mark time

Example Sentences

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Trees, it turns out, can spark memories, mark time and give us a comforting place to return to.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Frances' periods mark time across the 12 episodes, measuring intervals underneath the flurry of going on holiday, resuming the school term, breaking up, making up.

From Salon • May 24, 2022

The town even plays a centuries-old bugle call three times a day from its clock tower to mark time passing by.

From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2022

A halfhearted grad student’s relationship to school is a lot like Dani and Christian’s terrible couplehood—a great way to mark time while looking committed.

From Slate • Jul. 12, 2019

But the very fact of my having become his carer served as a reminder that we weren’t there to mark time.

From "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro