mark time

Example Sentences

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But I find that once you put a number down on paper, you can mark time against it.

From Slate • May 6, 2024

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

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 21, 2024

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 • May 24, 2022

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

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