mark time

Example Sentences

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Mendes pays homage to the films of his youth by way of the films that play as a way to mark time: “Stir Crazy” here, “Raging Bull” there; but his ode to the medium he loves goes even deeper, not just to its power to generate empathy, but to its pluralism.

From Washington Post

From there, anxious to be taken seriously as a novelist and having doubts about the kind of book he was expected to write, he hints at a current project in a letter to his stepmother: It was “just a thriller to mark time.”

From Washington Post

Frances' periods mark time across the 12 episodes, measuring intervals underneath the flurry of going on holiday, resuming the school term, breaking up, making up.

From Salon

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

Episodic chapters titled to mark time’s passage are narrated in the third person — until we get to “October,” wherein a woman named Eleanor tells her own story.

From Los Angeles Times