Sentence examples for In a time out from inspiring English sources

(If you've never said, "Mom's in a time out!" I highly recommend it. That phrase can stop even a snarly teenager in their tracks).

The events in Jen Silverman's "Phoebe in Winter" happen in a time out of joint, when the world is in "a state of aftermath".

In 2004, a thirteen-year-old student hanged himself in a Time Out Room, an eight-by-eight concrete cell that could be locked from the outside.

And she would go everywhere with her trusted bicycle, which she had made for herself with the £250 she won in a Time Out competition in the 1970s with an essay on Gandhi – a considerable sum at the time.

Comedy writer Ben Williams asks Amstell about this period in a Time Out interview this week, and Amstell – now (mainly) a super-sensitive standup comedian – gives an interesting answer.

Isn't it time we raise our collective "mommy (and daddy) voices" and tell politicians they are in a time out until they start putting our kids first?

Janni is in a time-out in her bedroom.

The label for Mommy's Time Out features a chair turned toward a corner, as in a time-out, with a wine bottle and glass on a table.

Experiments consisted of a sequence of trials, each of which lasted a few seconds; successful trials resulted in a juice reward, unsuccessful trials in a time-out from 2 4 s.

In an elementary school in northeastern Pennsylvania, an 8-year-old boy in a special-education class was charged with disorderly conduct this fall for his behavior in a time-out room: urinating on the floor, throwing his shoes at the ceiling and telling a teacher, "Kids rule".

The Netherlands squad crowded around their manager, like basketball players in a time-out.