clock in
Example Sentences
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With the clock in the red, Leicester 28-19 up and each team having scored three tries, the Bears were attacking hard deep inside the host's half.
From BBC • Mar. 23, 2026
Most of them clock in at around 35 minutes, although the latest season premiere runs just over an hour.
From Salon • Feb. 7, 2026
He earned his PhD in 2006 from the Graduate School of Science at Nagoya University, where he studied the circadian clock in cyanobacteria.
From Science Daily • Jan. 13, 2026
Run out the clock in the million ways that we have learned that the clock can be run out.
From Slate • Dec. 26, 2025
Someone saw him wrapping up an alarm clock in a towel and burying it in the straw of a filly’s stall, letting her get used to the ticking.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.