clock
Example Sentences
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He completed four passes for 24 yards and also scrambled for 26 yards to help Carolina get to the Arizona five-yard line with two seconds left on the clock.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 2026
The clock demurs, making a long, ornamented speech about how the other clocks would think him “too grand” if he became Prof. Ticky.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026
Then, through the cleaning and the preparation and then eventually the service — that’s on a clock because we’ve got other Louies to treat — we confer him his dignity.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 6, 2026
When Kerr crossed the line, the clock showed he was almost eight seconds slower than when running the fastest time ever for the mile in London last month.
From BBC ● Aug. 1, 2026
The slender hands of the clock on the stair wall pointed to 9:25 as we left the dining room that night.
From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom
