time-keeper

Example Sentences

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I have always believed that every game should have a time-keeper working in unison with the referee, and showing everyone in the stadium, including supporters, when the clock is stopped and restarted.

From BBC • Mar. 6, 2026

From the start, he envisioned his role as something more than a mere time-keeper.

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2025

I'd like to see the fellow who dared to lay hands on it—the best time-keeper I ever saw!

From St. Nicholas Vol. XIII, September, 1886, No. 11 An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks by Various

So exact a time-keeper is it that it gave names to two months in the native almanac.

From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

Well would it be for us if the time-keeper in our bosoms, beating momently the escape of our allotted term, acted as lightly on the frame; but all its emotions help to wear this out.

From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 4, April, 1852 by Various