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clock Noun

— A clock is an instrument that tells you what the time is. A small clock which you carry is called a watch. He was sleepy, and the clock said 11:32. The digital clock on the wall tells her that it is almost six-thirty. She'd never before been in a house which did not have a clock ticking somewhere. — # If a clock is fast, it shows a time after the real time. — #: He looked at the clock and then at his watch: The clock was nine minutes fast. He still had some time. — # If a clock is slow, it shows a time before the real time. — If something goes around the clock, it goes for 24 hours without stop. His family stayed at Scott's bedside around the clock. The museum is open around the clock from May 26 at 12:01 a.m. through May 28 at 11:59 p.m.

clock Verb

— If you clock something, you measure how long it takes or how fast it moves. The police clocked the car at 137 km/h. The drive took twenty-two minutes; he clocked it. — If something clocks a time or a speed, it takes that long or moves that fast. The trip clocks in at about 12 hours. He clocked 9.12 seconds, a new world record. — If you clock in or out at work, school, etc., you record the time they arrive or leave. He clocked in at four a.m. for a twelve-hour shift. — If you clock up a number of things, you reach that total after some time. Because I drive one hour to work, I'm clocking up a lot of miles. — If you clock someone, you hit them hard in the head. He might take some time to wake up. He got clocked pretty good.

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How do I use o''clock in a sentence?

Simple sentences

You must come back before nine o'clock.

It's almost six o'clock.

Although we waited until ten o'clock, Bill never showed up.

We talked till after eleven o'clock.

I'll stay there till six o'clock.

I leave home before eight o'clock every morning.

This shop is open from 9 to 6 o'clock.

On school nights, Tom goes to bed at nine o'clock, but on Fridays and Saturdays, he stays up much later.

It's eleven o'clock.

When Tom was working on the dairy farm, he had to get up at five o'clock every morning to go and milk the cows.

The film started at 2 o'clock.

I make it a rule not to watch television after nine o'clock.

Banks open at nine o'clock.

Make sure that you arrive at seven o'clock.

The meeting will start at four o'clock sharp.

I managed to catch the 8 o'clock train by running all the way to the station.

Rosie was allowed to stay up till eleven o'clock.

It's already ten o'clock at night.

It is almost 12 o'clock.

The meeting began at nine o'clock sharp.

We retire at eleven o'clock.

The movie starts at ten o'clock.

I'll come at three o'clock if it is convenient to you.

Movie subtitles

I need to have it on a weekday, between nine in the morning and four o'clock while the kids are at school and Marcus is down the depot.

Little Mrs Sengupta's water's broke at four o'clock this morning.

At nine o'clock the following evening a mysterious barouche stopped on the rotunda side of the Opera.

Leave me a call for three o'clock.

Yes, at five o'clock in the morning.

Every morning at 10 o'clock he calls us, and at 12 o'clock he's still having breakfast.

Demoiselle. I have the honour and the pleasure to announce his majesty's visit this afternoon at 4 o'clock.

It's nearly seven o'clock.

And it's nearly seven o'clock.

Seven o'clock!

Three o'clock, thereabouts.

Miss Newsome, I must ask, where were you at three o'clock?