How to use "second" in a sentence

So I wait for the second voice

I wait, but tonight the second voice doesn't come

In the first days, the second voice always came

The second plan is to try and lift the boulder using some of my equipment

6.00 pm My second night in the canyon is moving closer

This time, my second voice tells me not to urinate on the ground.

During the second half of the night, I have visions of myself as a child

Stay calm, says the second.

There is a second loud noise

A second man gets out of the helicopter and they help me inside

'Where are we going?' I ask the second man.

Jenny stopped singing for a second or two, and the others in the group stopped playing

He put his arms round me for a second, then went off to play with Sue again.

At this second appearing to take the oath of the presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first

Slinkton turned quickly away from us for a second and put his hand to his mouth

The manager, Walter Purkiss, and his wife were in their bedroom on the second floor

It is only twelve minutes' walk from Berner Street to Mitre Square, where the second murder happened

A second letter of September 27th was signed 'Yours truly, Jack the Ripper'

Valjean looked around the room, thinking for a second of making his escape

The beggar raised his face and stared hard at Valjean for just a second, then quickly bowed his head

Although he had only seen the beggar's face for a second, it had seemed strangely familiar.

'But for a second, there was something about the beggars eyes that reminded me of Javert

She looked up when Marius passed for the second time, and gave him a casual glance

A second later she looked away and Marius walked on but, in a strange way, he knew his life had changed

Towards the end of the second week, while Marius was sitting in his usual place, he looked up from his book

The second killed a deaf old woman who was trying to shut her window.

Enjolras, who was the leader of the rebels, organized the building of a second barricade and the manufacture of bullets from melted silver

When a second cannon was moved into position next to the first, they knew that the end was near.

When Valjean did not appear for the second evening, Cosette sent a servant to his house to ask if he was well

Madeleine! And second, he did not kill Javert because Javert killed himself

He climbs up the ladder in a second, and we run into the main room of the bank.

All he has to do is make her hold it for a second

She's going to be here in a second."

For a second he does not know where he is

She pauses for a second, and he sees her hands shake

Nick looks at her for a second and then turns and runs back to the door.

For a second only Nick waits

For a second he does not know what to say, but he knows what to do, and he pulls his hand away and moves to the door

For a second she is silent, but then she speaks again, though this time her voice is hard and angry

For a second the taste is foul

On the second day he said no again

He lives alone on the second floor in the east wing

It is the second week of April, and spring is certainly here

He could cut and shuffle the deck like he had eight arms instead of two, and he could remember every card he saw in a split second and could use his fingers and little tricks to put the cards where he wanted them in the deck.

For a moment Hank Wynn stops, and maybe there is a second where he believes poor Jimmy Lane

But then the second is over, and he kicks Jimmy in the back, and Jimmy falls into the pool with a scream.

The little chip under her skin lit up for a second, showing how many energy units she had left

Sala and Cham stepped off the walkway near their apartment blocks, and as they did so, someone knocked Sala's elbow, then held her arm for a second.

There was a second of silence.

"Last night, you said it was just to get the second pod experience!"

"From her brother?" Cham paused for a second, then laughed

Give that to your grandmother." For a second, the woman moved a little closer

After a second, Leti agreed

I can't believe how fresh the air is and the sky is just..." At last, he paused for a second.

For a second, Cham looked apologetic

And I was going there as the second wife of Maxim de Winter.

They all said that Maxim had married his young, second wife within a year of Rebecca's death

Meanwhile, the sky grew darker by the second; massive storm clouds, like the clenched fists of celestial giants, squeezed the last light out of the day

From that, she moved up through a series of similar positions in larger lounges, then in small showrooms that seated four or five hundred in second-rate hotels with limited show budgets

Less than ten minutes later, when the curtains opened again, the mirrors had been taken away, and the stage had been transformed into an ice rink; the second production number was done on skates against a winter backdrop so real that it made Elliot shiver.

Scraps of music, split-second flashes of disc jockeys' chatter, single words from different somber-voiced newscasters, and fragments of commercial jingles blended in a cacophonous jumble of meaningless sound

Although no second show was scheduled this evening, as would be the case every night henceforth, busboys and waitresses were busily clearing tables, resetting them with fresh linen and silverware for the following night's eight o'clock performance.

The room was growing colder by the second.

The second week, four nights

As Elliot rinsed the second snifter and placed it in the rack, Tina said, "You do that very well."

