The telescope can resolve details down to three seconds of arc under ideal conditions.

The antique clocks in the shop had broken second hands, but their faces were still beautiful.

The surgeon examined the athlete's second joints to assess ligament stability.

After an hour of steady work, I suddenly got a second wind and finished the project ahead of schedule.

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 eerie dissonance between the two notes was caused by a minor second.

The music theorist explained that the diminished second, despite its name, is enharmonically equivalent to a unison in many tuning systems.

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

After missing the deadline, Sam found himself second guessing every choice he'd made that week.