Example Sentences

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"I wasn't clock-watching but I knew they were not given straight away," she said.

From BBC • Mar. 27, 2025

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

Their conversation, complete with biological clock-watching, is a Bechdel test disaster, but the play isn’t really interested in the women, anyway.

From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2017

While the story unfolds at a relatively mañana pace, an endless pulse – or several different ones – gives the piece a restless, clock-watching urgency.

From The Guardian • Aug. 16, 2012

“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