Sentence examples for clock close from inspiring English sources

Having gotten the key stop on defense, John Harbaugh then made a canny gamble by having his team deliberately take a safety with the clock close to zero, conceding two points to the 49ers but making it almost impossible for them to score again.

Grocery stores that formerly were open around the clock, close at 5pm.

As the clock closed in on midnight, I signaled to Lorne that I had to leave.

When the door by the grandfather clock closed, and we were alone, the President began by saying, "I want to talk about Mike Flynn".

"When the door by the grandfather clock closed, and we were alone, the President began by saying, 'I want to talk about Mike Flynn.' Flynn had resigned the previous day.

Did the defense intellectuals of the nineteen-fifties, in their efforts to calculate ways of preventing nuclear war, actually push the hands of the clock closer to midnight?

"When this year began, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved its risk-estimate Doomsday Clock closer to apocalyptic midnight than at any time since 1953.

With Brady throwing just once, on third down, the Patriots were able to drain the clock to close out the game.

The Liberty quieted the crowd of 17,715 with some sharp shooting by Phillips and timely baskets by Weatherspoon, including a 3-point heave with three-tenths of a second on the clock to close the half.

"I believe it's just about the only thing President Bill Clinton's ever done that I agreed with," Mr. Pence said during a debate that year, adding that "the right course is not to turn back the clock, to close our borders," but rather to recognize "that trade means jobs".

One to run down the clock and close the door on any Poland threat.