How To Use Clock In A Sentence

I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
I set the alarm clock for a quarter to midnight, and settled down for a couple of hours sleep.
She was so tired she came home and conked out at eight o'clock.
All of a sudden St. Philip's ten bells start tanging - one oclock already - and at once the workshops and factories around the yard begin disgorging throngs of workers on their way to lunch
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About 7 o'clock tonight, we had a whopping great thunderstorm with accompanying light show, and the flipping garage got flooded again!
Lisa called Malone at seven o'clock next morning, right on time; when she named a time, one could set the GPO clock by her. MURDER SONG
The clock stands on an oval marble base, enclosed by a glass dome.
Stop tinkering with that clock and take it to the repair shop.
Hopefully you'll sort any hitches so the whole wedding runs like clockwork. The Sun
The chime of the clock woke him up.
The children were bedded at ten o'clock
Hence it became necessary to distinguish one from the other _by name_, and thus the notation from midnight gave rise, as I have remarked in one of my papers on Chaucer, to the English idiomatic phrase "of the clock;" or the reckoning of the clock, commencing at midnight, as distinguished from Roman equinoctial hours, commencing at six o'clock A.M. This was what Ben Jonson was meaning by attainment of majority at _six o'clock_, and not, as PROFESSOR DE M.RGAN supposes, "probably a certain sunrise. Notes and Queries, Number 214, December 3, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
She was rarely astir later than 7 o'clock.
After the clockwork of the watch was cleaned the watch kept perfect time.
The Olympic village ran like clockwork. The Sun
Light signalling pathways from both phytochrome and cryptochrome photoreceptors regulate clock components to achieve entrainment in plants.
Scott is heading for a CD prize after clocking up perfect days for all of this half-term.
There are two large weights hung from pulleys behind the clock.
Come ten o'clock in the evening we've generally begun to stretch and yawn, and by ten thirty the house is quiet except for gentle snoring.
Turn the clock face to the wall. Beat Jet Lag - arrive alert and stay alert
It's like a silent alarm ringing on a carefully coded genetic clock.
He had to bring forward an 11 o'clock meeting so that he could get to the funeral on time.
He was the talisman, the cog in the clockwork that made the whole mechanism function.
Formula One, by contrast, runs in a clockwise direction and only uses part of the oval.
When data is fed into input, D1 and a clock pulse given, the data moves along one place.
In 1974 he published the definitive book on the history of carriage clocks. Times, Sunday Times
That's when I stopped what I was doing, got out of bed and brained the one in the red pyjamas with my alarm clock.
It was six o'clock in the morning and we had just touched down in Karachi airport.
And about 5 o'clock in the eavning we could see the Yankees a marchen up on the other side of the river by regiments and most all went back from on this Side of the river and General Earley thought that they was all a going back and taken all of his men but a Louisiana Bregaid and started to reinforce General Lea And about the time we had gone 6 miles they come The diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone,
You cannot put back the clock.
Some days she was listless, propped up facing the window, watching sunlight clock across the valleyed bedclothes. Spin
He looked at the clock: one forty.
'It must be -- eight o'clock,' said the gasping voice -- '_eight o'clock_;' and the tone became a whisper, as though the idea thus half involuntarily revealed had been drawn jealously back into the strongholds of consciousness. Robert Elsmere
It was already nearly eight o'clock.
This discovery led to the invention of the pendulum and various timepieces such as the Grandfather clock, but at the time Galileo could not explain it.
Spain is to move its clocks back one hour to be in time with Britain in a change that could sound the death knell for the siesta. Times, Sunday Times
The church clock struck midnight.
I've set the alarm clock to go off at 7 am.
The sun set about ten o'clock, and Lady Clare and Shag greeted its last departing rays with a whinny, accompanied by a wanton kickup from the rear -- for whatever Boyhood in Norway
A painter who had been working on the clock tower hung a pot of paint on one of the hands and slowed it down!
Some time in the fifteenth century, clockmakers started to use tightly coiled blades of metal - springs - to power their timepieces, instead of gravity.
At seven o'clock the night nurse came in to relieve her.
Any band activity would supposedly disturb his equilibrium so he is forbidden to leave the house and is watched round the clock. Times, Sunday Times
Some repair shops are using mainsprings that are too strong for your clock.
If your bills are higher than expected or the clock seems inconsistent on your meter this could pose a warning sign. The Sun
Behind him an antique grandfather clock slowly ticks away. Times, Sunday Times
Her labour was going like clockwork when her waters broke on the evening of her due date.
She looked pointedly at the clock on the kitchen wall.
It was about 10 o'clock when a murmur went through the crowd as the low drone of an aircraft was heard in the distance. Times, Sunday Times
I didn't leave the office until eight o'clock last night.
Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
To me the shape is more like an orrery, a clockwork model of the solar system.
Next to the table was a scale with a steel tray hanging underneath its clocklike face. RUNNING FROM THE LAW
The approach allows a likelihood ratio test to assess the robustness of the clock.
At sharp five o'clock th 'rivolution begun. Th' sthreets was dinsely packed with busy journalists, polis, sojers, an 'fash'nably dhressed ladies who come down fr'm th' Chang's All Easy in motocycles. Mr. Dooley: In the Hearts of His Countrymen
He would at least describe the wench who'd clocked him with a trunk.
The urge for a midday nap is built into your body's biological clock.
Marge's chain-smoking, DMV-working sister, Selma, feels the tick of her biological clock.
To understand this, you have to turn the clock back and take a look at our ancient ancestors. The Sun
That far north, the moon the midnight sun for 24 hours around the clock.
From that moment, he anchors his existence in the hopeless need to share an affective contiguity with this random female acquaintance by changing the time of every clock and watch he encounters to Paris time.
It looked ominous for Blues' new gaffer with five minutes on the clock. The Sun
That clock on your computer screen is ticking. Times, Sunday Times
The company is filled with superb technologists who are prepared to obsolete products in their prime and to churn out new ones with clockwork regularity.
These Ancients, more ancient than ours but still not literally ancient, saw the world not as a giant clockwork but as an organism.
The delicatessen closes at nine o'clock.
The night's lengthy endurance challenge involved seven teams racing against the clock.
No hour of the clock was where it was supposed to be. Times, Sunday Times
Turn off the heating and use a radiator bleed key - from hardware shops - to turn the shaft anticlockwise for a quarter- or half-turn (don't unscrew it by more than one complete turn).
It's that time of year in the northern hemisphere, the nights are drawing in, the clocks going back, and the weather is wet and awful.
The distinctive open fretwork pediment of the mahogany case is associated with clocks made in or near Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the Federal period.
The train arrived at exactly 8 o'clock.
Its head looks like a dandelion clock, from which flows a long tail which broadens and splits about a degree or so along its length.
Around the clock, the coaches galloped down the towns' high streets with long brass horns blowing to warn pedestrians.
The thing is, my parents like me to be home by 10 o'clock.
By the late 19th century, telegraphic signals sent over transoceanic cables enabled clocks to be synchronized worldwide with sufficient accuracy that one had to correct for the delay due to the transmission of the telegraphic signal.
The appellant was informed that he had been clocked at 97 kilometers in a 50 kilometer per hour zone.
Similarly, events can be timed to the precision of atomic clock broadcasts.
Up until 10 o'clock, Audrey and I enjoyed sitting and watching the spectacles, drumming our fingers to the impeccable music, and chit-chatting about absolutely useless girl talk.
His clocks were masterpieces of skill, precision, ingenuity, and determination.
Pain circled my head, blood trickled coppery in my mouth, and darkness called until the clock ticked into the next millisecond and my foot came down awkwardly on the dirt. 365 tomorrows » 2009 » November : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The fireworks begin at eight o'clock precisely.
Clock frequency uses "hertz" (Hz) as its base unit. Latest Articles on LaptopLogic
They talked on and on until four o'clock in the morning.
On April 4th at about 4 o'clock in the evening, the Dupleix anchored in Pondicherry harbour. Aurchlives, Aehton, and April flower
After two more e-days, by Aubry's internal clock, they reached the end of the dendrite they'd been traveling out. METAPLANETARY
Clocking in at just over a dozen jobs, players will have warriors, red, black, and white mages, paladins, thieves, samurai, ninjas, dragoons, monks, summoners, beast masters, and dark knights at their disposal.
She's a gun-shy divorcee whose surround-sound biological clock is ticking so loudly that everyone - from her senile aunt to her nosy butcher - is scrambling to set her up.
And I got up at six oclock and left about twenty minutes after six to go down and get the car filled up with gas.
The speed of processors, usually known as clock speed, is measured in megahertz or these days in gigahertz (GHz).
The clock on the wall ticked on, its sound echoing through the otherwise silent room.
These normally coincide at a time when our natural biological clock allows sleep to occur. Times, Sunday Times
I sot up till the clock was gone twelve last night, a-lookin at em, I did, till they stared at me out o the picturs as if theyd know when I spoke to em. III. A Voice from the Past. Book IV—The Valley of Humiliation
The only sound in the room apart from his sniffles was the sound of the clock on the wall ticking.
The meeting will begin at ten o'clock prompt.
The day shift arrives [ arrive ] at eight o'clock.
Those basic risks and unique problems cannot be alleviated or removed and can only be addressed by the placing of permanent firefighting staff around the clock.
By nine o'clock, the restaurant was humming.
