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Example Sentences
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A safe self-rescue includes being able to tread water for 30 seconds, children being able to float on their back for 60 seconds and swim 15m to exit the water unaided.
From BBC ● Aug. 11, 2026
After scrambling back to catch Vollering, she’d lose contact, and yellow, by 8 seconds.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Thompson was clearly the fastest player going into the 2026 NFL draft after he posted a time of 4.26 seconds in the 40-yard dash, the third-best time ever, at the scouting combine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 9, 2026
You’re off to work in sixty seconds flat.
From Salon ● Aug. 9, 2026
For one or two seconds it was all right.
From "Woodsong" by Gary Paulsen