Perhaps it was too soon to tell for sure, but he was beginning to think that fate, in an uncharacteristic flush of generosity, had given him a second chance at happiness.

When he and Tina finished dessert, Elliot poured second cups of coffee

A second man appeared behind the first

But even as Tina looked from Elliot to the fire, before all of the shingles had fallen back to earth, a second explosion slammed through the house, and a billowing cloud of flame roared from one end of the structure to the other, bursting those few windows that had miraculously survived the first blast.

"On second thought..

After a second of surprised relief, everyone in the diner applauded the old fellow.

Split-second blasts of music, commercials, and disc jockeys' voices blared senselessly out of the speakers.

The air inside the car was bitterly cold and growing colder by the second.

The first sporting-goods dealer did not carry the maps, and although the second usually had them, it was currently sold out

He refolded the first map as she unfolded the second.

"Wait a second," she said.

This was his second pill since he'd gotten out of bed just three and a half hours ago, but he still felt edgy.

The second gate was one and a half miles past the first, on a short length of straightaway, just over the brow of a hill

The book you now hold in your hands - assuming that you are not quadridexterous and holding it with your feet - was the second book I wrote under the pen name Leigh Nichols

The second draft was worse

So he is praised for being merely incompetent and not also drunk, and he is given a second chance

A second writer, a surly fellow, believed that he would soon be a famous director and informed us of this at every opportunity

The second was my script of another book which, in a fit of frustration at this entire process, I wrote in three days after the assigned writer's final - and umpteenth - draft was deemed inadequate

The second network head is no longer in the business

'The first from Pondicherry in India, the second from Dundee in Scotland and the third from East London,' I answered

'For one ten-millionth of a second, that ashtray has been completely disintegrated

The whole thing lasted less than a second.

There was a second telephone booth in the corner

It was only after the accident that I discovered he had put a second set of the control switches inside the disintegration booth, so that he could use himself as the object of the experiment.

During a second experiment yesterday, a fly must have got into the disintegrator'

the thing's body shook for a second and then lay still.

The hammer came down a second time.

Why, that brings it to the same second almost!'

And all the time he was keeping a second family - a former servant, and five children! What a terrible shock to his wife and daughter.'

I thought of Miss Marple's churchwarden with his second secret family

I opened the second:

The second possibility is, of course, that he was sitting at the desk writing a note, but it must have been a different note from the one that was found

I gave her the second anonymous letter I had received

That night, too, there was another sudden cloud of gas from the distant planet as a second missile started on its way to Earth from Mars, just under twenty-four hours after the first one

But no one suspected the truth, that the Martians had fired missiles, which were now rushing towards us at a speed of many kilometres a second across the great emptiness of space.

This was the second cylinder.

I learned that they were shooting into the wood in which the second cylinder had fallen

Then suddenly, the trees in the wood ahead of me were pushed to the side and a second enormous tripod appeared, rushing, as it seemed, straight towards me

At the sight of this second machine I panicked completely

They all went down in a second

Then the tripod turned and walked away towards where the second cylinder lay.

The fallen Martian used its voice, and immediately a second one answered it, appearing over the trees to the south

All of the second shells missed the Martian on the ground and, immediately.

For the second time that day the girl showed her courage

It went straight towards a second Martian, and was within a hundred metres of it when the Heat-Rav hit it

That second start was the most foolish thing I ever did

The arrival of a second fighting-machine made us move back out of the kitchen into the hall, because we were afraid that from that height the Martian might see us through the hole

But afterwards, during the second day, I was able to consider our position clearly

Far away, through a space in the trees, I saw a second Martian fighting-machine, as unmoving as the first, standing in the park near the Zoo

He had eleven dog fights on the first day and fourteen on the second day

Our second rainy day was the same as the first

'Hei Mercy.' And the door opened to show the face of Connie, her big sister, six years older, and now heavy with her second child

My sister Laura is the daughter of her second marriage

'She wrote this to her second husband, Mr Philip Fairlie, when he was in London on business

I arrived at Limmeridge House on the second of November

The date of the wedding is the twenty-second of December of this year

She's in the guest room on the second floor.'

The second wave, which began in the 1960s, was about women's fight for freedom

The third wave, which began in the 1990s, continues the work of second-wave feminism

The second wave of feminism arrived in the middle of the 20th century

She had a baby in 2018 and was only the second prime minister to have a baby while she was in the job