The crowd froze as a swarm of Steamers jerseys surged towards the Canterbury line and the clock ticked into the red a converted try was all that was needed to keep the Ranfurly Shield at home.
It's ten o'clock by the kitchen clock.
The other approach is to bless a lowly subject, such as the life and times of a clockmaker, with the grandeur and solemnity of an epic.
As the offense team monitored the threat rings we were flying through, the copilot saw a missile at our 4 o'clock.
The Reds had clocked up what was then their biggest ever win by thrashing Gateshead 90-12 on Wednesday.
Many fondly recall the megahertz race -- the 90s phenomena in which Advanced Micro Devices and Intel raced to have the highest-clocked processor. DailyTech Main News Feed
The shot is there, but it has to hit his front rock at 11 o'clock, exactly, to hit this back rock.
She joined Otley Junior Players and her first starring role was as a clockwork doll at the age of five.
Bob is glad to have a job where he doesn't have to punch the clock.
The clock was restored to its original condition.
The mist shrouding the valley had lifted by eight o'clock.
It's now five o'clock, only an hour to go before his book launch.
I invited him for eight o'clock, but he didn't show up until nine-thirty.
The 800-metres specialist clocked a season's best 48.4 in the 400 metres and was even quicker in his leg of the relay.
I'll pick you up at 7 o'clock.
He looked around, his own arms hanging at his sides, but ready to clock the first person who laid a hand on him.
This weekend the clocks go back and we will be plunged again into inky afternoons. Times, Sunday Times
You don't have to play these cat and mouse games with your clockwork soldiers.
The children were still wide awake, when the clock struck twelve for the New Year's Day.
Management multiplied the camera angles, narrowed the strike zone, sodded the diamonds and the gridirons with AstroTurf, enlarged the jumbotrons, shortened the distance to the outfield fences, strengthened the golf clubs, adjusted the rules and the clocks to allow more time for the beer and truck commercials, bulked up the salaries paid to players bulked up to resemble the designated hitters in World of Warcraft. Lewis Lapham: Field of Dreams: The CIA and Me and Other Adventures in American Sports
The two-phase clock signal for the delay line is provided by a matching clock generator chip.
Rescue services have been working round the clock to free stranded motorists.
Dad's Army told us that in Britain, thank heaven, nothing worked like clockwork.
She is the first congressperson in living memory to require a round the clock police guard.
The 3 o'clock train arrived on the dot.
I called his hungover ass at 8 o'clock this morning. Chicagojo Diary Entry
It was ten o'clock at night, but there wasn't much chance of a rest.
The improved design of FIFO in respect of Multi - Asynchronous Clock Designs acquires perfect working performance.
The expression of CO is under the control of a circadian clock.
Continue along waymarked path to make clockwise circuit. Times, Sunday Times
the clock is almost an hour slow
At ten o'clock the movie ended. Christianity Today
Surgeons are working round the clock to save his life.
‘I can't wait,’ I sighed dramatically, letting Susie button me into my coat as Meredith clocked out.
It's five minutes after one o'clock.
It made sense with factory workers clocking on and off. Times, Sunday Times
The fire occurred at approx. 2 o'clock, when a spark from a fire disposing of waste materials ignited a number of buckets containing paint thinner.
And at eight o'clock in the evening, every single one of those eateries is closed. Just Back from the Emerald City
Fists fly as Eagles sink Sharks THEIR bitter rivalry was born out of the code's most brutal grand final 37 years ago and last night beachboy combatants Cronulla and Manly wound back the clock as the fists flew again in the Sea Eagles '18-4 trial match win. AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories
In baccarat the deal goes counterclockwise around the table from player to player.
Conventional hearing devices amplify everything — from conversations to background noise to the clock ticking.
The ferry leaves for France at one o'clock.
We sat drinking our Mojitos in a new bar in Soho, which had appealed to us thanks to its promise of a two-for-one happy hour until ten o'clock.
Quite why people need to be able to drink in licensed premises at four o’clock in the morning midweek is utterly beyond me. Outbreak of Clerical Common Sense
They had a horse-drawn wagon full of clocks.
He recalls turning up at the Mallorca training ground and clocking first-team players arriving stylishly in their shiny Ferraris.
His daily rituals were such that a scoreboard operator in Toronto tried to hex him one time by flipping the stadium clock directly from 7: 16 to 7: 18.
Alarm clocks were going off, playing rock, Christian pop, jazz or reggae.
I have been on the road since five o'clock this morning and I'm really tired.
Biorhythm A periodic physiological or behavioral change that is controlled by a biological clock.
She proposes an exchange of contracts at two o'clock.
according to my watch, it is already 2 o'clock.
In 1999 we constructed a small prototype of this clock, approximately two meters tall.
A grey mental gloom settles over them with clockwork regularity as soon as the days draw in and the mornings get darker. Stay Well This Winter
My alarm clock didn't go off this morning.
