How to Use hour hand in a Sentence

hour hand

noun
  • At first glance, this looks like a simple clock with a large face and minute and hour hands.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 5 Sep. 2025
  • At first glance, this looks like a simple clock with a large face and minute and hour hands.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 28 Nov. 2025
  • At first glance, this looks like a simple clock with a large face and minute and hour hands.
    — Alicia Geigel, Southern Living, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back from 3 o’clock to noon.
    — Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2018
  • Lay the watch on a flat surface with the hour hand pointing toward the sun.
    — Jerome B. Robinson, Field & Stream, 29 June 2023
  • The cathedral style hour hand is what makes all the difference.
    — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
  • The minute and hour hands and the hands in the subdials are gold-plated.
    — Anthony Demarco, Forbes.com, 1 Apr. 2025
  • The tip of the hour hand travels at a much slower place, at about 80 feet a day.
    — Leo Bertucci, The Courier-Journal, 4 July 2025
  • Right now fiddling with the hour hand twice a year defies logic and biology.
    — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Two buttons on the left flank of the case move the local hour hand forward or backward in one-hour increments.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 29 June 2024
  • If an image is reversed, an hour hand that appears to be to the left of six o’clock is actually to the right.
    — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
  • Thread the two together, and glue the minute hand to the dowel and the hour hand to the PVC.
    — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022
  • With basins in the appropriate spots, the coal cycle runs almost like clockwork, an hour hand spinning round and round.
    — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
  • The two buttons on the left side of the case allow the local-time hour hand to be moved backward and forward in one-hour increments.
    — Sophie Furley, Robb Report, 21 Dec. 2024
  • As the particle circles the magnet, its hour hand goes around and around at a rate predicted by theory.
    — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
  • Crafted in mother-of-pearl marquetry, the disc is ingeniously indexed to the hour hand and subtly shifts over time.
    — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 22 July 2025
  • Eternal Time, set on a pedestal, was a version of Clock Piece that had a ticking second hand but no minute or hour hands.
    — David Sheff, ARTnews.com, 24 Mar. 2025
  • The local hour hand is independently adjustable for quick setting.
    — Carol Besler, Robb Report, 23 Aug. 2023
  • Here, the Earth is once again the center of the universe with Mars as the hour hand, the moon as the minute hand and a satellite as the seconds hand.
    — Michael Solomon, Forbes.com, 13 Apr. 2025
  • For analog timepieces, be prepared to crank the hour hand ahead by 60 minutes before going to bed Saturday night.
    — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
  • This is achieved using an additional fourth-hour hand (on top of the hour, minute, and second hands) in conjunction with a bezel labeled with a 24-hour scale.
    — Brynn Wallner, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Dec. 2022
  • The 24 hour hand is not original, and the case has been refinished, but the dial is the real star of the show here, and the price reflects its shortcomings.
    — Blake Buettner, Robb Report, 12 July 2024
  • Using an old-school clock with minute and hour hands can help people with time blindness keep track of how long things take as well as see the present moment in relationship to the past and future, Tuckman said.
    — Charles Trepany, USA Today, 30 June 2025
  • By modifying the watch’s automatic movement, Rolex could give it an independently adjustable local hour hand.
    — Oren Hartov, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Colored a prominent tangerine, the additional hour hand on the Explorer II pops against the black or white face and points to a 24-hour bezel.
    — Adam Erace, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2026

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