marks time
Example Sentences
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"The monarchy and its rituals and its dramas and events, and the way it marks time, provide us with a collective experience," she said.
From BBC • Apr. 26, 2023
It is telling that the village tour is how the author marks time.
From Washington Times • Oct. 27, 2019
In many major cities, art life marks time with annual commercial art fairs or contemporary biennials.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 4, 2018
In the book, the gaps between entries are of variable lengths, and, since the poem marks time, require silences of variable intervals:
From The New Yorker • Sep. 5, 2016
It is the thing they are thinking, and doing, and learning in Backwash, Nebraska, that marks time for these United States.
From Fanny Herself by Ferber, Edna
