second hand
noun
the hand that indicates the seconds on a clock or watch.
second hands
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pluralof second hand.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A method that’s totally solid and consistent, and great if the only thing in the world you don’t own is a timer or watch with second hands: the Instant Pot.
From Slate ● Jun. 25, 2019
In separate studios, in CBS's modernistic, mid-Manhattan short-wave headquarters, sit a pair of dark-haired, olive-skinned announcers, their eyes on the red second hands of electric clocks.
From Time Magazine Archive
There was a lower house of representatives of employes and a senate made up of representatives of the foremen, overseers, second hands.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was at her side in a fraction of a second, hands on her shoulders, lifting her from the chair, pulling her into his stony embrace.
From "Bone Gap" by Laura Ruby
The fire went back into the bombs, which rose up and into the bellies of planes whose propellers turned backward, like the second hands of the clocks across Dresden, only faster.
From "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer
