Sentence examples for clock round from inspiring English sources
· Saturday sees the Prologue, when riders race individually against the clock round a five-mile course between Whitehall and Hyde Park.
In spite of its etymology (Latin prae-positio "before placing"), a preposition may sometimes follow the noun it governs, as in all the world over, slept the clock round, and the whole place through.
He agreed to trailer the car up to the Staffordshire track and supervise my novice attempt to drive flat out, against the clock, round the U-shaped stretch of Tarmac.
I'm not sure what I was expecting, walking into the house, but it certainly wasn't a throng of young children dressed in Chinese costumes and a rabbi with comedy contact lenses and a large clock round his neck, looking like a kosher hip-hop star.
Now the imminent world, with its round-the-clock, round-the-hour schedule of crises and casualties and unfolding disasters, does not permit even a two-minute timeout.
A third is the need for speed: the Internet, with its round-the-clock, round-the-week availability, raises customer expectations.
According to Schuster, E. R. Thomas asserted that the race had cost him $100,000 — and "we just don't have that kind of money" — as justification for not paying the driver the $10,000 to which he felt entitled for six months of round-the-clock, round-the-world work.
Over this trio hangs a plain round clock.
There is a large round clock on the wall that makes a ticking noise — ticktock, ticktock.
The humanities major glances up at the big round clock on the back wall.
