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