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hourglass

[ UK /ˈa‍ʊ‍əɡlɑːs/ ]
[ US /ˈaʊɝˌɡɫæs/ ]
NOUN
  1. a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

How To Use hourglass In A Sentence

  • An expensive chronometer would help here, but one or more well-made hourglasses will also do just fine.
  • Wear them with a leather waspie for extra hourglass appeal.
  • In a typical moment, Blanche, the vain Southern belle played by Rue McClanahan, preens, "One thing I know for sure, I have not lost my hourglass figure. Slate Magazine
  • The invention of timekeeping devices - hourglasses, water clocks, graduated tapers - made it possible for early civilized people to begin to control and standardize the units of time, and in doing so to coordinate their lives.
  • A suit with gathered fabric across the waistline can create the illusion of an hourglass figure in a woman who would like to look curvier.
  • MN This instrument showed the time with more accuracy than the hourglass, the clepsydra or the water-clock. Sailing on and on
  • A black widow spider has a distinctive red hourglass marking on its stomach.
  • Like sand in an hourglass, simultaneously pulled in both directions by the mysterious appetite of a two-headed gravity.
  • The perfect hourglass figure really does take some fine tuning though. The Sun
  • Hourglass repeats this brushwork in more, colors, including green and lavender, and with shorter, thinner strokes that in their numerousness convey a feeling of frenzy that's amplified by the uneven diagonal sides of the canvases.
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