Sentence examples for floating hour from inspiring English sources

One of the first unusual presentations was the wandering-hour clock, also called "floating hour dial" or "chronoscope," which became popular in the 17th century.

In 2000, Michel Parmigiani was asked by the Edouard and Maurice Sandoz Foundation, the arts branch of the Sandoz Family Foundation, to restore an early 19th-century yellow gold pocket watch with a floating hour dial by Perrin Frères, a watchmaking firm in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

For others it's a floating happy hour.

On September 18th we'll be discussing our schedule for this semester, including floating happy hours, coffee breaks, and lunch talks.

The findings also shed light on their love of Mediterranean cruises – which are essentially floating 24-hour bars – and why BBC dramas like Last Tango In Halifax are much easier on the eye after a massive gin with optional splash of tonic.

Actually, I'd rather sink quickly instead of floating for hours in the cold water until my heart eventually stopped.

Deprived of his usual morning activity, Mitchell spent the first hour floating around the ward.

Snow-laden trucks were sliding up to the booths at thirty miles an hour, floating on ice and sometimes missing the stop.

This summer, I spent an hour floating in a 4-by-8 isolation tank filled with tepid salt water in a basement in Manassas.

One by one, the Olympic ski jumpers launched themselves in training for Friday's opening competition, lifting off the ramp at nearly 55 miles an hour, floating more than the length of a football field, hands tucked at their side, their skis flared in a V-shape.

WHISTLER, British Columbia — One by one, the Olympic ski jumpers launched themselves in training for Friday's opening competition, lifting off the ramp at nearly 55 miles an hour, floating more than the length of a football field, hands tucked at their side, their skis flared in a V-shape.