hourglass
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These included an oval opening where the spinal cord connected to the brain and a distinctive crest shaped like an hourglass.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 14, 2026
In a dark room, a doctor pointed to an hourglass shape glowing on the ultrasound screen: There was her amniotic sac, funneling into her dilated cervix, and there was their tiny daughter’s foot, dipping out.
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
Like sands through the hourglass, so are the screams of our lives.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
"The hourglass is slowly running out, and time is being wasted," he said.
From BBC ● Feb. 21, 2026
One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.
From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood
But throughout the South, the bulbous arachnids with red hourglasses on their bellies are engaged in a lethal competition with the brown widow, a relative from abroad — and they’re losing.
From New York Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
It is true that the bouquets are not wilting and that there aren’t human skulls or hourglasses inserted into the compositions.
From Seattle Times ● Nov. 1, 2019
That polarity informs the theme of limited time, which Ito emphasizes in his work, using recurring candles and hourglasses.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 30, 2018
And if packets get dropped, hourglasses spin and screens freeze.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2014
I could kiss him for a thousand hourglasses.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
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