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Sentence Examples The two neurones alternate in activity, like the steady tick-tock of a clock. Neither side deserved to lose this game but with just three minutes left on the clock Ballyhar struck for the winner. These oscillation measurements are so accurate that an atomic clock, if left unadjusted, would gain or lose one second every 160,000 years. Its blips are so regular and stable that its accuracy can rival the most accurate atomic clock on Earth. This is achieved by continuously synchronising all on-board atomic clocks with a master clock on the ground. I'm currently in Dublin just bumming around, sorting stuff out, but the clock is ticking. The all-in-one lampshades come with a tabletop touch lamp with a telephone and a clock with alarm facility. Over the course of the week Local Authorities worked around the clock to improve travel conditions by gritting and salting roads in urban areas. Does this mad rush to abandon our natural sleep cycle to work around the clock really make sense? In 1999 we constructed a small prototype of this clock, approximately two meters tall. I tapped my mechanical pencil against my desk and sighed deeply, glancing at the clock from the corner of my eye. We were at the Greyfisher having a leaving do for Donna, Sy's boss, when the clock struck midnight and Sy was already WELL away with the fairies! The stylish analog clock is awkwardly placed low and to the right of the driver. Some repair shops are using mainsprings that are too strong for your clock. People didn't have watches then and they could see the old clock from any part of the main street of the town. There was a double bed, made nicely and a bedside table with a small lamp and alarm clock. One of these days my son is going to turn around and clock S. Of course, DJ will be the one to get suspended, be punished, made an example of. The tower will be scaffolded throughout and the clock faces will be removed for refurbishment, re-glazing and re-gilding at the end of August. The Teasmade was a combined alarm clock and kettle, which would wake you up with an alarm, a bedside light and a hot cup of tea. The clock, situated on top of the Popular Stand, has not worked since the back end of last year when it was hit by a falling branch. Show More Sentences As the clock struck 9, the tele was still on, the bowl half empty and she was still alone. Organiser functions include a scheduler, alarm clock, calculator and world clock. A supermarket worker was able to tell the time on a digital watch but not on the analogue clock in the staff canteen. But if you want a work of art, a thing of beauty that also tells the time, buy a clock. Only the clock face is fairly simple and that is because people needed to be able to tell the time easily. Racing the clock and the break of dawn, he turned the 48-inch Oschin Schmidt telescope at the Palomar Observatory to the location. Looking at her clock she found that the class was almost over, and with it the school day. One glance at the clock on the nightstand beside the bed revealed it to be eight o'clock in the morning. The grandfather clock in the hall chimed the seven o'clock hour at his arrival. And while it's only been 30 days or more, I have to say, with the clock ticking, the response has been tepid at best. A real-time scope offers the advantage of capturing and measuring transient phenomena like an occasional glitch in a fast clock. In general, any lantern clock with a balance wheel has had its escapement restored. In fact, the clock had struck three before the noises finally ceased, but even after that Mary was too terror-struck to sleep. I picked up the noisy clock, scowling at it with my half opened eyes, and shook my head. Sure enough, as the clock marked 8.30 am, Neptune's special police arrived on the Bridge. The next cut finds him waiting for the second hand on the clock to mark 5.00 pm and thus the banal end to his career. As the clock inched towards midnight a storm struck the island marooning everyone there. The gallant ten-year-old has more miles on the clock than an old banger, but he still has the engine and constitution of a Land Rover. Come into work feeling like an idiot, go straight up to the person in charge of you and explain that your alarm clock was banjaxed or something. I think this was a deliberate ploy to muffle the sound of my clock radio, thereby ensuring my lateness. Show More Sentences Gardner and teammates watched helplessly as the final six seconds ticked off the clock. It might be third-hand with 135,000 miles on the clock, but it's still a nice car. Try positioning yourself in view of a wall clock or use a watch with a second hand or timer. I woke up in the hospital at three in the morning and I could see the second hand on the clock wasn't moving. Code breaking, radio surveillance and the training and delivery of secret agents became a round the clock activity. I have to worry thro' thick and thin to get all my clothes, crockery, chairs, clock, and so on. Our clock is a