hourglass
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Her subject is sand, and she poses a simple question: Is the sand pouring through the hourglass sitting on the counter before her a liquid or a solid?
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 12, 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
Josephina Finch from Canterbury said she wanted to have the procedure because she "liked a curvy look" and "having an hourglass figure".
From BBC ● Feb. 23, 2026
“That’s right. So in the hourglass range of meanings you get death. In fact, after time, which is the first one, death is the second one.”
From "The Golden Compass" by Philip Pullman
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
And she picked up on the morbid side of me — I have a collection of hourglasses and vanitas things with skulls.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2017
And if packets get dropped, hourglasses spin and screens freeze.
From The Verge ● Nov. 1, 2014
After three hourglasses pass, Sophia's ladies-of-honor are splayed out on plush kneeling-pillows at the base of the throne, and their snores add to the misen players' song.
From "The Belles" by Dhonielle Clayton
