Example Sentences

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Delphine laughs a little when I ask whether the change might feed into the notion of "clock-watching" civil servants.

From BBC • Jan. 30, 2022

They also knew that if they asked for permission to stop and get it, clock-watching mission managers would say no.

From New York Times • Jul. 27, 2021

I had just graduated college and gotten my first full-time job, and I was accustomed to obsessive clock-watching, terrified of arriving late and making a bad impression.

From Salon • Mar. 8, 2019

All right, Barton was not clock-watching, but the effect was the same.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2013

“But it’d be even dirtier to think of those clock-watching superegos being strapped to kids’ shoulders.

From The Creature from Cleveland Depths by Leiber, Fritz