Sentence examples for hands of a clock from inspiring English sources

A shadow on a dial; the moving hands of a clock; the chiming of a bell.

They lie down and tick their legs to the side, like the hands of a clock.

Pekarcik said she would let us know where the whales were based on the hands of a clock.

For example, the reference position for the hands of a clock is at the numeral 12, and the minute hand has a period of one hour.

When the food arrived, Felix told Bella where she could find the different items on her plate by the hands of a clock.

Everything was fragmented, disconnected". She could recite film scripts, but not grasp the relationship between the hands of a clock to tell the time.

As a lonely, disconsolate boy, he had watched container ships and tankers turn with the tide, watched them all day long, out his grandfather's window, as if in their slow turning they were the hands of a large clock, a clock madly trying to mark time on a face of water.

His action when he takes back his club calls to mind a hitch in the second hand of a clock.

Picture a line which can turn around one of its ends, like the hand of a clock.

Draw a line through this point that just misses the cake, as below, and then rotate this line clockwise around the point like the hand of a clock.

He kept the knife steady by placing the fingers of his left hand on top, guiding the knife up and down in a semicircle across the cutting board as if it were the hand of a clock.