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hourglass

[ UK /ˈa‍ʊ‍əɡlɑːs/ ]
[ US /ˈaʊɝˌɡɫæs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

How To Use hourglass In A Sentence

  • The result was the unique hourglass - like bottle the company used in the past.
  • In this paper a new grinding method, using small cylindrical face grinding wheel to grind straight outline hourglass worm, is put forward and the mathematical model is set up.
  • It sounds like you have an enviable hourglass figure. Times, Sunday Times
  • The silhouette here is hourglass, with strong shoulders and hems flaring in sculptural flounces.
  • Her figure was not slim or round, but ideally in the middle, with an hourglass waist.
  • It went down brilliantly until the day my friend thumped the hourglass - and sand began to trickle through.
  • It suddenly melted away like sand in an hourglass.
  • We have also projected out, using black hourglasses, a possible path for the propensity to hold U.S. currency.
  • This dress mimics a flattering hourglass shape. Times, Sunday Times
  • At about one o'clock I was still awake, sitting patiently with the lights off, watching the gold sand in the hourglass trickling with an almost painful laziness.
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