mark time
Example Sentences
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Coppola asked Journe if a human hand had ever been used to mark time.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 24, 2025
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 they talk in hesitant ways, almost afraid of offending the other, the windshield wipers mark time like a metronome.
From Salon • Sep. 3, 2020
A halfhearted grad student’s relationship to school is a lot like Dani and Christian’s terrible couplehood—a great way to mark time while looking committed.
From Slate • Jul. 12, 2019
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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