superb piece of engineering, and has a mechanism that is almost identical to Big Ben in London. OverDrive throttles the core clock speed to get maximum performance while staying under a maximum allowable temperature. Let's even put a grandfather clock ticking self-confidently against one wall. Crump had to win a race against the clock even to take part in the meeting. You struggle up in the dark, focusing your eyes in desperation on the digital alarm clock, which tells you that it's 7.30 am. The speed of processors, usually known as clock speed, is measured in megahertz or these days in gigahertz. Three seconds, three ticks of the clock, and the transformation from smoke to human was complete. They sat silently for a few minutes, the tick of the clock on the mantle and crackling of the fire in the fireplace now very loud in the silence. The tireless tick of the clock could be heard during lulls in the conversation. He argues as if a tick of the clock, viz. the arrival of the Middle Ages, could cause the widespread destruction which India suffered. In a sport in which the times are measured in hundredths of a second, she beat Giove, who took second, by 20 ticks of the clock. It is an artificial construct of man that simply represents the number of ticks from a clock. If it hadn't have been so loud, I'd have totally counted down the seconds until freedom just by the ticks on the clock above the whiteboard. By using the very basis of matter, we can define the second to be 9,192,631,770 ticks of the caesium clock. Show More Sentences Each tick of the clock was accompanied by the amplified sound of a human heartbeat. Women no longer fear the tick of the biological clock, as medical technology has proved that those with the money can pay to have it turned back. The obnoxious tick of the clock clicked annoyingly over the thunder itself. The tick of this pulsar clock is very regular, a sharp pulse every 0.059 second. At this time of night, the tick of the clock synchronises itself with my heartbeat. Instead, her eyes stayed open, staring into the dark, and she watched the luminescent numbers on her clock tick slowly by. I think I had watched the clock tick for 4 hours when it claimed only ten minutes had go by. I watched the clock tick off the seconds, and finally click over into place. All that could be heard besides the patter of raindrops against the window was the sound of the clock ticking off the seconds. Measuring motions in this absolute space also required a universal clock, which ticked off the seconds for all the inhabitants of the cosmos. As the clock ticks in the short interview, it becomes apparent that a new line of questioning is in order before things spin out of control. Reporters spend most of their time reporting and then as the clock ticks, start banging away at the keys. The first act is played with the sound of a clock ticking and whistling wind running through it, setting a foreboding atmosphere. The clock had barely started ticking in the second period before Killie equalised. The clock on the wall ticked on, its sound echoing through the otherwise silent room. He slid out of bed into the darkness and picked up his cellphone, watching the numbers on the clock tick. The novelty of playing with clock applets, weather widgets, stock tickers and dancing hula girls soon wears off. It speaks of winter days sitting snug and cosy, the lamp lighting my page, toes gently toasting, and the quiet tick-tock of the clock. The search for rhythmic patterns is so ingrained that given the persistent ticking of a clock we organise the beat into a pattern of tick-tock. You can feel it throbbing and it's this, like the tick-tock of a clock, that sends you back to sleep. Show More Sentences They gradually fell out of step, with one clock losing 5 seconds a day in relation to the other. Either the alarm clock didn't work or she hadn't heard it, so she had to hustle out with nothing but a cup of the substandard complimentary coffee from the urn in the lobby. In Emilia Romagna, important churches and clock towers damaged in a series of springtime earthquakes will never be repaired. One can discern in the mirror other objects in the room such an end table, a sculpted bust, an oil lamp, an oval portrait and a grandfather clock. The restored clocks are reputed to be accurate to one second in one million years and are controlled by a radio signal from the caesium atomic clock at Rugby in the Midlands. One of the marvels of the twentieth century is the electric alarm clock. This enables a high-data throughput between the synchronous circuit and the asynchronous circuit independently of a clock frequency of the synchronous circuit. Hitting the alarm clock he saw it was ten o'clock in the morning. They seemingly had the game in hand but New Mexico State hit with just 3 ticks left on the clock before Sparks hit the money ball from the corner pocket. The man spots another clock, where the second hand has not moved at all. And for the next few days, the exhausted scientist slept almost round the