The church clock struck a quarter to twelve, and still the bride did not come.
Las Vegas courtroom by saying he "clocked" former judge Elizabeth Halverson on Sept. 4 because she threatened to stab him. WTOP / Business / Biz Stories
Reductionist science grew from the clockwork logic of Descartes.
Midnight at the Stanhope Gate was only a marginal improvement on three o 'clock in the porch of St. Georges. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
Men wearing masks dance among them in an attempt to frighten the child, who has to walk clockwise through this scene of carnage.
Such a division is described as dexiotropic if the clockwise daughter cell (in animal pole view) is the closer to the animal pole; in a laeotropic division the counterclockwise cell is closer to the animal pole. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
Under normal light/dark conditions, the clock genes rhythmically luminesced in each of the cultured segments - head, thorax and abdomen.
A real-time scope offers the advantage of capturing and measuring transient phenomena like an occasional glitch in a fast clock.
We've been waiting here since two o'clock.
However, further studies showed a significant number of hodographs for left-moving storms exhibiting clockwise curvature below 1 km.
The umbilicus was relocated, defatted and sutured with 4-0 PDS sutures at the 2, 4, 8 and 10 o'clock positions to create an innie.
He felt himself running in slow motion, slower and slower, like a clockwork toy running down. CHARMED LIFE
I used to start yapping then and I'd still be yapping at five o'clock at night.
The eastern slopes of Erebus were violet at first, and then they were bathe in rosy pink alpenglow and, between two and three o'clock, when the sun rose above WindVane Hill, they became sunflower yellow. Terra Incognita
The address that Rod had been given was a 20 mile drive away and it was not until nearly three o'clock that he cruised slowly past the terraced houses where he had been told to find the car.
The clock had barely started ticking in the second period before Killie equalised.
Believe it or not, two of RTE's five most popular programmes are the nightly weather reports, while the Nine O'Clock News makes it to the top ten four times a week.
The church clock chimed midnight.
He later discovered two travelling clocks and a signet ring, family heirlooms worth £700 and £200 in cash were missing.
THOUSANDS of runners may have clocked invalid times because dozens of courses are short, it was feared yesterday. The Sun
four-o'clock tea" rather blotted out one of the prettiest features of the English tea, that of the graceful garment the _tea gown_. Manners and Social Usages
I believe that the two most important instillations during the twenty-four hours of the number necessary to maintain this myosis are on retiring and if possible in the very early morning, some time between two and four o'clock. Glaucoma A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913
Even though my Reading Comprehension Level has been clocked at the post-doctorate level, my Reading Retention Level is somewhere in the pre-natal region.
But like a single gear in a mechanical clock, timeless can not keep good time all by itself.
By eleven o'clock we were all tired so we knocked it on the head.
`I was picturing some French Canadian with five o'clock shadow. FURTHER TALES OF THE CITY
The first examples had painted wood or engraved and silvered dials similar to those of long case clocks.
I look at the digital clock, built into the bedside.
We train in the morning at six o'clock, every morning in the camp at home and here as well.
Forget time, he was told, tear up calendars, chuck away clocks, lie doggo and heal yourself with a long-term poultice of peace and quiet. THE OPEN DOOR
The functioning of a key depends on its rigidity whilst that of clocks and watches depend crucially on the weight of pendulum bobs or the elasticity of springs.
It is safest to buy watches and clocks from reputable dealers or auction houses. Times, Sunday Times
Anyway, this guy, he's supposedly a clockmaker in Venice.
I see his ministerial car waiting for him at 10 o'clock every night - whoosh, he is off into the night in his chauffeur-driven car!
Somebody was dancing, waltzing round the town clock, and I thought - oh, the noise.
Their half of the clock runs when it is their turn and keeps going until they place their tiles and push a button. The Sun
“Dear child, how late it is!” exclaimed Lady Knollys suddenly, looking at the Louis Quatorze clock, that crowned the mantel-piece. Uncle Silas
It will not stop them from assuming that, as the clock strikes twelve, you want them to take hold of your face and plant a smacker on your lips.
The calendar and the clock, the chronology is running on all of us, Wynn said. CEO Profile: Wynn's new resort is like an old friend
Take the water ere the clock strikes twelve.
What we immediately take away from this is what I call the synchronized clock theory of astrology. The Volokh Conspiracy » “Evolutionary Astrology”
The native four-o'clock, also known as showy four-o'clock, is a great plant to add to your dryland Garden.
This is used to indicate the clock speed of computers.
The schoolmaster requested a meeting at nine o'clock in the morning.
Turn the key anticlockwise.
Some fifteen minutes later, the public address system announced boarding for the eleven o'clock shuttle through gate four. BLACK EAGLES

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