Sentence examples for close the clock from inspiring English sources

All measurements of time will depend on how close the clock is to one of the other stars, and so on.

In another spot, shoppers are amazed that a brick-and-mortar store is closed; the clock reads 3 a.m.

The curtains were almost entirely closed, the clock barely visible, the fluorescent lights glaring.

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.

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

Having pinned Australia in their own 22 with two minutes on the clock, Wales could not close the deal.

Child, 27, was roared around the Glasgow track by a passionate home crowd but could not quite close the gap on Spencer, who clocked 54.10 seconds.

Mr. Stanley said the gates would be closed round the clock until next Monday – "if all goes well".

The closest the clock has ever been to midnight or doom was in 1953, after the US and Soviet Union detonated thermonuclear weapons.

Not surprisingly, a week into the new administration, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock half a minute closer toward catastrophe – the closest the clock has been to "midnight" since 1953.

Scientists with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced Tuesday that the Doomsday Clock is to remain at three minutes to midnight - the closest the clock has been to midnight in twenty years.