How to use "clock" in a sentence

It's just after three o'clock on Sunday, April the 27th, 2003

The party ended at around two o'clock the next morning, but there was still no sign of Aron.

'I'll wait until nine o'clock tomorrow morning

I haven't had any clean water since eight o'clock yesterday morning, only urine

The clock above read 9.07 am

I look at the clock on the wall.

It was in the afternoon, and the man behind the bar said, Jenny'll be here about nine o'clock.'

Then, at about nine o'clock, a car stopped near the house and some people got out

The train got into Mobile station about three o'clock in the morning, and Sue and I got off

At 9 o'clock on that Thursday night a great fire in London Docks changed the colour of the sky in the East End of London to a deep red

Mrs Purkiss was awake most of the night, and Mr Purkiss slept badly and was awake between one and two o'clock, but they heard nothing

By six o'clock he was ready for work and went downstairs to the backyard

She asked him the time and he said nearly one o'clock, which was about the time of Elizabeth Stride's murder.

Returning at 3 o'clock, she saw no light in Mary's room, and all was quiet

When Sarah Lewis passed Christ Church near Dorset Street, the church clock struck 2.30

She slept badly in a chair until 3.30, when she heard the clock strike, and was awake until nearly five o'clock

On November 12th a labourer named George Hutchinson gave the police a very good description of a man he saw with Mary Kelly at about 2 o'clock on the morning of her murder

But they did not come out, so he went away as the church clock struck three o'clock.

By 11 o'clock that morning, one reporter wrote, it seemed that the whole of the East End was 'out of doors'

When he woke up, the cathedral clock was striking two, but he had not woken because of this

But, as the church bells of the city struck eleven o'clock, something made him look back

'He said he'll be here at six o'clock, with sixty francs

It was nearly six o'clock

Suddenly, at exactly six o'clock, the door into the Jondrettes' room opened.

Not later than nine o'clock.'

At nine o'clock that evening, Marius crept into the garden of Cosette's house, but she was not there waiting for him as she had promised

What he sees inside looks just like from the movies: the clock, the wires and the heavy packs of something horrible and dangerous

Inside the room everything is silent, apart from the slow and constant tick of the small clock on the wall, and the fast, irregular beat of your heart.

You try to see the clock in the dark, but it is impossible, and you think that it must be somewhere between four and six o'clock: the darkest hours of the night when even the lively and vibrant city of Manchester sleeps.

But when he didn't come to breakfast this morning, we began to worry." Smith looks at the clock

She looks at the electronic clock.

She can get it as she passes the restaurant, buy a bottle of wine from the local shop and be in bed by ten o'clock.

There was a clock in the car

I had slept well and came downstairs a little after nine o'clock

At about two o'clock, Robert brought me a message

About ten o'clock, the telephone rang again

The little clock by my bed ticked away the minutes

I fell asleep at about seven o'clock

When I looked at my watch again, it was three o'clock

The inquest was at two o'clock

It was five o'clock

Hairdressers at twelve o'clock

And then - Baker - two o'clock

'Nine o'clock?' he said

I woke up early the following morning at about six o'clock

At nine o'clock exactly, Frank brought up Colonel Julyan in his car.

We had lunch somewhere and reached London at about three o'clock

We reached Baker's house at about five o'clock

'I saw a Mrs Danvers on the 12th at two o'clock,' Dr Baker said at last.

We can be at Manderley by two o'clock.'

'It begins at eight o'clock.'

At ten o'clock in the morning, she was scheduled to meet with two tour-booking agents who were considering reserving eight thousand tickets to Magyck! During the first three months of its run

Then at one o'clock, the entire cast and the crew would assemble for the final dress rehearsal.

At a few minutes past eleven o'clock, a secretary from San Diego put five dollars in a slot machine and hit a jackpot worth $495,000; word of that even reached backstage in the showroom

A clock ticked softly.

The final curtain came down at eight minutes till ten o'clock, and the ovation continued until after Tina's wristwatch had marked the hour

Although no second show was scheduled this evening, as would be the case every night henceforth, busboys and waitresses were busily clearing tables, resetting them with fresh linen and silverware for the following night's eight o'clock performance.

Tina didn't get home from the opening-night party until shortly before two o'clock Wednesday morning

It wasn't even five o'clock

She didn't dream anymore, and when she woke at ten o'clock, she was refreshed and newly excited by the previous night's success.

"But if you just put your name on our work list, we'll most likely have a man there by four o'clock this afternoon, tomorrow morning at the latest

She'd work for another hour, until five o'clock, and then go home

Eventually he fell asleep, but at four o'clock in the morning, he was awakened by cries of distress.

