazes locked, that same prickly sensation consumed his mind as if the blood flow to his brain had suddenly been cut off.
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When sprinters are jostling for position races are won and lost in a split second.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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A split second after touchdown we filed out as fast as possible to cut the risk of a rocket attack.
The Sun
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Thus do we transvaluate all values, translating the common speech of men into the vocabulary of madmen, calling "clean" a mechanism which, in a split second, can incinerate millions and transform God's handiwork, "all created equal," into cinders all cremated equal.
Wide, Wide World
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I only saw the man for a split second as he ran past.
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Secondly, fighters can choose to block incoming blows outright or parry them, providing a split second or two to get in a quick counterpunch.
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Just as he did so, a black blur zinged through the air where his head had been a split second before.
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Coals flashed Marcus a grin, so full of perfectly capped teeth, so taut at the lips, so fleshy at the gum line that for a split second the image of a shark in an expensive wool suit was unavoidable.
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The defender launches his pre-emptive counter-attack a split second after the attacker prepares to strike.
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For a split second, ugly scenes try to squeeze into my brain: planes nosediving, twirling, horrific screeching, explosions on impact.
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For a split second, I marvelled at his spirited attitude before it dawned on me that he was actually a tourist.
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Her gaze met Michael's for a split second.
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In a split second the opposite hand rapidly sweeps the length of the tool catching the ants in a jumbled mass between thumb and forefinger.
Cultural Anthropology
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He caught me with a corking right upper cut - I didn't know whether I was in Manchester or Las Vegas for a split second.
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I may be a saddo living in the past, but as my father, an archaeologist, always said, the future is unknown, the present is a mere split second, we really only have the past to look at.
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In that split second Delaney saw the thing in its centre, flung like a whirling gingerbread man right over a container.
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For a split second in the dim light he made out the outline of a face, eyes wide, curly-haired, delicate.
DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
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The split second that its ringing was heard in the classroom, the students immediately turned forward like they were magnetized or something.
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He suggested that in the first split second after the beginning, the vacuum of the Universe existed in a highly energetic state, as allowed by the quantum rules, but unstable.
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Her gaze met Michael's for a split second.
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Wooden clubs meet and bamboo poles clatter as with split second accuracy, the exponents display their skill in the centuries old martial art form.
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The CCO, when properly sighted, provides an added measure of accuracy in a reflexive fire environment where a split second is all it takes to decide between life and death.
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They have to make a call in a split second.
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With a split second to make the choice, you decide to complete the manoeuvre.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sometimes, people say things that are so stupid your brain skips for a split second trying to make sense of it.
Think Progress » Chris Matthews on Obama during SOTU: ‘You know, I forgot he was black tonight for an hour.’
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A split second after touchdown we filed out as fast as possible to cut the risk of a rocket attack.
The Sun
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In a split second, the vehicle moved to the side of the road before hitting the kerb and going off the carriageway, smashing through a fence and down an embankment.
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I've hunted long enough to becareful of my target and that split second can mean success of failure.
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The rozzers showed up a split second later en masse (two cars and a van) and rang the loud neighbour's doorbell.
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When a pianist actually looks at the damper action while pedaling, or watches the hammers strike the string for only a split second, her body will shift to a more kinesthetic, intuitive and efficient mode.
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They speed down one narrow side street, turn abruptly, then hurtle down another, but these maneuvers are not enough for them to elude her pursuers; she can see their headlights in the side-view mirrors, vanishing as they round a corner, only to reappear a split second later.
William and Kate
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But in the split second that her head spun around to verify what Thames told her, Sam's right leg shot up in a scissors kick.
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When a pianist actually looks at the damper action while pedaling, or watches the hammers strike the string for only a split second, her body will shift to a more kinesthetic, intuitive and efficient mode.
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For a split second the two men hesitated.
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Obviously with the previous example of a high speed race, this can mean the player colliding straight into buildings or other obstacles that weren't there a split second before and have seemingly "teleported" into place before the player's very eyes.
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As you chuck it to one of your receivers or are playing defense on the thrown ball, the pigskin almost seems to disappear for a split second.
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In that split second of my unleashing the wrath of God on this poor soul, she became covered with copious body hair, grew fangs and proceeded to turn into Mrs. Jekyll.
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In a split second the opposite hand rapidly sweeps the length of the tool catching the ants in a jumbled mass between thumb and forefinger.
Cultural Anthropology
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In that split second I experienced a sudden flashback.
Times, Sunday Times
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With a burst of intense white light, the entire hallway was illuminated for a split second.
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Bombs in the magazine detonate in chain reaction in a split second.
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The kids only stopped for a split second, slightly alarmed by the sudden outburst of noise.
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In a split second Jerome, whose anger had begun to build, flashed out his gun and fired, but Selby dropped to one knee and fired his gun, winging him.
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Or from a Zen perspective, you're trying to reach that state of mushin where you are in total focus and concentration, where the mind and body have become one (which is also illustrated in "kime" where you unlock your ki/chi in a split second, but I digress yet again).
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It may be a split second of indecision at a roundabout, a moment's inattention while pulling out of a parking space, a failure to spot another driver signalling.
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Foster used his speed to make the touchdown a split second before the ball crossed the deadball line.
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A split second later, she was rewarded by a splash of warm - almost hot - liquid.
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I only saw the man for a split second as he ran past.
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On the night of January 3, 1935, the puddlers on Form B-1, at the upstream edge of the dam adjacent to the Arizona cliffside, heard this sinister alarum a split second before a full bucket came careening over the edge of the form.
