Sentence examples for bought a clock from inspiring English sources

The boys couldn't tell time, so we bought a clock that resembles a traffic light.

I've sometimes thought that I should go out and buy a clock and present it to myself.

This month researchers discovered an account book reference to the 18th-century Windsor politician Oliver Ellsworth's buying a clock case made by his neighbor Thomas Hayden.

"You get into the car or buy a clock for your nightstand and push a button and radio comes out," he said.

When buying a clock these days, remember: children raised in a digital age might have to be reminded that it's time to go to school when the big hand is on 12 and the little hand is on 8. 1.

For the nightstand, you can buy a clock-radio-telephone.

I almost bought a time clock (just $259.99), so I could keep track of my own chronically unreliable work habits.

I could have bought a wall clock from the store, but where is the fun in that?

Another time, Bain bought a cuckoo clock company in Dubuque, then fired everybody and shut it down.

His second scheme usurping the rooster and squawking out a reveille every morning was briefly successful, until Mrs. Hoggett bought an alarm clock.

If you recently bought a new alarm clock, do a trial run to make sure it works and will wake you up.