Sentence examples for clock to set from inspiring English sources

Greek armed forces were working around the clock to set up tent cities in fields at the border.

New York City's Board of Elections has been working around the clock to set up sites, find poll workers and prepare for a new primary on Tuesday.

When he spiked the ball to stop the clock to set up Adam Vinatieri's game-winning field goal as time expired in Super Bowl XXXVI, Brady caught the ball as it bounced and twirled it on his finger.

The South then took the ball to the North 5 on a 63-yard pass from West Virginia quarterback Mark Bulger to Texas A&M's Chris Cole, then ran down the clock to set up Kibble's field-goal attempt.

Earlier, outside Mosul, where allied aircraft have conducted a withering bombing campaign against the Iraqi garrison holding northwestern Iraq, a United States Special Forces officer, Lt. Col. Robert Waltemeyer, told reporters, "We will work around the clock to set the conditions for a political solution in Mosul".

Question: "I went to bed at 8 o'clock last night, and I wound up my clock to set the alarm to sound at 9 o'clock in the morning.

The substitution rates of each gene were estimated by codeml under a global clock model, to set the parameters of the gamma-Dirichlet prior for the overall rate.

The union and the Tony ceremony managers had been in a public standoff over the last 36 hours, with the clock ticking to set up the red carpet.

The machine screws matched the screws on a clock used to set off the bomb.

These machine screws matched the clock used to set off the bomb.

Images later circulated online of the clock used to set off the bomb and the supposed detonator.