hourglass
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In a dark room, a doctor pointed to an hourglass shape glowing on the ultrasound screen: There was her amniotic sac, funneling into her dilated cervix, and there was their tiny daughter’s foot, dipping out.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the screams of our lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
"The hourglass is slowly running out, and time is being wasted," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
“The hourglass sand bag complemented the sand-treated dress and was the icing on the cake, not to mention the theatrics of her ‘walk’ on the carpet.”
From Seattle Times ● May 7, 2024
“That’s right. So in the hourglass range of meanings you get death. In fact, after time, which is the first one, death is the second one.”
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
But throughout the South, the bulbous arachnids with red hourglasses on their bellies are engaged in a lethal competition with the brown widow, a relative from abroad — and they’re losing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
Gunn said that hourglasses became a way to nudge the fans toward the “sense of time running out.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 27, 2022
It is true that the bouquets are not wilting and that there aren’t human skulls or hourglasses inserted into the compositions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
And if packets get dropped, hourglasses spin and screens freeze.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2014
"But thank you. And it's not always this bad. Only after I've used the arcana. My eyes will drift back into place after a few hourglasses."
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
