How to use "seconds" in a sentence

In seconds, the water can throw you against the canyon walls and kill you

2.45 pm All this happens in a couple of seconds

Without stopping to think, I take the water bottle from my bag and drink a third of it in five seconds.

I fill my bottle and drink one litre in a few seconds

I can't walk straight, I can't think for more than a few seconds, and I'm losing blood, fast.

Within seconds, the soldiers had left the barricade, leaving their dead and wounded behind, and were running into the darkness at the far end of the street.

He waited for a few seconds to see Marius's reaction.

And for a few seconds there is only the sound of Beethoven as the music begins to reach its molto allegro.

Miss Lee then stabbed Mr Dawson in the neck with the scissors, and he died in seconds due to loss of blood

For a few seconds she walks and then turns back to look at the tube train

What's more, there was a force field at the city boundary that was impossible to cross: there were alarms there that sensed your wrist chip before you even got close, and then government agents appeared in seconds to arrest you

For several seconds she was certain that she could feel the switch straining under her fingertip as it tried to pop on.

For a few seconds the silence was split by an electronic squeal as sharp as an ax blade

She intended to determine if the words about Danny had been previously programmed to print out on her machine or if they had been sent to her just seconds ago by someone at another computer in another office in the hotel's elaborately networked series of workstations.

All the talk about death and fear and madness and pain seemed to have taken place further back in the past than a mere few seconds ago

The entire battle had taken less than ten seconds.

It rang three more times during the ten seconds that she took to reach the front door.

In two seconds, it was in his bloodstream, and the first seizure hit his heart.

In a few seconds, the medium would evaporate too, leaving nothing unusual to arouse the initial attending physician's suspicion.

For a few seconds they paused, touching each other briefly, gathering their courage.

If we stop for more than a couple of seconds, it'll show up on their receiver, and they might get suspicious."

A few seconds later, the white sedan raced into the intersection.

Over the howling of the wind, another sound arose, and Tina needed a few seconds to identify it.

A few seconds after midnight the crowd in the Chertsey Road, Woking, saw a star fall from the sky into the woods to the north-west

In five seconds, we had the spoon

The Count's face - which had been happy a few seconds before - was suddenly full of fear! He stood up and quickly left the theatre