stopwatch

Example Sentences

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As a young Klaebo experimented with this unconventional approach, his grandfather clocked him with a stopwatch.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 16, 2026

First it was a pencil, paper and a stopwatch.

From BBC • Jun. 25, 2025

As the season unfolded, Ohtani took particular interest in trying to identify such cues himself, sometimes reviewing video in the dugout with a stopwatch in hand.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2024

“If I’d had a stopwatch,” she said, “I wouldn’t even have finished pushing down the stopwatch button before the thing was out. It was so easy and fast.”

From Slate • Aug. 23, 2024

I unzipped my backpack and removed a stopwatch, a notebook, a pen, and my iPod.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas