wristwatch
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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No matter how much capability can be crammed into a wristwatch or eyeware or computer chip under your skin, customers will value the additional capability contained in a package that slips in your pocket.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
The Timex Ironman is a digital wristwatch popularized in the 1980s.
From Slate ● Jan. 25, 2026
She also allegedly received luxury jewellery, a painting by famed South Korean minimalist painter Lee Ufan, a Dior handbag and a wristwatch.
From Barron's ● Dec. 29, 2025
Then he announced he had a surprise for the kiddo he had nicknamed “Big Ben,” thanks to a sonogram picture he saw where the baby was the same length as a wristwatch.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 17, 2025
A child’s plastic wristwatch with the time painted on it.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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