Sentence examples for a clock over from inspiring English sources

The phrase "a clock over" is not correct and does not convey a clear meaning in written English.
It may be intended to describe the position of a clock in relation to something else, but it lacks context to be usable.
Example: "There was a clock over the fireplace, ticking softly."
Alternatives: "a clock above" or "a clock hanging over".

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When did Lexapro start making clocks, and why would any doctor choose such a clock over a Timex or a Seiko?

Promptly on the hour, as indicated by a clock over the door of his office — a small corner one on the seventeenth floor of the C.B.S. Building, on Madison Avenue — he strolls into an adjoining office that is occupied by Jesse Zousmer, a cheerful former newspaperman, who writes most of Murrow's copy for the news report that constitutes the first half of the program.

Now I didn't ask you that just for a joke or a sarcastic comment now did I? Well no, but look there's a clock over there, you are wearing a watch, you have a smartphone and a computer, all of which show the time.

Barkley told stories of things he'd said in the past that had got him in trouble such as: "I'd never buy my girl a watch … she's already got a clock over the stove" and that Col. Sanders is one of the black community's most revered heroes.

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However, with security for the coming trials needed "around the clock over a period of years," as the mayor wrote, it was difficult on Wednesday to discern how a 52-week security operation could cost just four times as much as security for an event lasting less than a week, like the political convention.

"If Wiggins is going to win the 11th gold of his career he will have to do something neither he, nor anybody else, has done for two years: beat Tony Martin against the clock over a significant distance.

We know you're joking, dad, but we'd still take your adorable "toddler alarm clock" over a real alarm clock any day!

The Colgate clock over in Jersey City read eight-twenty.

It starts the clock over again".

The four-hour post published five days before the start of 2017 is just a countdown clock over a looping stock graphic of a fire.

(The intricacy of the connections among them would stagger even a soap opera's script writer.) The second portrays the death-courting dinner party, the Ghost Supper, set to the fatal ticking of a clock and presided over by the Colonel (Per Myrberg) and his wife, known as the Mummy (the remarkable Gunnel Lindblom).

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