Sentence examples for clock arrived from inspiring English sources

But when the new, revolutionary, easy-to-program clock arrived the afternoon before, I promptly set the alarm for 5 a.m. just to test it and forgot to turn it off before going to bed.

The shot clock arrived in 1986, a year after Villanova's masterly night, and the maximum time has moved down from 45 seconds to 35 seconds, forcing teams to shoot the ball sooner, taking away the edge from patience.

They're not the type to be especially flowery but they wrote lovely letters.' A week or so later an elegant clock arrived in the post, engraved 'Ben and Dick, December 21st 2005'.

Rolex made the first waterproof watch in 1926 and a year later the ultra-accurate quartz-crystal controlled clock arrived.

As soon as the clock arrived and was set up, it began keeping time more accurately than any timepiece before ever located on the North American continent.

The tower's 4000 pound clock arrived by rail in August from New Haven, Connecticut although the tower was not ready to accommodate the timepiece until October.

Particularly on westbound traffic, analysts said, the Concorde is attractive to corporate executives and investment bankers since it enables them to cheat the clock, arriving in New York at an earlier local hour than they left London or Paris.

A generation of caviar-fed Wall Street bankers, Hollywood stars and other celebrities have relished flying high enough to see the earth's curvature and beating the clock, arriving in New York an hour or two earlier than they departed Europe.

Throughout, furniture, pictures and grandfather clocks arrived from all over the world, along with Swedish ceramic stoves and Staffordshire figurines.

But when their turn on the clock finally arrived, they traded the pick to the Oakland Raiders for the 89th and 217th picks.

Driving around the clock, they arrived at Marina Cove in Ventura on Tuesday, itching for a glimpse of Southern California's fabled beaches.