mark time

Example Sentences

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Episodic chapters titled to mark time’s passage are narrated in the third person — until we get to “October,” wherein a woman named Eleanor tells her own story.

From Los Angeles Times

While underground, cicadas receive chemical signals from trees through the sap they feed on -- signals that may help the insects mark time.

From Reuters

Kritsky believes it could be because cicadas use fluid in trees to mark time.

From Salon

“We have chapter breaks, as if life is a novel — that is the way we mark time,” said Dr. Milkman.

From New York Times

Many skid row residents live in cramped rooms in converted flophouses and other buildings, are un- or underemployed, and mark time outside on street corners and parks.

From Los Angeles Times