clock, making up for the months when he often worked 36 hours at a stretch. Years of market reform in the 1980s and the 1990s have made this a very good-performing economy, but some Luddites in the House want to wind back that clock. Set in Edwardian London, the movie starts off with Wendy who narrates harrowing tales of swordplay and Captain Hook, who fears nothing but a ticking clock. A secret trap door in the kiosk below the clock leads to a spiral staircase down to the lower level info booth. The Saturday looked to be boring, as Sam and Katherine both sat on a bar stool, heads propped up in their hands and staring at the clock on the opposite wall. As the final seconds ticked off the clock, the shocked Scots found themselves on the losing sideline for the fifth time this season and the fourth time in as many weeks. With just 1.8 ticks left on the clock and the ball, Pitt inserted a severely hobbled Knight into the lineup who hit the front rim on a 70-foot launch. In 2011, irrespective of ground conditions, the NATO clock will go into reverse sweep. She suddenly took notice of what sounded like a clock ticking. The guard leans back in his booth, thumbing a paper, watching the clock. Show More Sentences The annoying buzz of my alarm clock awoke me from my dreamless sleep. The tick-tock of the clock was amplified and I glanced at it as a reflex. Each day, he sits on the edge of his bed, head hung in a state of lonely tristesse while the mellifluous tick-tock of a grandfather clock marks time. I wasn't heckled, I wasn't jeered, but my wife and I did have to hustle out of there quickly so we could stop the babysitter's clock from bankrupting us. Eventually every town in Europe had a clock in the market square. I was up to my elbows in cake batter when I glanced at the clock. In the center of the mantelshelf is a gilt-bronze clock featuring a figure of George Washington based on Washington at the Battle of Trenton, painted in 1792 by John Trumbull. Even with the doctor's notes, I was given bare minimum to live on, and was forced to pay for most of the medications I needed to take around the clock in order to breathe. But I do think I notice a few differences over time, some subtle movements upon a slow-moving clock. And, finally, as the clock ticks past five-thirty in the evening and you know the agent is shutting up shop for the day, realizing that you've wasted a perfectly good day. There was a shelf above the tiny fireplace, acting as a mantelpiece for the clock, which was one of those porcelain shells with a clock face as it's inner pattern. She turns and looks at her alarm clock which says eight o'clock. The second will be defined to be so many ticks of the standard clock. The Teasmade, is a combination of an alarm clock, a kettle and tea pot. Ben sat quietly, listening to the tick-tock of the grandfather clock. Indeed, taken in conjunction with the analogue clock mounted in the centre of the dash, they could even be said to resemble parts removed from the fascia of a Teasmade. The only sounds filling the room was the soft scraping of his knife and fork across his serving dish and the tick of a mahogany clock atop a mantel. Every call more urgent than the previous one obviously, as the clock ticked down and the window inched its way ever closer to being snibbed shut. Employees may clock in by calling a toll-free phone number, logging in from a smartphone or accessing a timeclock. Hawkeye Technology takes pride in offering time clock software solutions that exceed customer expectations. Show More Sentences The new time clock feature is available in the latest version of the ShopKeep POS app that is easily downloadable in the App Store. A tropical bird can use the equatorial change in sunrise and sunset times to synchronize its circannual clock. We were then keeping possession as the clock ran down only for referee Bill Crombie to step in and award a free-kick against us for timewasting. For instance, as is now commonplace, Intia has inserted clock times and calendric dates into her narrative. Rives is responsible for caring for the historic multifaced clock near the top of the tower. Mitochondrial DNA changes at a predictable rate, acting as an evolutionary clock that makes it ideal for such comparisons. Pip Schofield is back hosting the show where couples win money for charity and a carriage clock. But Hansen's gift for dissecting matches was not the corporation's only carriage clock and pension pot changing hands last night. When the crunch comes two years from now the majority will walk out with a carriage clock and cuddly toy as a thank you. Which country was the centre for brass carriage clock making in the 19th century? The SY8984x MUX series offer the industry's first non-PLL clock switchover circuit that guarantees no runt pulses when the inputs are switched. We will develop innovative methods of super-resolution microscopy and of quantification of protein turnover using a fluorescent molecular clock. Comparisons of different molecular clock models and tree priors were performed