mark time

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

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

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

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.

Mendes pays homage to the films of his youth by way of the films that play as a way to mark time: “Stir Crazy” here, “Raging Bull” there; but his ode to the medium he loves goes even deeper, not just to its power to generate empathy, but to its pluralism.