NOUN
- timepiece in which the passage of time is indicated by the flow of sand from one transparent container to another through a narrow passage
How To Use sandglass In A Sentence
- He glanced at the sandglass that he had turned over just moments ago and then thoughtfully back to the Masterharper. Dragon's Fire
- This would, however, be imperceptible so long as their lengths were not measured by some accurate mechanical time-measurer such as a clepsydra, sandglass, pendulum, or spring clock. The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture
- The sandglass remembers the time we lost. The hourglass forget, we broken unease.
- She glanced over at the sandglass, and started.
- Partridge squatted beside the ring with a sandglass — used for timing the casting of the log — in front of him. Mr. Midshipman Easy
- After Skent returned with the two scrolls and she signed and sealed the original and sent Fridric off with it, Anna glanced at the sandglass on the wall stand, nearing the eighth glass of the day. The Spellsong War
- The consultation took some little time, the second half of one sandglass and the beginning of the next. Hornblower In The West Indies
- Frequently we read by an old spoiled sandglass, which runs in a minute or two. Chapter VI. Book VIII
- The set designer explains that the sandglass chamber was not meant to be disassembled, but stuff like this happens all the time on a movie production - making the impossible possible. /Film Visits The Set of Prince Of Persia - Part 1 | /Film
- “J” pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ulysses
