alarm clocks
- plural of alarm clock.
Example Sentences
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All breakfast presenters in any part of the world become used to answering questions from viewers and interviewers about their start-up routine: the multiple alarm-clocks, protein shakes and toddler-like bed times.
From The Guardian • Jan. 19, 2011
III It was the best of nationally advertised and quantitatively produced alarm-clocks, with all modern attachments, including cathedral chime, intermittent alarm, and a phosphorescent dial.
From Babbitt by Lewis, Sinclair
Through the morning bedlam of alarm-clocks, slamming doors, the rattle of ash-cans, and the internal disorders of a rooming-house, came the voice a-whispering to Della.
From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie
It had been an exciting day for all of them, and, as Kitty expressed it, they were all wound up like alarm-clocks.
From The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation by Barry, Etheldred B. (Etheldred Breeze)
The next morning a dozen alarm-clocks went off within a few minutes of each other.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Stuck, Hudson
