metronome

Example Sentences

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The golden retriever waits, “his tail a plumy metronome.”

From Washington Post

"They were terrible, because I didn't know what a metronome was, so everything was just out of time. But they gave me a chance and they said they could see potential in me".

From BBC

In adulthood, Tamariz pursued his vocation with monastic focus, not only fine-tuning his technique — at times to the accompaniment of a metronome — but studying philosophy and art history for application to his developing ideas.

From New York Times

Dancers swirl, the artist repeatedly climbs over chairs like a man going nowhere and a group of Man Ray-style metronomes slowly goes out of synchronization.

From Los Angeles Times

They insisted on relying on the obsolete metronome of history they have come to rely on entirely to predict the future.

From Salon