How To Use Grandfather clock In A Sentence
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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.
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Behind him an antique grandfather clock slowly ticks away.
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Looking to the antique grandfather clock in the hallway, I raised a brow.
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The furnishing is spartan but includes an immense grandfather clock which strikes the hour with a shattering noise.
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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.
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As he moved the beam, the shadow of the grandfather clock in the hall twisted and grew across the ceiling.
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A grandfather clock ticked away in a corner.
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She hears the grandfather clock chiming, but when she looks at it, it is running backwards.
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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.
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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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The ticktock of the grandfather clock was slightly unnerving.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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He told his granddaughter that she had to wind his grandfather clock every day without fail, but he wouldn't give her a reason.
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The pendulum of the grandfather clock sways as the second hand moves seemingly unbearably slow.
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It's like my biological clock had turned into a massive grandfather clock and instead of ticking it was bonging!
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The grandfather clock in the corner struck eleven o'clock and let out a deep bong sound.
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Convinced he is bound to be bored, he has a pleasant surprise when, one night, the grandfather clock strikes 13 and he finds himself in a beautiful and mysterious garden.
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In a post-industrial London, Whitecapel has been walled off by the strange deific figure known as Grandfather Clock, inscrutible and unwilling consort to the even more unfathomable Mama Engine.
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The grandfather clock chimed five times, five heavy, drawn-out peals.
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We all turned to look at the wheezy grandfather clock in the hall.
MY BABYSITTER BITES BACK
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Trying to replace them is like trying to replace the foot from a beautiful old grandfather clock.
Times, Sunday Times
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It had all the things that go to make the best farm-kitchens: such as red bricks and heavy smoke-blackened beams, and a deep hearth with a great fire on it and settles inside, from which one could look up at the chimney-shaft to the sky, and clay pipes and spills alongside, and a muller for wine or beer; and hams and sides of bacon and strings on onions and bunches of herbs; much pewter, and a copper warming-pan, and brass candlesticks, and a grandfather clock; a cherrywood dresser and wheelback chairs polished with age; and a great scrubbed oaken table to seat a harvest-supper, planed from a single mighty plank.
Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard
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I was hurriedly winding our grandfather clock when, in my carelessness, the pendulum disconnected.
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I heard the bong of the grandfather clock.
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They were hidden from burglars in the base of the grandfather clock.
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The grandfather clock was a fixture in their home.
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My eyes kept roving to the grandfather clock from time to time.
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Both farangs were then arrested after failing to agree which one of them should pay 9,000 baht for damage to a grandfather clock and a bar mirror.
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He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.
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Finally, above where their grandfather clock used to be, there was a cut-out of a square.
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The grandfather clock in an oak case is one of seven clocks and two barometers in the house.
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Adel and Doug entered the house just as the large grandfather clock struck twelve.
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Officers found an antique, double-barrelled Derringer hidden in a walnut grandfather clock in his bedroom.
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This concussive approach is more pronounced on ‘Sticks and Nails’, where resonant metallic pings and tongs sound off like broken grandfather clock chimes.
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Trying to replace them is like trying to replace the foot from a beautiful old grandfather clock.
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Police found the antique gun in a grandfather clock at Holy Rood vicarage in Swinton.
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One can discern in the mirror other objects in the room such an end table, a sculpted bust, an oil lamp, an oval portrait and a grandfather clock.
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Officers found an antique, double-barrelled Derringer hidden in a walnut grandfather clock in his bedroom.
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The grandfather clock's never ending ticks echoed throughout the pub.
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They were hidden from burglars in the base of the grandfather clock.
Times, Sunday Times
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A chiming grandfather clock is all that is lacking to complete a scene redolent of a bygone era framed by stuffiness and reserve.
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The solemnly ticking grandfather clock by the door said two minutes to the half hour when Charles heard the Bishop approaching.
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Adel and Doug entered the house just as the large grandfather clock struck twelve.
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What do you call a grandfather clock?
The Sun
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The pendulum in the grandfather clock swung back and forth.
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In the corner of his elegant, third-floor City of London sanctum, just behind his antique desk, there is a grandfather clock marking time.
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A grandfather clock has a pendulum that helps it work.
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Mama Engine is in the middle of her "Great Work" and refashioning Whitechapel into a gritty and grotesque landscape, while Grandfather Clock keeps a kind of orderliness through his own minions and his all-seeing presence.
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The tick of the grandfather clock echoed in from the corner.
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This country-style grandfather clock, like our wall-mounted schoolhouse clock, is well but very simply made using only ordinary tools and materials.
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Officers found an antique, double-barrelled Derringer hidden in a walnut grandfather clock in his bedroom.
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Also stolen were a grandfather clock, which had been in the widower's family since the 19th Century, an antique mirror and a silver canteen of cutlery.
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A large pendulum swung back and forth inside the grandfather clock.
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It was hot, sticky day in the French capital and the match began with the stately tempo of a grandfather clock's pendulum.
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the grandfather clock beat midnight
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He sat listening to the tick of the grandfather clock.
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` Leander, what would you ask to repair me old grandfather clock that's'ere in me kitchen the'undred years past.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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A grandfather clock ticked away in a corner.
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The ticktock of the grandfather clock was slightly unnerving.
THE KILL CLAUSE
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As he moved the beam, the shadow of the grandfather clock in the hall twisted and grew across the ceiling.
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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.
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A Louis XV secretaire desk and chest of drawers recently went for $800, a third of what it could have sold for in the recent past; and 19th-century grandfather clocks now sell for as little as $1,500, down from about $3,500 a year ago.
New Bargains on Old Furniture
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The grandfather clock in the corner of the room announced the arrival of midnight with twelve, hollow dongs.
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The pendulum in the grandfather clock swung back and forth.
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She eyed at the grandfather clock, which would have been a wonderful corner piece had it been in a wainscoted library, but was grossly out of place in a bare living room decorated by light wood accents.
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What do you call a grandfather clock?
The Sun
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The pendulum in the grandfather clock swung back and forth.
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Behind him an antique grandfather clock slowly ticks away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Trying to replace them is like trying to replace the foot from a beautiful old grandfather clock.
Times, Sunday Times
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A bell chimed from a grandfather clock in the corner of the room.
