We found over 1000 examples of how to use second in an English sentence.
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| 1. | Not until after they had passed beyond the best work of the First Men in science and philosophy did the Second Men discover the remains of the great stone library in Siberia. A party of engineers happened upon it while they were preparing to sink a shaft for subterranean energy. The tablets were broken, disordered, weathered. Little by little, however, they were reconstructed and interpreted, with the aid of the pictorial dictionary. The finds were of extreme interest to the Second Men, but not in the manner which the Siberian party had intended, not as a store of scientific and philosophic truth, but as a vivid historical document. The view of the universe which the tablets recorded was both too naïve and too artificial; but the insight which they afforded into the mind of the earlier species was invaluable. So little of the old world had survived the volcanic epoch that the Second Men had failed hitherto to get a clear picture of their predecessors. | |
| 2. | We can travel through time. And we do at the remarkable rate of one second per second. | |
| 3. | Day by day and month by month, Internet technology is growing. Actually, make that second by second and minute by minute. | |
| 4. | Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. | |
| 5. | We can travel through time. And we do it with an incredible rate of one second per second. | |
| 6. | For a second, just a second, I thought that you really loved me, but I was wrong. | |
| 7. | When one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body simultaneously exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body. | |
| 8. | Spinoza saw, and I think with great profundity, that if a falling stone could reason, it would think, "I want to fall at the rate of thirty-two feet per second per second." Free will for us—that is, when we feel desire, when we are conscious of wanting to do what we do—may be even for us an illusion. | |
| 9. | The Democratic Republic of Congo is the largest country in the Congo Basin and home to a massive and largely inaccessible rainforest that is Earth’s second largest reservoir of carbon in vegetation, second only to the Amazon Basin rainforest. | |
| 10. | After learning a second language, Tom began to second guess prepositions in his own tongue. | |
| 11. | But he said again: Rightly is his name called Jacob; for he hath supplanted me lo this second time: My birthright he took away before, and now this second time he hath stolen away my blessing. And again he said to his father: Hast thou not reserved me also a blessing? | |
| 12. | It's estimated that the number of speakers in the world is between 450 to 500 million, being the second mother tongue most spoken after Mandarin Chinese, and the third if we count those who speak it as a second language. | |
| 13. | "Hey mate! You got a second?" "Yes, certainly. But since that second is now up, I shall have to ask you to make yourself scarce. I have a lot to do!" | |
| 14. | "Wait a second." "I don't have a second." | |
| 15. | Everyone deserves a second chance. | |
| 16. | The second half of a man's life is made up of nothing but the habits he has acquired during the first half. | |
| 17. | In general, little is known about nonlinear second order differential equations. | |
| 18. | Your second button is coming off. | |
| 19. | After all the trouble we went to in coming up with that project, it only took them a second to shoot it down in the meeting. | |
| 20. | He is second to none when it comes to debating. | |
| 21. | Yokohama is the second largest city in Japan. | |
| 22. | Yokohama is the city in Japan with the second largest population. | |
| 23. | As far as English is concerned, she is second to none in her class. | |
| 24. | Yamada is second to none in English in his class. | |
| 25. | He is second to none in English in his class. |