stopwatch

Example Sentences

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While it’s quicker and faster than its predecessors, much of the focus seems to be on delivering emotional content rather than stopwatch performance—most obviously, in the presence and sonority of the engine.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 23, 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

The purple stopwatch is visiting Oscar Piastri for a good chunk of time here.

From BBC • May 4, 2024

My eyes scan the plastic flowers near the sink, the faded wallpaper that Tía keeps telling her to take down, the wall clock shaped like a stopwatch, the teeny ants zigzagging near the leaky faucet.

From "Merci Suárez Changes Gears" by Meg Medina