How to Use time clock in a Sentence

time clock

noun
  • Use of the time clock, use of the cadence — all of those things.
    — Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 14 Aug. 2022
  • But there's no agreement on which time clocks ought to follow.
    — Tom Davies, Indianapolis Star, 1 Nov. 2019
  • But there’s no agreement on which time clocks ought to follow.
    — Washington Post, 1 Nov. 2019
  • The scoreboards went out, the time clocks were stopped and play was halted on all four sheets.
    — Zack Pierce, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2026
  • Hansen said that the restaurant went to biometric time clocks.
    — Richard Ruelas, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
  • At the entrance to each, visitors are exhorted to check in via a time clock.
    — Barbara Schreiber, charlotteobserver, 3 Nov. 2017
  • His sixth championship reminded us why this guy may have just beaten back the time clock.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 31 Dec. 2019
  • Easterling stood near the time clock at his rural Ohio job and waited.
    — cincinnati.com, 17 Mar. 2020
  • Kissen encouraged people to try and find folks who have similar time clocks.
    — Lily Hautau, CNN Money, 26 Jan. 2026
  • The company staggered work shifts to reduce foot traffic around time clocks.
    — Dallas News, 20 May 2020
  • In one corner there's now a time clock and a rack of time cards - not for the staff, but rather for customers to clock in for their shifts of down time.
    — Ian McNulty, NOLA.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • As mentioned in an earlier column, nature’s time clock seems to be a little ahead this spring.
    — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 Mar. 2026
  • So, if grad school and work have you at capacity, don’t worry about anyone else’s time clock for love or anything else.
    — Eric Thomas, Sun Sentinel, 17 Aug. 2024
  • The fishes’ lives are dictated by Mother Nature and not a time clock as ours are.
    — Jordan Rodriguez, idahostatesman, 6 Mar. 2018
  • Keoghan brings out a hokey elimination totem — a giant time clock where the losing contestants must punch out each week.
    — Washington Post, 7 July 2020
  • But anyone who needed to catch a flight, or find a bathroom, or meet with their child’s teacher, or punch a time clock was in very sad shape indeed.
    — Hayley Kaufman, BostonGlobe.com, 11 June 2019
  • Still, everyone will be watching closely the first time clock management comes into play.
    — Scott Patsko, cleveland.com, 5 Sep. 2019
  • On the other hand, the Giants will benefit because these prospects won’t be starting their big-league service-time clocks any time soon.
    — John Shea, SFChronicle.com, 27 Mar. 2020
  • Hennig said this was a joke about being diligent in enforcing Money Metals’ time clock rules.
    — Elena Gastaldo, Idaho Statesman, 11 July 2024
  • These requirements haven’t changed just because employees are working from home—and very, very far from the office time clock with the camera overhead.
    — Jack Garson, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Unlike sports, there is no time clock, so there can be no winning or losing — there is merely surviving and innovating to endure.
    — Andrew Ross Sorkin, New York Times, 29 Jan. 2018
  • If Mize and Manning were to arrive this year, others next, their service time clocks will begin ticking down to free agency.
    — Anthony Fenech, Detroit Free Press, 10 May 2020
  • That would be one way to justify not starting his service time clock before at least the Super 2 cutoff in June.
    — Steve Gardner, USA TODAY, 18 May 2018
  • Mamdani brushed aside the appointment, noting that Adams’s administration is on a time clock.
    — Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 27 Dec. 2025
  • Tatis could make the jump in the second half of the season, although the Padres might wait until 2019 to start his service time clock.
    — USA TODAY, 8 Feb. 2018
  • Generally speaking, the twice-a-year daylight saving time clock changes are unpopular.
    — Clara Harter, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2026
  • On March 8, an investigator inspected the premises of the market and took a photo of the time clock and timecards.
    — Palak Jayswal, The Salt Lake Tribune, 29 Mar. 2022
  • The San Diego County registrar of voters will now work to verify the signatures on a 30-day time clock.
    — Jeanette Steele, sandiegouniontribune.com, 16 Jan. 2018
  • When there is no time clock marking the start and end of the workday, no clear frontier between home and office, each hour becomes subject to negotiation, each task a battleground of the will.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • The plaintiffs also pointed to earlier cases in which courts held that mandatory screenings and time spent walking from time clocks to workstations were both compensable.
    — Glenn Taylor, Sourcing Journal, 26 Dec. 2025

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