metronome
Example Sentences
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These structures from quantum impracticality, inherent crystalline metronomes might migrate into our future time-keeping technology.
From Scientific American
The golden retriever waits, “his tail a plumy metronome.”
From Washington Post
"They were terrible, because I didn't know what a metronome was, so everything was just out of time. But they gave me a chance and they said they could see potential in me".
From BBC
In adulthood, Tamariz pursued his vocation with monastic focus, not only fine-tuning his technique — at times to the accompaniment of a metronome — but studying philosophy and art history for application to his developing ideas.
From New York Times
Dancers swirl, the artist repeatedly climbs over chairs like a man going nowhere and a group of Man Ray-style metronomes slowly goes out of synchronization.
From Los Angeles Times
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