How to Use minute hand in a Sentence

minute hand

noun
  • The applied hour and minute hands are in the same color as the hour markers.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 28 Aug. 2025
  • There are the time-only models with simple hour and minute hands that are pure class.
    — Allen Farmelo, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
  • Each is equipped with double movements and two sets of hour and minute hands and seconds hands.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Oct. 2025
  • But the motor that drives the hour and minute hands of the watch hasn’t really changed since then.
    — IEEE Spectrum, 29 Nov. 2023
  • The focus is more on readiness and less on the actual minute hand.
    — Raquel Reichard, Refinery29, 24 Sep. 2025
  • There’s also a compass that uses the hour and minute hands to form the needle.
    — Emily Reed, Outside Online, 5 June 2018
  • The hour and minute hands are in pink gold with a satin brushed finish and black SLN.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Even Glinda’s bubble looks like a gadget on a clock face, moving on an arm like a minute hand.
    — Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 26 Nov. 2025
  • Thread the two together, and glue the minute hand to the dowel and the hour hand to the PVC.
    — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022
  • The newest dive features a bold and stylish color scheme, highlighted by the sunburst face and purple minute hand.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
  • Applied markers appear to float above the dial, complemented by lume-tipped openworked hour and minute hands.
    — Prakhar Khanna, Forbes.com, 27 Aug. 2025
  • The hour and minute hands are skeletonized and filled with green emitting white SLN, while the seconds hand is black with a white tip.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 1 May 2025
  • At 24 years old, the movement-as-minute hand remains a design gesture no one has truly replicated.
    — Thor Svaboe, Robb Report, 9 Sep. 2025
  • The hour and minute hands feature luminescent tips for day and night visibility.
    — Rachel Fletcher, Architectural Digest, 9 Oct. 2024
  • The hour and minute hands are made of openworked black gold with white Super-LumiNova and white tips.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The indices and hour and minute hands are treated with Super-Luminova.
    — Nancy Olson, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2023
  • Chronograph seconds and minute hands are curved slightly downward for more accurate readings of the indexes.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 30 June 2023
  • The hour can be changed without affecting the movement of the minute hand, thanks to a device that moves it forward or backward in increments of one hour.
    — Carol Besler, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
  • The lotus flower is a symbol of the brand, and its shape is also reflected in the eccentric hour and minute hands, which are meant to look like the blossom.
    — Justin Fenner, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The unique styling is enhanced by the flexible minute hand, which expands and changes shape according to its position on the oblong dial.
    — Cait Bazemore, Robb Report, 28 Nov. 2022
  • The dial is completed with gray hour and minute hands topped with Superluminova.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 24 July 2025
  • This vibrant detail emulates the team’s car for the season and appears on the chronograph second hand, the chronograph minute hand and the top right pusher.
    — Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 12 May 2022
  • The index plots and hour/minute hands glow with matching blue Super-LumiNova.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 1 Aug. 2023
  • The independently adjustable minute hand allows for precise adjustment of the minutes across all time zones.
    — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 19 Jan. 2026
  • The hour and minute hands are also faceted and filled with white X1 Super-LumiNova.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 4 June 2025
  • Hands are treated with Super-LumiNova that glows blue on the hour and seconds hands, green on the minute hand and white to cyan on the seconds hand.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 11 Mar. 2022
  • The indexes and hour and minute hands are coated with a yellow-green Super-LumiNova.
    — Roberta Naas, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
  • With the clockwise motion of the minute hand, these graduations faded and reappeared on the screen in time with the ticking of the clock sample that loops the LP.
    — Rachel Narozniak, Billboard, 10 Oct. 2022
  • This theory’s detractors point out that minute hands on clocks were only introduced in the late 1500s and became common even later.
    — Merrill Fabry, Time, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Since then, the bulletin's board has determined when the clock's minute hand will move, usually to draw attention to worldwide crises that, the board believes, threaten the survival of the human species.
    — The Washington Post, AL.com, 25 Jan. 2018

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