Sentence examples for timer to take from inspiring English sources

She often slept on a foam mattress in her office and set her timer to take night-time measurements during long-running experiments.

When he works, he sets up a tripod, strips off quickly, uses the timer to take a photograph, and is soon gone.

Set the timer, to take the picture, in a few seconds to prevent excess drain on the battery.

If your camera has a timer setting, place the camera on a solid surface and use the timer to take the photo.

It was a notion that looked totally lost on the Town players for more than 80 minutes as they allowed the Unibond Premier League part-timers to take control, displaying a confidence born out of their penalty shoot-out triumph over QPR in the previous round and a run of one defeat in their last 21 games.

Here's what you can do: Use a camera with a self-timer to take a photo of yourself in one location.

The ten second timer seemed to take forever.

I've set up the camera on a timer to start taking pictures from the third level of the tower at dawn.

The timer also reminds me to take breaks, and helps me construct my day without feeling I'm working either too much or too little.

"I am asking some of you old timers, the Gen-Xers, to take a breath and see how far things have come," the blogger Abhishek Tripathi wrote recently on sepiamutiny.com, a South Asian Web site.

Earlier break-reminder software programs, usually freeware or shareware available over the Web, functioned like egg timers, asking computer users to take a break at regular intervals, regardless of whether the user had been typing heavily or had spent the last hour at lunch.