The composer used minor seconds sparingly to create tension in the melody.

In the choir rehearsal, the conductor emphasized tuning the major seconds to avoid dissonance.

The melody's expressive quality came from the unexpected augmented seconds between some of its notes.

In late Romantic harmony, composers sometimes used diminished seconds to create subtle chromatic tension between adjacent voices.

The tiny shift measured in parallax seconds allowed astronomers to calculate the star's distance with surprising precision.

He bragged about getting sloppy seconds at the party, which made everyone uncomfortable.

The ship's seconds in command coordinated the evacuation while the captain was incapacitated.

The coach's instructions were ignored in the dying seconds, and the team conceded a heartbreaking goal.

We bought several factory seconds to test whether the minor defects affected performance.

During the observation run, the adaptive optics system delivered images with a sharpness better than 0.1 arc-seconds.