similarly to a method of Bakker et al. In addition, AhR signaling affects molecular clock genes to influence glucose metabolism. There is a clock, mousemat, notebook and pen, shot glasses, light-up speakers, glowing shoelaces, messenger bag and glow t-shirt up for grabs. Qtel's SSM are placed in easily-accessible supermarkets, malls, airports and petrol stations, and available around the clock in many locations. A 24-hour accurate quartz time clock facilitates precise setting for defrost start times. That thumping noise is my biological clock chundering like a box of Pampers trapped in the Hadron Collider. Clock The third thing would be the cedarwood clock which we bought 32 years ago in Scotland when we were on holiday. The increased speed pushes solar noon backwards against clock time, and the time stands still for a few days in terms of winter sunrises. Show More Sentences With a quartz-activated clock, illuminated cigar lighter, illuminated ashtray and illuminated glove box, drivers were fully accommodated. Grasshoppers in jam jars, Cinnamon sticks and iron bars, Brandy snaps and jumble brain scars, Alarm clock clamps of fallen stars. Fluctuations in physiology and behavior move to the beat of the circadian clock. Healthcare companies are scurrying to find a company like eHDL who have the code sets before the two-year clock to standardize ticks away. We would wait and wait, the silence broken only by the tick-tock, tick-tock, of our big grandfather clock. These include the clock genes that affect both the persistence and period of circadian rhythms. And with just four minutes 38 seconds on the clock, Etim pinned his man on the canvas and landed a guillotine choke hold to force a technical submission. Recent studies have demonstrated a link in energy regulation to circadian clock patterns, suggesting a potential role of food timing in the role of obesity. Soon afterwards the alarm will go off and you'll be able to think of very little else but the tick-tock, boom-boom, brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiingg of your body clock. Traffic will be diverted away from the town centre through the Cefni industrial estate and to the clock square from the mini roundabout at Ffordd Cae Sel. My body clock just doesn't cope with international timezones. Once it was time to move the time capsules into the base of the clock tower, Green and Trainor lifted the smaller box and handed it off to the person inside. I sat watching the clock tick past my own office time, dreading the possibility that I might have to call work and ask for a day off for the second time in a fortnight. Daily or circadian rhythms include the sleep-wake cycle, and rhythms in hormone release are controlled by a molecular clock that is present in every cell of the human body. The current requirements look very much like a square wave with fast edges but short duration, usually only a fraction of the entire clock cycle period itself. At the cellular level, circadian rhythms originate from self-sustained, autoregulated, cyclic expressions of clock genes, which constitute the molecular clock. By tapping on a clock, you can then shift a dial to figure out the perfect time to link up that work check-in, family call or friendly chat across multiple timezones. Sue and Bob were presented with a carriage clock in recognition of their service by Travel de Courcey's founder and managing director Mike de Courcey. And when an expiry date is set, it cannot be foiled in the usual manner by turning back a computer's clock, because it can use an online timeserver. Using a micro thermopile, the Remember Ring converts the heat from your hand into electricity, keeping the battery charged and microchip clock running, says the company. Show More Sentences People will admit anything on telly for a free carriage clock. For months we've woken to the alarm clock, hustled sleepyheads out of bed, made breakfasts, packed lunches, checked bags are packed and teeth are brushed. Fortunately, we quickly organized crews to keep the Hoist and McClure Dam spillways clear of debris and worked around the clock to make sure that both dams held. The employee's own smartphone can be used as the time clock. Examples from Classical Literature It was as though a clock had struck, loud and inexorably, marking off some irrecoverable hour. Having set the clock approximately to sidereal time, observe one or two more stars in the same way as above. The hours went by, sounding slowly, sonorously, and sadly from the cathedral clock. But think of a lively and humoresque clock that does not tick and takes only an hour to record a day. Pellett had had his skinful, and the fitness of things decreed that he should soak the clock around. I am thirty-two by the clock and I should hie me to the grave-digger that he may take my measure. In an epitaph in high wycombe churchyard, life is compared to the working of a clock. The ticking of the clock and the snapping of the fire mingled in a staccato duet. Inside it was a clock, which could be set to run a certain time