within minutes
idiom
: within a very short amount of time
We called an ambulance and it arrived within minutes.
Examples of within minutes in a Sentence
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The couple’s combined 343 million Instagram followers shot up millions of likes on the pictures within minutes.
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Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 May 2024
The tensions have been turned up a few notches within minutes as wild threats were fired off with the latest haymakers thrown in each other’s direction.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 May 2024
Firefighters were able to extinguished the flames within minutes.
—Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
Authorities say Chinese money laundering organizations have grown in recent years, with offenders able to wash dirty money and clean it within minutes, thanks to the help of new technology.
—David Spunt, Fox News, 1 May 2024
Oceanside firefighters were on the scene within minutes, soon followed by crews from Vista, Carlsbad and several other agencies.
—San Diego Union Tribune, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2024
Advertisement Oceanside firefighters were on the scene within minutes, soon followed by crews from Vista, Carlsbad and several other agencies.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
The Leptospira bacteria can die within minutes in the dry heat and freezing cold, Quinn said.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2024
But within minutes of the story’s publication, readers took to the comments section to post their own memories of having witnessed the phenomenon.
—Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
Jordan Moreau, Variety, 9 May 2024
The tensions have been turned up a few notches within minutes as wild threats were fired off with the latest haymakers thrown in each other’s direction.
—Michael Saponara, Billboard, 4 May 2024
Firefighters were able to extinguished the flames within minutes.
—Omar Rodríguez Ortiz, Miami Herald, 2 May 2024
Authorities say Chinese money laundering organizations have grown in recent years, with offenders able to wash dirty money and clean it within minutes, thanks to the help of new technology.
—David Spunt, Fox News, 1 May 2024
Oceanside firefighters were on the scene within minutes, soon followed by crews from Vista, Carlsbad and several other agencies.
—San Diego Union Tribune, Orange County Register, 26 Apr. 2024
Advertisement Oceanside firefighters were on the scene within minutes, soon followed by crews from Vista, Carlsbad and several other agencies.
—Teri Figueroa, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Apr. 2024
The Leptospira bacteria can die within minutes in the dry heat and freezing cold, Quinn said.
—Louis Casiano, Fox News, 18 Apr. 2024
But within minutes of the story’s publication, readers took to the comments section to post their own memories of having witnessed the phenomenon.
—Phoebe Zerwick, New York Times, 10 Apr. 2024
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“Within minutes.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/within%20minutes. Accessed 12 May. 2024.
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