How to Use metronome in a Sentence

metronome

noun
  • Her tail would flick—back and forth like a metronome.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • The windshield wipers ticked like a metronome.
    — Literary Hub, 14 Apr. 2026
  • Her grinding against the moss is as rhythmic as the beat of a metronome.
    — Agnieszka Szpila, Harpers Magazine, 24 Mar. 2026
  • Except metronomes do not have nerve endings.
    — Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 6 May 2026
  • The metronome commands each step, each horn movement, each note.
    — Rachel Royster, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 30 Oct. 2025
  • His knee jerked up and down to the clacking of the metronome on the piano lid.
    — Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Pavlov trained dogs to associate the sight of food with the sound of a metronome.
    — Holly Barker, Discover Magazine, 23 Sep. 2021
  • There's a looper, tuner, metronome, and drum machine at the ready.
    — Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 23 Jan. 2026
  • She is troubled by the metronome ticking, a knock at the door, a scream in the woods.
    — Variety, 2 Mar. 2023
  • To suit the mood of the piece, the background sound will be a metronome, rather than music.
    — Myrna Petlicki, chicagotribune.com, 15 Feb. 2022
  • Beethoven used the then-new metronome to set down beat-per-minute timings of his symphonies.
    — Dallas News, 13 May 2022
  • Just place a moving object, like a clock or a metronome, in front of the camera.
    — Courtney Linder, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2020
  • One year later, the hard contact no longer comes with the steadiness of a metronome.
    — Alex Speier, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2019
  • Two men managed near perfect scores with ease, their firing as steady as metronomes.
    — Justin Quarry, Longreads, 26 Jan. 2018
  • First, both men stand at the baseline, going back and forth, playing the plush metronome of the game.
    — Han Ong, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2020
  • Mark Reynolds, hitting home runs at a metronome clip, has made a habit of jogging around the bases.
    — Nick Groke, The Denver Post, 7 May 2017
  • Players have to press buttons in time with the visual metronome at the bottom of the screen.
    — Gieson Cacho, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
  • They were instructed to adjust their stride rates upward to match the metronome.
    — Amby Burfoot, Outside Online, 23 July 2019
  • At Ojai, musicians held the metronomes while standing in the aisles.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2018
  • Click once to record, once for the metronome, and once for rewinding; double-click to split a clip into two.
    — PCMAG, 1 May 2024
  • The participants had to simply keep rhythm with the metronome.
    — Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Foot by foot, the rig’s hammer slammed the pillar into the ground with the rhythmic beat of a metronome.
    — Melissa Gomez, Los Angeles Times, 8 Feb. 2024
  • Nicky Romero slammed the arpeggiator down and pumped up the metronome for a classic big-room house vibe.
    — Kat Bein, Billboard, 14 Aug. 2017
  • In 2013, Ronan was trained to bob her head in time to the pulse of a metronome.
    — Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 1 May 2025
  • The swish swish sound of one’s moving arms while running can act as a metronome with which when your body is comfortable.
    — Joe Jackson, Outside Online, 10 Oct. 2022
  • On a team known for no-look passes and flashy finishes, Citron is a metronome.
    — Julia Poe, Chicago Tribune, 18 Mar. 2025
  • The metronome of my breath, the monotony of lap after turn after lap, is like meditation to me.
    — Jenna Dedić, Redbook, 25 May 2017
  • The noise of the pulses is like the beat of a metronome or a very fast elevator that beeps at every floor.
    — Chloe Malle, Vogue, 2 May 2018
  • In the first, the pacing follows that of a metronome; the pause between each note is the same duration.
    — Rasha Aridi, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Oct. 2021
  • On one side of a steel mesh door, an experimenter listened to a metronome through headphones and drummed along.
    — Quanta Magazine, 22 Mar. 2016

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