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How to use the word Clocks in a Sentence?

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It didn’t matter at that point, i thought the game should’ve been over on the play before. It was six seconds on the clock. But we won’t talk about the clocks in Chicago here anymore.

Minnesota Vikings

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The past is gone, the future unknown, so set all your clocks n watches to - Right Now Time - and live your life in the Right Now.

Michael Levy

added by anonymous
2 years ago

There's no good reason to switch the clocks two times a year, now that we know it's killing people, it's time to act.

Scott Yates

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Money doesn’t sleep. Money doesn’t know about clocks, schedules or holidays, and you shouldn’t either.

Oscar Auliq-Ice

added by Auliq-Ice
4 years ago

Every single spacecraft exploring deep space today relies on navigation thats performed back here at Earth to tell it where it is and, much more importantly, where its going, we have to navigate from Earth because the clocks onboard spacecraft are really not good at accurately measuring time, but if we can change that, we can revolutionize the way that we can navigate deep space.

Jill Seubert

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

Blue light is the spectrum that signals the clock in the brain, and it is the spectrum that suppresses melatonin, melatonin is a hormone that plays an important role in maintaining the synchronization of the clocks in all our body's cells. Disruption of these clocks is thought to increase the risk of cancer.

Kristen Knutson

Found on CNN
6 years ago

If there’s no real reason why we’re doing something so big like changing our clocks back and forth every year, twice a year, then I don’t know why we can’t change it.

Greg Steube

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

Horology is the study of time, [Or] anyone who deals with clocks or any facet of time keeping.

Lindsay Rasberry

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

When GPS/GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) fail, transportation is impacted immediately. It slows down, becomes more dangerous, and every mode can carry less capacity, as short-term backup clocks start to desynchronize with each other ...  cell phone towers start to fail, IT networks slow down or fail, financial systems are impacted, management of the electrical grid becomes problematic. That is the really scary part.

Dana Goward

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As short-term backup clocks start to desynchronize with each other ...  cell phone towers start to fail, IT networks slow down or fail, financial systems are impacted, management of the electrical grid becomes problematic. That is the really scary part.

Dana Goward

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

As short-term backup clocks start to desynchronize with each other ... cell phone towers start to fail, IT networks slow down or fail, financial systems are impacted, management of the electrical grid becomes problematic. That is the really scary part.

Dana Goward

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

When GPS/GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) fail, transportation is impacted immediately. It slows down, becomes more dangerous, and every mode can carry less capacity, as short-term backup clocks start to desynchronize with each other ... cell phone towers start to fail, IT networks slow down or fail, financial systems are impacted, management of the electrical grid becomes problematic. That is the really scary part.

Dana Goward

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The circadian clock is the central conductor of the many clocks that are found in nearly all tissues of your body, this clock remains synchronized with the external day through regular exposure to light.

Jamie Zeitzer

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The time just passes quickly when we are involved with something that makes us pay more attention in moment than the clocks pointer.

L.F. Magister

added by L.F. Magister
8 years ago

We have everything from consumer electronics companies making things like speakers, radios, alarm clocks, through home appliance companies making cooker hoods, washing machines, to virtual reality in gaming companies. And we were very surprised at how keen the automotive industry is to work with us, i'd like to believe that the first product featuring our technology will be on the shelves in a year, that's our aim.

Tom Carter

Found on CNN
9 years ago

A lot of people keep snoozing alarm clocks and still can't wake up, our research shows that a one-minute talk to a stranger wakes your brain up with a 99% guarantee. When someone asks you questions in the morning your brain has to wake up to answer. Also you try to be kind, you try to turn on your social pattern of behavior. After the call you can't sleep anymore even if you had a short sleep.

Hrachik Adjamian

Found on CNN
9 years ago

We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.

Max Lerner

added by anonymous
10 years ago

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

E. E. Cummings

added by anonymous
10 years ago

It was a cold, bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen.

George Orwell, "1984", first sentence

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Hfiz

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Commencement speakers have a good deal in common with grandfather clocks Standing usually some six feet tall, typically ponderous in construction, more traditional than functional, their distinction is largely their noisy communication of essentially commonplace information.

W, Willard Wirtz

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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