[
US
/əˈkɫɑk/
]
[ UK /əklˈɒk/ ]
[ UK /əklˈɒk/ ]
ADVERB
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according to the clock
it's three o'clock in Tokyo now
How To Use o'clock In A Sentence
- She was so tired she came home and conked out at eight o'clock.
- On April 4th at about 4 o'clock in the evening, the Dupleix anchored in Pondicherry harbour. Aurchlives, Aehton, and April flower
- 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 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.
- 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.
- He had to bring forward an 11 o'clock meeting so that he could get to the funeral on time.
- It was six o'clock in the morning and we had just touched down in Karachi airport.