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grandfather clock

NOUN
  1. a pendulum clock enclosed in a tall narrow case

How To Use grandfather clock In A Sentence

  • This discovery led to the invention of the pendulum and various timepieces such as the Grandfather clock, but at the time Galileo could not explain it.
  • Behind him an antique grandfather clock slowly ticks away. Times, Sunday Times
  • Looking to the antique grandfather clock in the hallway, I raised a brow.
  • The furnishing is spartan but includes an immense grandfather clock which strikes the hour with a shattering noise.
  • It just seemed to me that it would be more interesting to have things like submarine sonars and old grandfather clocks and lines from famous movies and bird songs and things like that.
  • As he moved the beam, the shadow of the grandfather clock in the hall twisted and grew across the ceiling.
  • A grandfather clock ticked away in a corner.
  • She hears the grandfather clock chiming, but when she looks at it, it is running backwards.
  • There is something beautifully reassuring about the presence of an antique grandfather clock in a home; it makes a statement about permanence and comfort that's hard to beat.
  • An elaborate mantelpiece framed the hearth in a dizzying array of swirls and curlicues, and a tall grandfather clock lurked in the corner like a brooding sentry, counting out the seconds with a gloomy tock, tock, tock.
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