Sentences with second
sec·ond
S s - For a few seconds nobody said anything.
- ...the second day of his visit to Delhi.
- The party is still the second strongest in Italy.
- The soil is depleted first by having crops grown in it and second by natural weathering and bacterial action.
- I then went up to Lancaster University and got an upper second.
- There's seconds if you want them.
- It's a new shop selling discounted lines and seconds.
- He shouted to his seconds, 'I did it! I did it!'
- ...Bryan Sutton, who seconded the motion against fox hunting. [VERB noun]
- The Prime Minister seconded the call for discipline in a speech last week. [VERB noun]
- In 1937 he was seconded to the Royal Canadian Air Force in Ottawa as air armament adviser. [be VERB-ed + to]
- The second in line
- Every second Thursday
- A second opportunity
- A second Wagner
- Belonging to the second class
- The second tenors
- The second flute
- He changed into second on the bend
- To take a second helping
- A second Shakespeare
- Every second day
- The second last row
- In North America, electricity is generated at 60 Hz, which means that the electrons move forward, then back again, 60 times in one second.If the power comes from an alternating-current source like in most of today's homes and offices in the United States, the poles will switch places 60 times a second.A second is a unit of time, and one of the sixty parts that a minute is divided into.
- The second house from the corner.
- The second person in the company.
- I have my hair cut every second week.
- second horn; second alto.
- A second Solomon.
- second gear.
- It takes only a second to phone.
- The catcher is batting second.