343 Verbs to Use for the Word minutes

Having waited a minute, or so, to steady myself, I proceeded along the way, Pepper following, quietly.

In this way I took up fifteen minutes, without once speaking a word of my part; nor did I speak a word of it during the whole evening.

Let boil five minutes.

Let cook a few minutes, then add 1 pint of milk; let boil up once.

We had not stopped many minutes, before a well-dressed man, wearing the appearance of authority, having ridden up, we asked him to explain the cause of their violent, and seemingly lawless proceedings.

After spending a few minutes in this way, I chanced to look across the fall, and there stood three sheep quietly observing me.

Put in a buttered baking-dish and bake twenty minutes.

The whole parley had lasted about ten minutes when McDougall came running up with the missing men, released Lawes, and made prisoners of the nearest Americans.

In each case the process occupied not more than six or seven minutes.

So the tramp gave five whole minutes to that work.

Come, we must not lose a minute, for I couldn't fasten the brute very well.

It may have required five minutes to pry open the chest, and the reward was scarcely worth the effort.

Let bake in a quick oven; allow fifteen minutes to the pound.

Aylmer was wandering about the half-dismantled house désoeuvré, with nothing to do, restlessly counting the minutes till two in the afternoon.

'Hold on a minute,' said he, 'you old shellback.

After passing a few minutes in silent, but delightful thought, this excellent, guileless woman knelt and poured out her soul in thanksgivings to the Being, who had surrounded her lot with so many blessings.

"Why did you stay, dear, for nine long years?" He thought a minute.

In making calculations the six hours were taken as six complete hours, and not six hours wanting some minutes.

Let simmer a few minutes and serve hot.

The midshipmen, after breakfast, enjoyed a few minutes on the deck before going below for duty in the engine rooms, the dynamo room, the "stoke hole" and other stations.

If this was a West India v'y'ge, I wouldn't stand a minute about signing the articles; nor should I make much question if the craft was large enough for a common whalin' v'y'ge; but, sealin' is a different business, and one onprofitable hand may make many an onprofitable lay.

Unlike himself, he had been complaining of fatigue, and had seemed out of sorts for a day or two, but we had thought nothing of it; and, after resting a few minutes, he announced himself ready for the road again, but he looked very pale and walked with evident weariness.

Hanna Long, if you could see some of the fellows I got this minute paying attentions to me in New York, you'd lose your mind.

They understood each other so thoroughly and upon all points that Bruno had proposed in his enthusiasm that they would not waste one minute of the night in sleep.

As I was saying, when I glanced at it, it read seven minutes to six.

343 Verbs to Use for the Word  minutes