Sentence examples for closest the clock from inspiring English sources
The closest the clock has ever come to midnight was in 1953, when it reached 11 58 after the United States tested its first hydrogen bomb.
The closest the clock has ever been to midnight or doom was in 1953, after the US and Soviet Union detonated thermonuclear weapons.
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.
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.
This is the closest the clock has been set to midnight since 1953, when it was at 11 48 PM because the Americans and Soviets were testing hydrogen bombs above ground.
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.
All measurements of time will depend on how close the clock is to one of the other stars, and so on.
If there is more than one person in the bed, he said, it measures the one closest to the clock (which I didn't test).
Mr. Stanley said the gates would be closed round the clock until next Monday – "if all goes well".
Getting up, I accidentally leaned close to the clock radio only to realize that it was set to one of those stations that offers supposedly soothing "sounds of nature".
