clock on
Britishverb
Example Sentences
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I’m willing to negotiate a trade right now: Give us decent bedside charging, and I will gratefully relinquish every last hotel alarm clock on the planet.
Betsie pointed to the Frisian clock on the stair wall, and with a finger on her lips silently opened the dining room door.
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The clock on the wall ticked loudly in the silence.
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The owner of the S&P 500 index is licensing the world’s most tracked stock index for the launch of a derivative contract that trades around the clock on the crypto exchange Hyperliquid.
Miss Lacey kept checking the big clock on the wall as she inspected each model.
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