Sentence examples for minute hand on from inspiring English sources

Arroyo lifts his left leg like a Rockette, as if it is the minute hand on a watch pointed at 10 o'clock.

The people sitting to your left and right would always be there, but you would move in relation to the person opposite, in a continuous flow that would be as imperceptible "as the movement of a minute hand on a watch".

To watch the shape-up of day laborers at one New York City intersection is to glimpse desperation, entrepreneurship and clannishness take form and then dissolve in three hours — three turns of the clock in the corner Dunkin' Donuts, 180 jumps of the minute hand on their scratched-up Casio wristwatches.

I gritted my teeth during the telling, hoping somehow that the minute hand on that famous Rolex clock above our heads would jump a half-hour ahead and find the round safely in progress before Leon embellished this nonstory even further.

A train supervisor once described this system as "kind of like watching the minute hand on a clock".

As the pitcher released the ball, his arm was like the minute hand on a clock at the top of the hour.

I don't wear a watch, so I must guesstimate how long I've been on the pot by following the minute hand of the clock on the wall, which is imprecise at best.

The end looked like this: five old guys sitting around a Chinese bakery, sipping coffee, the hour and minute hands on five wristwatches creeping together at the top of the dial.

Today we're looking at the Spacecraft Black by Romain Jerome, a driver's-style watch that is covered in black PVD and features a unique jump-hours display on the front edge and a rotating minutes hand on the top.

Croutons of Red Peppers And Brandade Total time: overnight soaking plus 30 minutes hands on 1 pound salt cod, cut into large pieces 4 ripe bell peppers 1/2 pound potatoes, peeled 2 cloves garlic, minced (green part removed) 1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil 1/2 cup hot milk Freshly ground white pepper to taste 1 long baguette, sliced and toasted in the oven 3 tablespoons chopped flat-leaf parsley.

The menu changes, it seems, on the turn of a minute hand – it depends on what's in season and what's good: turbot, perhaps, with cider butter and summer vegetables, kid meat "scrumpets" with hot mustard.