Colossus
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Cavendish clenched his fists and smiled as he crossed the line a split second in front of runner-up Tyler Farrar of the United States and third-place finisher Romain Feillu of France.
Cavendish ices Tour de France stage victory; Cancellara leads
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The truck bucked violently as the shock wave slammed against it, and Ian was pelted with small stones and dust, first from behind, then a split second later from the opposite direction.
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He was just a split second from death as the contact points moved closer together - and he thrust his fingers between them.
The Sun
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For a split second the two men hesitated.
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Armstrong followed his move a split second later, motoring around the others and up behind Beloki as if he were being winched out of a ditch.
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It's a split second that can make the difference.
The Sun
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Or at least' --- and he paused for a split second to punctuate his sentence with a smirk --- `as better as she'll ever be.
LOSING IT
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For a split second, Constance failed to realise that he had released his grip on her.
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The life of the green oak tortrix caterpillar is one that is ruled by split second timing.
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For a split second they sat facing one another, frozen in a silence like the silence between lightning and the thunderclap.
GRACE
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It only takes a split second for him to act on this.
The Sun
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It seems so cruel that so many lives could be wiped out in just a split second.
Times, Sunday Times
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I only saw the man for a split second as he ran past.
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For a split second, I thought about ignoring the call, but something compelled me to answer.
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Her gaze met Michael's for a split second.
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I only saw the man for a split second as he ran past.
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For a split second I was taken aback.
Times, Sunday Times
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It only takes a split second for the whole of the chalk edge they are lying on to split away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Police marksmen are having to make more and more split second decisions on whether to shoot an apparently armed person to protect the public.
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It was just a split second and the door flew open,' he said.
Times, Sunday Times
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One minute, he was staring off into outer space with a dreamy smile on his face and a split second afterward, he was tensed up with a bleak, grim expression.
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For a split second utter confusion distracted me from my misery.
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There's one section of the story where a character gets taken over by a demon and, to illustrate it, they have that character's voice slow down for a split second, like an audio tape getting chewed up in the machine.
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Their eyes met for a split second .
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Agility is multidirectional speed, or the ability to stop, react, change direction, and start again, all in a split second.
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I only saw the man for a split second as he ran past.
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When sprinters are jostling for position races are won and lost in a split second.
FRANKIE: The Autobiography of Frankie Dettori
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In that split second I experienced a sudden flashback.
Times, Sunday Times
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He did gag for a split second, but that stopped once a slurp of wine flushed his throat.
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His smile returned with a degree of warmth that convinced me for a split second that it had never absented itself.
Crossed
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A ear-splitting neigh jolted him back to his senses, and a sudden flash of white shot towards him, ducking underwater for a split second to lift him up beneath it.
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Mari 's bewilderment lasted only a split second longer.
THE WHITE DOVE
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As the glaring bright light blinded us for a split second, we heard a sickening metal screech as the semi sideswiped Mom's car and just barely missed doing the same to mine.
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For a split second, the noise that had been rising from stadium to sky descended from sky to stadium.
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In a split second, her crew had to summon every ounce of leadership, courage and training they had ever known to rescue shipmates and help keep their ship afloat.
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For a split second there, I had this great fantasy that you were clipping the 'wiper' to a clay pigeon thrower and we were going to see some fun target pratice!
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Adam looked at Evangeline, her voice was level but in her eyes, for a split second, he could see that there was fear buried in that memory.
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A split second after touchdown we filed out as fast as possible to cut the risk of a rocket attack.
The Sun
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Mari 's bewilderment lasted only a split second longer.
THE WHITE DOVE
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For a split second he could see the tree that he had pictured in his mind.
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I've coped with it well but there are certain moments that trigger memories, for just a split second.
The Sun
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It was a split second decision that seems to have stuck with us, but I do feel as though the name grows truer with age.
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For a split second the two men hesitated.
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In a split second all eyes turned eastward and there, at the end of Telescope Point, was the white sail barely visible as it competed with the white foam of the breakers.
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For a split second there was a flashback to that night she'd first come into my room: that predatory slink, as fluid as oil on water, and seeing her now was a horrible reminder of what'd happened to her.
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Or at least' --- and he paused for a split second to punctuate his sentence with a smirk --- `as better as she'll ever be.
LOSING IT
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But in the split second that her head spun around to verify what Thames told her, Sam's right leg shot up in a scissors kick.
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Old memories returned to her in that split second, followed by poignant smells and visions a past where her world was nothing less than a fairy tale.
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In that split second Graham knew he had won.
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The choreography is very modern and athletic but the females look unsure when doing various lifts, you can see the split second hesitation going into each lift.
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Using a stroboscope, which can flash 100 times a second or more, single-image photographs can capture every split second of high-speed maneuvers such as figure skating jumps.
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It was a split second before the piercing sound broke the air.
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As split second shots of her shoot across the screen, we see an enigmatic, dark-haired figure whisked to and fro before our eyes, like a lost ghost in the machine.
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I only saw the man for a split second as he ran past.
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Do these people have any idea what a split second can do?
The Sun
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It was a split second decision that seems to have stuck with us, but I do feel as though the name grows truer with age.
Mike Ragogna: Jill Scott's Video Exclusive, Plus Chatting With The Wombats and The Postelles, and More
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He lifted up his cobalt eyes to his friend for only a split second and then glanced back down.
