Example Sentences

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That other Greek concept is chronos, which refers to chronological or sequential time and is quantitative.

From Salon • Mar. 27, 2026

I am briefly jarred out of eternity and back into the ordinary — out of kairos, sacred time, and back into chronos, chronological time.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 20, 2024

Though that’s beautifully written, it’s hard to say with any precision what making a cut in chronos would do for our collective lives — or what it would even entail.

From Washington Post • Mar. 3, 2023

Two important aspects of plot structure regarding time in a memoir are chronos and kairos.

From Textbooks • Dec. 21, 2021

Apparently for this reason commentators have proposed to translate, chronos ouk estai eti, "the time shall not be yet," or "time shall no more intervene."

From An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality by Challis, James