and then loosen a sort of gunlock. She was counting the slow-footed moments, and at every turn her eyes consulted the old Dutch clock in the corner. The only change was the impalpable one which occurs in a room when a clock stops. A bombshell filled with gunpowder, a gunlock, and a small clock, have been suggested as forming the components of this invention. Why, it sounds like a clock that strikes thirteen in the small hours of the night! Krupp bent down and glanced through an interstice of a partition at a clock in the corridor. The little clock on the mantel pointed to half-past nine as he took off his smoking jacket and called for his coat and hat. I'd never believe I'd been asleep an hour, if I didn't see it hon the clock. Why, thought he, should not the parts of a clock be made so they would be interchangeable? Hence we distinguish clock time from sun time by calling clock time, mean time and sun time, apparent or solar time. Yet could we sit and moralise, and intellectualise, for hours at this window, nor hear the striking clock. The sallow-faced clock that hung above the mirror that backed the bar, jerked out one jingly strike, a half hour. Show More Sentences Bransome, who was also in riding clothes, although he was not taking part in the steeplechases himself, glanced at the clock. At moonrise, however, grunter woke, punctual as an alarum clock. The church clock struck the half-hour as he turned into the wood. I passed the time with one restless eye upon the clock, and the other on the Tantalus which Raffles ruthlessly declined to unlock. It is staffed round the clock by seven telephonists, who operate the computerised call handling system, as well as bleeper contact with 50 staff. Making the sun his alarm clock, he prolonged the slug-a-bed luxury. It was the primitive clock, the horologe of the first world. Vitality, says Huxley, has no more reality than the horology of a clock. He was someplace inside the clock, beyond the door, silent and remote. The losing team failed to beat the clock but the recent castoff got a first hand look at what would have scored them the win. The clock ticked through the minutes of a half-hour and the afternoon outside began to thicken and darken turbidly. At this moment the clock from the old tower in the stabling struck two. That clock is standard time for this section of the country. Seems it credible that by three such thin threads the great Leviathan was suspended like the big weight to an eight day clock. Well, there was a big outlandish parrot on each side of the clock, made out of something like chalk, and painted up gaudy. And he had hardly thought it when, somewhere near, a clock on the wall, ticking away hurriedly, struck three. They were both so silent that the ticktock of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia clock on the mantelpiece became quite rudely audible. The ticking of the clock emphasized the inexorable silence of the house. I got the idea that the way for me to reach school on time was to move the clock hands from half-past eight up to the nine o'clock mark. Instinctively Dantes turned round to observe by what watch or clock the abbe had been able so accurately to specify the hour. Show More Sentences Police believe at least two burglars broke in to grab table clock made by 17th Century master Thomas Tompion, damaging one of its feet. I can distinctly remember that as we did so there came three chimes from a neighboring clock. The kettle began it, full five minutes by the little waxy-faced Dutch clock in the corner, before the Cricket uttered a chirp. The clock marked a quarter before twelve when he climbed up out of the lazarette, replaced the trapdoor, and hurried to set the table. If that fat face in the clock could only speak as well as goggle its eyes! About a week before the first day of Ramadan, many Egyptian streets suddenly look like workshops, where tinsmiths hammer out new fawanees around the clock. However, using simple pull-up resistors on the clock and data lines becomes problematic if there are long signal lines or many devices connected to the bus. She said I was only to stay ten minutes and she's timing me by the clock. Weighing approximately one metric ton, or 2,200 pounds, the clock takes its time of day reference, as well as calculating the number of days remaining from satellites. The clock ticks over the fireplace, the weather-glass hangs in the hall. Braving the chilling weather conditions, merrymakers hit the city roads as the clock ticktocked past midnight, ringing in 2015 with aerial firing and boisterous celebrations. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of clock? Words that rhyme with clock What is the past tense of clock? What is the plural of clock? What is the adverb for clock? What is the adjective for clock? What is the noun for clock? Translations for clock Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words cloche clobbers clobbering clobbered clobber cloam Clock clocked clocker clockface clocking clocklike 5-letter Words Starting With c cl clo cloc