stopwatch
Example Sentences
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While it’s quicker and faster than its predecessors, much of the focus seems to be on delivering emotional content rather than stopwatch performance—most obviously, in the presence and sonority of the engine.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 2025
As the season unfolded, Ohtani took particular interest in trying to identify such cues himself, sometimes reviewing video in the dugout with a stopwatch in hand.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024
“If I’d had a stopwatch,” she said, “I wouldn’t even have finished pushing down the stopwatch button before the thing was out. It was so easy and fast.”
From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024
The purple stopwatch is visiting Oscar Piastri for a good chunk of time here.
From BBC • May 4, 2024
Ted asked me after we swam a hundred-yard free and he didn’t like the time staring back at him on his stopwatch.
From "The Miseducation of Cameron Post" by emily m. danforth
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