countdown

How To Use countdown In A Sentence

• The countdown to the rocket launch will begin at 9.00 am.
• On the clapometer scale it was somewhere between the closing credits of Countdown and a wet Thursday at Hove cricket ground. Radio catchup: The Doctor Who Prom and Cabin Pressure
• It's like a countdown to a blast-off of a rocket ship - like there's no way of stopping it.
• It's a day where people celebrate by drinking the worst-tasting beer they can find, wearing ratty blue singlet tops with Australian flags as a cape, eating burnt "snags" from the "barbie" and listening to the Triple J Hottest 100 countdown on the radio from the plush confines of a deck chair placed in a kiddie's wading pool. A List For Australia Day
• Riens pour nous faisons in Singapore, unless nous allons La Sentosa pour la plage countdown, ou Zouk, pour la fetes. Rouflaquette Diary Entry
• The countdown to the rocket launch will begin at 9.00 am.
• The countdown has begun for the launch of the latest reality TV show from Endemol, the makers of Big Brother, and this really could be the one to end them all.
• London Olympics with gusto, Meadows is candid about her fear of the Games and the countdown to what she calls "doomsday". Evening Standard - Home
• The new quadrennium, with its countdown to Beijing, has already begun.
• Underneath my chair was a pair of worn socks; Jack had obviously discarded them while watching Countdown earlier in the afternoon.