Example sentences for: clocks

How can you use “clocks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • The Hall of Clocks and Hall of Jewelry, collections of gifts to the emperors, are worth a detour to the right, as is the Nine-Dragon Screen (Jiulongbi), carved in 1775.

  • We have developed a tool kit for the analysis of cyclical data [ 27 ] and here have applied it to molecular data involving circadian clocks in isolated tissues of Drosophila.

  • The Hall of Clocks, located in the Hall of Worshipping Ancestors (Feng Xian Dian), contains the imperial collection of timepieces, many of them 18th-century gifts from England, America, and Europe.

  • Work in this area might help elucidate the process by which aging occurs and yield a way to reset the clocks in some of our own cells, allowing us to regenerate.

  • Eukaryotic organisms evolved clocks as an adaptation to geophysical cycles such as day and night or high and low tides or the passing seasons [ 1 ] . These clocks are oscillators that control timing in a broad range of processes such as rhythms in gene expression [ 2 ] , and navigational mechanisms for migratory flight [ 3 ] . Studies on the nature of such clocks - whether at the level of gene expression or behavior - most often rely on the measurement of rhythmic processes by repeated sampling over time.


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