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How to use the word timer in a Sentence?

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At last check, the pitch timer had reduced the average time of game in MiLB by about 26 minutes.

Major League Baseball

Found on CNN
1 year ago

All of these things are really interconnected in terms of their function. All of them are connected to the body clock, the body is like an orchestra where there's an orchestra leader that's sort of the main timer, but everybody else is playing it together and they're optimizing what they are doing.

Meir Kryger

Found on CNN
3 years ago

As a kid, I did want to be an old-timer, since they were the ones with the big stories and the cool clothes. I wanted to go there. Now, I guess I want to bring that with me and go back in time.

Tom Waits

added by RobertHaigh
3 years ago

The spacecraft was not on the timer we expected her to be on, we don't know if something happened to cause it to be that way.

Jim Chilton

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The bombs in these two areas were improvised explosive devices triggered by timer.

Police Colonel Kamtorn Uicharoen

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The person Hogan really has to beat is Trump, if it’s a referendum on Hogan, he wins. If it’s a referendum on Trump, he a one-timer.

Todd Eberly

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

CBS is catching up to the ‘Today Show’ because CBS made the daring gamble to be a little different, selecting an old-timer like Charlie Rose and doing long-format interviews aren’t what typically works in morning TV. But CBS has shown that not only is it OK to be different, it pays to be different if you want to distinguish yourself in a marketplace where most network news shows all look and sound alike.

Charlie Rose

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This seems to be a case of Facebook's wanting to slow the momentum of a smaller rival by adopting its core functionality. But you could argue that Snapchat didn't really have much intellectual property in the first place. It was more of a design idea: create a means to send photos with a timer on them.

Roger Kay

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

I didn't see it and it just went through me, i knew he was going to shoot a one-timer there, and I lost it ... It was a nice shot.

Petr Mrazek

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

Escape the safety of the small by taking the risks to become part of something bigger. Your true self demands it. Listen for the timer on the oven to sound—that's when the memory curtain parts, flashing moments that really mattered.

Kirby Wright

added by anonymous
9 years ago

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