Example Sentences

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The night sky contains remarkably precise "cosmic clocks": pulsars, which are dense neutron stars that emit radio pulses at steady intervals, ticking like perfectly timed metronomes.

From Science Daily • Oct. 15, 2025

Ninety percent of bands use backing tracks and metronomes, but we play 100% live.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 11, 2024

After a few stressful spring weeks, they now operate more like metronomes.

From Washington Post • Jun. 30, 2022

As such inherent metronomes, time crystals may be a great future asset to precision timekeeping or quantum information processing.

From Scientific American • Mar. 9, 2022

In its crudest form, this exploitation of 'phasing’ could be demonstrated by setting off two pendulum metronomes at exactly the same time and precisely the same speed.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall