Example sentences for: clocks

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

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

  • Newsweek picks the 11 most important ideas of the past 2,000 years, including the stirrup, plumbing, the printing press, numbers, erasers, and clocks, but not electricity.

  • 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.

  • An artist who takes a bite out of his own painting, and who derives his subject matter from a dream, is, in some sense, a private artist; and the later work, as Varnedoe has organized it, suggests an increasing absorption in a personal vocabulary composed of body parts; crosshatching patterns (an overworked motif of the 1970s); vases; clocks; skulls; specific borrowings from Duchamp, Picassso, Holbein, and a 16 th -century Grünewald altarpiece; little stick figures with bubble heads; and, in the most recent work, the image of a spiral galaxy.

  • If the employee is not recording his or her T&A data, the basis for recording the data could be (1) the timekeeper's or supervisor's observation, (2) time clocks, or other automated timekeeping devices, where not prohibited by law, or (3) other applicable techniques.


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