At one o'clock Elliot drove his silver Mercedes S600 sports coupe to the New Year's Day party on Sunrise Mountain

By four o'clock, he was home again, working in the kitchen

At ten o'clock, he was awakened by the telephone

He arrived at eight o'clock that evening.

Then I saw that the hands of the clock pointed to a quarter to five, which meant that it was really half-past four, so I got up and went to the sitting room

'When he fell forward, the clock was pushed over and it stopped

'About the clock...'

And the clock fell over and has stopped at 6.22.'

'But didn't you tell him that the study clock was always kept a quarter of an hour ahead?'

Because when that clock said twenty past six it was really only five minutes past, and at five minutes past I don't suppose Colonel Protheroe had even arrived at the house.'

There's the clock, too,' I said

Lawrence knew about that clock being ahead

About ten o'clock last night, Redding comes in, throws down a pistol, and says to the police, "Here I am

'Why did you change the time of the clock?'

'The clock?' Redding seemed confused.

'In fact I was in my garden from five o'clock onwards yesterday and from there, well, I can see everything that is happening next door.'

'The time, the overturned clock pointing to 6.22...'

And I told him about the clock.

Miss Hartnell says she stayed there until seven o'clock, and Redding went with Stone to the Blue Boar for a drink

'When you did not tell me the truth about your clock.'

And anyway, why do you keep your clock a quarter of an hour ahead?'

Then he saw the note and the clock and he wrote 6.20 at the top of the letter and altered the clock to 6.22

'Did you touch the clock?'

I remember a clock lying there, but I did not touch it.'

I returned some time before five o'clock.'

'Then if a lady - Miss Hartnell perhaps - said that she came here about six o'clock, rang the bell, but got no answer - you would say she was mistaken?'

That was just after two o'clock

Why would she take a suitcase into the woods at twelve o'clock at night? I don't expect it has anything to do with the murder

And because of the clock, it was thought that the time of death was 6.22.

She heard the church clock just after she had shown him into the study

'I am sleeping very badly just now, and at about three o'clock this morning I thought I heard someone moving about the house

'It must have been nearly six o'clock

This was just before six o'clock.'

They left at just after nine o'clock, and at half-past nine exactly, there was a little knock on my study window, and I opened the glass door for Miss Marple to come in.

It was eleven o'clock at night, but when I saw a light in a certain upstairs window, I stopped and rang the doorbell

'Then he altered the time of the clock to the same as on the forged letter

I saw a reddish flash at the edge, the slightest bend in its shape, as the clock struck midnight.

The time then was around six o'clock

By eight o'clock a number of boys and unemployed men were already walking to the common to see the 'dead men from Mars'

I failed to find Lord Hilton at his house, but was told he was expected from London by the six o'clock train

At about three o'clock I heard the sound of a gun, firing regularly, from the direction of Chertsey

We got there without any problems at about nine o'clock, and the horse had an hour's rest while I had supper with my cousins and left my wife in their care.

At about seven o'clock last night the Martians came out of the cylinder and, moving around in metal machines, completely destroyed Woking station and the houses around it, and killed around 600 soldiers

At about five o'clock the growing crowd in the station was greatly excited by the opening of the line between the South-Eastern and South-Western stations, which is usually closed

At about eight o'clock the sound of tiring could be heard clearly ail over the south of London

But three certainly came out at about eight o'clock

By ten o'clock the police were finding it hard to keep control.

Passengers were fighting for standing room in the carriages even at two o'clock in the morning

At about one o'clock in the afternoon, the thin remains of a cloud of Black Smoke was seen coming through London's Blackfriars Bridge

It was about two o'clock when my brother got onto it with the two women

Everything was quiet through the afternoon and we started at about five o'clock along the blackened road to Sunbury.

It was nearly eleven o'clock before we felt brave enough to go out again

'The next day I had to go to the City, but I was so worried about my wife that I returned early to Norbury at about one o'clock

Go to bed no later than II o'clock each night and don't read books about things you don't understand.

Harris said, 'Oh, how boring! In the country everyone goes to bed at eight o'clock

(George goes to sleep at a bank from ten o'clock to four o'clock, Monday to Friday, except on Saturdays

On Saturdays, they wake him up at two o'clock, and put him outside the door.)

Harris said, 'Seven o'clock.'

I said, 'Six o'clock.'

'Do you know that it's nearly nine o'clock?'

I said, 'We must be at Shepperton at five o'clock to meet George.'

We went to bed at ten o'clock

I woke up at six o'clock the next morning, and George did, too

We reached Reading at about II o'clock

We were awake at five o'clock the next morning.

'However, there's a train that leaves Pangbourne after five o'clock

We reached Paddington Station at seven o'clock

'A little late! It is nearly two o'clock.'

At eight o'clock the messenger went to Pesca's house