Example sentences for: clocks

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

  • The saying “Time is money” is quite literally true in Hong Kong: more is spent on watches and clocks here than on cameras and optical goods.

  • 1, 2000, when computer clocks will fail to recognize the year 2000.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Meanwhile one of the routine, strictly business clocks glimpsed through windows during the rounds of my unofficial beat could substitute for a watch.


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