How to Use cuckoo clock in a Sentence

cuckoo clock

noun
  • Then there’s the cuckoo clock, which stumped us for a bit with the abundance of numbers and pictures.
    — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2020
  • All the cuckoo clocks bought by tourists and carried home and hung on walls all over the world are now counting down the hours.
    — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
  • The one who has stayed down has lived less, aged less, the mechanism of his cuckoo clock has oscillated fewer times.
    — Carlo Rovelli, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
  • This wagon is a German cuckoo clock with a screw loose, and as endearing as a house cat knocking a glass vase off the table.
    — Jesus R. Garcia, Houston Chronicle, 1 Feb. 2026
  • This year’s signature Hallmark ornament, a chiming cuckoo clock, has sold out twice at the store.
    — Joan Verdon, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2017
  • These gadgets have about as much to do with artificial intelligence as does a modern cuckoo clock.
    — Peter Thonemann, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Auction items include chandeliers, a cuckoo clock, and a mural, but not the restaurant's famous beer steins.
    — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • An antique cuckoo clock on the mantel ticked off the seconds, a kind of mechanical memento mori.
    — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 13 June 2025
  • The watch changes 20 minutes later and the soldiers, like windup figures in a cuckoo clock, switch position again.
    — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
  • The store is split in half, with two street entrances lending the feeling of a cuckoo clock with two doors and a line along the floor separating day and night, light and dark.
    — Andrea Whittle, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2019
  • The first products Amazon is pitching via the program are a smart sticky note printer, a smart nutrition scale, and a smart cuckoo clock.
    — Fortune, 18 Feb. 2021
  • The cuckoo clocks in the window at the entrance attracted curious looks and made for plenty of social media moments.
    — Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 14 Apr. 2025
  • Buzz enjoyed repairing cuckoo clocks and building dollhouses.
    — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 1 July 2018
  • Other decorations included a popcorn bucket, a hamburger, a hot dog cart, a cuckoo clock and a rocking horse.
    — Marina Watts, PEOPLE, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Its centerpiece was a grand, defunct table cuckoo clock whose avian automaton was paralyzed just beyond its little door.
    — Joseph O’Neill, The New Yorker, 11 Mar. 2024
  • In the dining room there are thin strings of burgundy crystal beads that circle the room near the ceiling, and in their large middle parlor a holiday bow always hangs from a cuckoo clock.
    — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2017
  • The bird in question was supposed to be a rooster, but when the clockmaker tested his little leather bellows, the rooster sounded rather anemic, and the cuckoo clock was born.
    — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026
  • Proving the point, clock fan Fritz eagerly explores John’s range of timepieces, including grandfather clocks, cuckoo clocks, and more.
    — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Perhaps the notion appealed to nineteenth-century tastes for cuckoo clocks and ideas about mechanistic, orderly nature.
    — Literary Hub, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Walsh also discovered whether Welles actually wrote the famous cuckoo clock speech Lime gives to Martins on the ferris wheel.
    — Gregory James Wakeman, IndieWire, 11 Oct. 2024
  • That includes a large antique cuckoo clock, chandeliers, decorative shields, and a mural depicting a city in Germany.
    — Tom Daykin, jsonline.com, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Then Gilmore flamed out, lost everything, and became a dedicated boozer, making flasks out of everything from cucumbers to cuckoo clocks.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 25 July 2025
  • In the work in question, the company's iconic blue-and-yellow branding is swathed not on a massive furniture warehouse, but a tiny, intricate, classic Swiss cuckoo clock.
    — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 15 July 2019
  • At each location there will be around five dozen vendors who come from all over Europe as well as Illinois, and this is the place to buy real cuckoo clocks form the Black Forest.
    — Larry Olmsted, Forbes, 24 Oct. 2024
  • The two arrive at a level—inside their home’s mechanical cuckoo clock—where Cody gains the ability to turn back time and May gains the ability to duplicate herself.
    — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
  • Heavy as their subject matter can be, a sense of humor is central to the Duel Diagnosis ethos, something perfectly encapsulated by their new cuckoo clock.
    — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
  • Time will fly on a nine-day tour that introduces participants to some of Switzerland's luxury watchmakers as well as the world-famous cuckoo clocks of Germany's Black Forest.
    — Anne Harnagel, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
  • While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
    — Briana Richert, James Mercadante, EW.com, 19 Feb. 2024
  • While some installments tackled the basics like cooking supplies, automobiles, and food, others threw curveballs such as dissecting the inner workings of 3-D commercial signs, false teeth, cuckoo clocks, and more.
    — Ilana Gordon, Entertainment Weekly, 30 Dec. 2025
  • In his office, beneath the green cuckoo clock, Jürgen Bauhus told me of farms not unlike the Grüner Baum, farms that have existed on the same land for 30 generations, a thousand years.
    — Kendra Atleework, Longreads, 12 Mar. 2026

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