hourglass
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Her subject is sand, and she poses a simple question: Is the sand pouring through the hourglass sitting on the counter before her a liquid or a solid?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 2026
In a dark room, a doctor pointed to an hourglass shape glowing on the ultrasound screen: There was her amniotic sac, funneling into her dilated cervix, and there was their tiny daughter’s foot, dipping out.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the screams of our lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Josephina Finch from Canterbury said she wanted to have the procedure because she "liked a curvy look" and "having an hourglass figure".
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
I flip over the one large hourglass on the mantel in the treatment room.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
It is true that the bouquets are not wilting and that there aren’t human skulls or hourglasses inserted into the compositions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
And she picked up on the morbid side of me — I have a collection of hourglasses and vanitas things with skulls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2017
And if packets get dropped, hourglasses spin and screens freeze.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2014
"I still have the same excitement level," said Charles Edwards of Portland, Ore., who has been making slow-dripping sculptures of coffee makers and hourglasses inspired by the experiment since 2010.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 26, 2013
At first, Gryffindors passing the giant hourglasses that recorded the House points the next day thought there’d been a mistake.
From "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" by J.K. Rowling
