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Example sentences for "timekeeper"

Lexicographically close words:
timbre; timbrel; timbrels; timbres; timed; timekeepers; timekeeping; timeless; timeliness; timely
  1. And Mr. Harmon called a timekeeper and said, "Take this man to Pat Murphy and tell him to find room for him somehow.

  2. He went into the office building, where a company timekeeper interviewed him.

  3. The bonding company gives us a check which should enable us, under a proper system of inspection, to have the timekeeper practically the paymaster.

  4. You ought to make your timekeeper give you one of those brass checks there and pay you eighteen cents an hour for that work.

  5. He stood looking up through the upper floors of the cupola, and he did not see Max until the timekeeper stood beside him.

  6. The timekeeper likewise made the longitude 18 degrees 47 minutes east.

  7. The ship was 3 degrees 22 minutes in longitude to the eastward of the dead reckoning, which the timekeeper almost invariably proved to be owing to a current giving us more easting than the log.

  8. The timekeeper I took on shore to ascertain its rate, and other instruments to make the necessary astronomical observations.

  9. On the 29th, being ready for sea, I took the timekeeper and instruments on board.

  10. Living, as he did, not far from the sea, Harrison next endeavoured to arrange his timekeeper for purposes of navigation.

  11. He took his timekeeper to pieces in their presence, and deposited in their hands correct drawings of the same, with the parts, so that other skilful makers might construct similar chronometers on the same principles.

  12. He usually acted as timekeeper at the school sports, when the stop-watch was very much to the fore.

  13. Give this to Hasluck, in the presence of the timekeeper Leveson and as many other menials of the Fifth as thou canst find.

  14. This he failed to do, and he in his turn parted with the timekeeper to another buyer, who had finally committed suicide with the watch still in his pocket.

  15. When I came to search the clothing of the poor fellow picked up, the timekeeper was found in his pocket.

  16. I could tell you exactly what the difficulty is;--which would be as intelligible and amusing as a watchmaker's description of a diseased timekeeper to a ploughman.

  17. Warning should be given by the timekeeper two minutes, one minute, and thirty seconds before time is up.

  18. The player about to move stands at attention a yard behind his back line until the timekeeper says "Go.

  19. The hoarse Dublin United Tramway Company's timekeeper bawled them off: --Rathgar and Terenure!

  20. The timekeeper turned away from the rivals and held me up.

  21. This man was the timekeeper for Cambridge, and indeed was no other than Clarke's friend, one of the breakfast-party that morning.

  22. And so the ball see-sawed back and forth until the piping whistle of the timekeeper announced the close of the third quarter.

  23. Far away and muffled he heard, amid the murmurs of the multitude, the fateful voice of the timekeeper counting off the seconds.

  24. His chair and his hat were both tilted at an extreme angle; he and the timekeeper smiled at each other.

  25. In one store the fines amounted to $3,000 in a year, and the sum was divided between the superintendent and timekeeper; and the superintendent was heard to charge the timekeeper with not being strict enough in his duties.

  26. In some stores the fines are divided at the end of the year between the timekeeper and the superintendent, and there is thus every temptation to injustice.

  27. The fact that this egg-shaped concoction was no great timekeeper was a secondary matter.

  28. This financial spur, together with the faith it represented, stimulated the patient instrument-maker to fashion a second timekeeper on which he spent four years of hard work.

  29. Moreover, perched up there in the sight of all London to serve as the chief timekeeper of the city, it could not be allowed to indulge in whims and caprices lest the populace be led astray by its inaccuracies and turn to cursing it.

  30. It was like this: "When I lived in Glasgow, I knew a young fellow there who was timekeeper in a shipyard.

  31. At daylight weighed and stood to the north-north-east, kept tacking occasionally to windward as it was my wish to get sight of the island we last watered at chiefly to ascertain whether the Timekeeper had kept its rate.

  32. The logbooks do not record to what use the bell was put, but whether it served as a timekeeper or to call the people to worship, it was doubtless highly valued by the early Tasmanian colonists.

  33. And I have noticed that he's the fellow who invariably takes a timekeeper as an insult.

  34. So I raised his salary, and made him an assistant timekeeper and checker.

  35. It is probable that, in a design expressly intended to commemorate Galileo's inventions, Viviani would have introduced the timekeeper in the most perfect form to which it had been brought by him.


  36. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "timekeeper" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.