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, it turns out, can spark memories, mark time and give us a comforting place to return to.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Rcd1 Rea8, doubling rooks on a closed file, is a bit of a tell that he can only mark time as White dictates the play.

From Washington Times • Nov. 28, 2023

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

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