Sandglass

Word SANDGLASS
Character 9
Hyphenation sand glass
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Sandglass"

What do we mean by sandglass?

An instrument for measuring the passage of time by the passage of sand through a narrow opening.

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The word "sandglass" in example sentences

The set designer explains that the sandglass chamber was not meant to be disassembled, but stuff like this happens all the time on a movie production - making the impossible possible. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He glanced at the sandglass that he had turned over just moments ago and then thoughtfully back to the Masterharper. ❋ McCaffrey, Anne (2006)

To look out fairly was impossible; for not only was all the lower part of the frame hillocked up like a sandglass, and the sides filled in with dusky plaits, but even in the middle, where some outlook was, it led to very little. ❋ Richard Doddridge (2004)

“J” pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William ❋ Unknown (2003)

After Skent returned with the two scrolls and she signed and sealed the original and sent Fridric off with it, Anna glanced at the sandglass on the wall stand, nearing the eighth glass of the day. ❋ Modesitt, L. E. (1998)

The consultation took some little time, the second half of one sandglass and the beginning of the next. ❋ Forester, C. S. (1958)

Frequently we read by an old spoiled sandglass, which runs in a minute or two. ❋ Unknown (1917)

This would, however, be imperceptible so long as their lengths were not measured by some accurate mechanical time-measurer such as a clepsydra, sandglass, pendulum, or spring clock. ❋ Unknown (1889)

Partridge squatted beside the ring with a sandglass — used for timing the casting of the log — in front of him. ❋ Marryat, Frederick, 1792-1848 (1873)

Countdown screen is supplemented with a picture of sandglass where the sand pours out as time goes. ❋ Unknown (2009)

If it is true that the sea was once upon a time our native element, into which we must plunge our cooling blood if we are to recover our strength, it is the same with the oblivion, the mental non-existence of sleep; we seem then to absent ourselves for a few hours from Time, but the forces which we have gathered in that interval without expending them, measure it by their quantity as accurately as the pendulum of the clock or the crumbling pyramid of the sandglass. ❋ Unknown (2003)

We’re explained that this will be the sandglass chamber. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a box containing the remainder of a gross of gilt "J" pennibs, obtained from same department of same firm: an old sandglass which rolled containing sand which rolled: a sealed prophecy (never unsealed) written by Leopold Bloom in 1886 concerning the consequences of the passing into law of William Ewart Gladstone's Home Rule bill of 1886 (never passed into law): a bazaar ticket, no 2004, of S. Kevin's Charity Fair, price ❋ James Joyce (1911)

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