Device to measure the passage of time.
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Examples for "sand clock"
Examples for "sand clock"
1When he got back he was awake sitting in the sand watching him.
2She sat on the sand watching the road and when she waved to the car it pulled over.
1It will also ship with a sand timer.
2You can use the sand timer instead of the CD, but it's harder to keep an eye on that while you're racing around the temple.
3You've got sand timers which limit your actions, and one main timer which indicates how often the ship takes damage.
4The key mechanic of the game is in the sand timers which tell you when you can take an action.
1Once more granules drain from top portion of the hour glass .
2Upon the tomb is an hour glass, and on this are crossbones.
3Only a few sands now remained in the half- hour glass.
4Knocker turned the half- hour glass by the binnacle and said, "Ready, sir."
5Three cups were on the table, and coffee for three was mounting in the hour glass.
1He conducted them to its farther end and paused before a large sand glass.
2Charlemagne, I have read, had a sand glass so large that it needed to be turned only once in twelve hours.
3They were experimenting when I came away on sanded glass for road beds.
4At the South Kensington Museum is a set of four large sand glasses evidently made to go together.
Translations for sand glass