mark time

Example Sentences

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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

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

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