mark time

Example Sentences

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Trees can spark memories, mark time and give us a comforting place to return to.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

The town even plays a centuries-old bugle call three times a day from its clock tower to mark time passing by.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

As we look ahead to early 2021, those familiar cultural markers by which we mark time are set to go on, albeit in slightly altered forms: the Grammys, the Oscars, the Super Bowl.

From Slate • Dec. 23, 2020

As they talk in hesitant ways, almost afraid of offending the other, the windshield wipers mark time like a metronome.

From Salon • Sep. 3, 2020

But the very fact of my having become his carer served as a reminder that we weren’t there to mark time.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro