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Example sentences for "clock struck"

  • In the meantime seven o'clock struck at a neighboring convent.

  • Ten o'clock struck; and from that moment the invited guests did not cease to arrive.

  • Nine o'clock struck; and the minute-hand stole on to twenty minutes past the hour, before any more footsteps were heard on the stairs.

  • Seven o'clock struck; and the signs of domestic life began to show themselves in more rapid succession.

  • Eleven o'clock struck; then a quarter past eleven: then half-past.

  • In the midst of all this, eight o'clock struck.

  • As soon as eight o'clock struck, the supper would be announced, for the surintendant never kept any one waiting.

  • One o'clock struck as they drove up to the carpenter's door.

  • When ten o'clock struck he seized his cane, a formidable oak stick, which he was accustomed to carry in his nocturnal walks when visiting the sick.

  • Eight o'clock struck, the door opened, and Julie came in again.

  • One o'clock struck; and he had not found a single moment tedious.

  • Six o'clock struck, and the candle had been burning for some time upon the mantelpiece, ere Monroe began to wonder what could keep his daughter so long away.

  • Eleven o'clock struck by St. Luke's church; and Mr. Monroe returned to his wretched abode.

  • Hour after hour glided by; and at length the palace-clock struck nine.

  • When a clock struck half-past seven, he could bear the suspense no longer: he put on his hat and coat, and went out.

  • A clock struck three; and seized by an intolerable impatience at her own discomfort, she slipped a motor coat over her night-gown, put on slippers, and stole out into the passage.

  • Five o'clock struck before he had finished, and, almost dropping from fatigue, sat down at his little piano in bright daylight.

  • A clock struck seven, and round the shady lime-tree a chafer or some heavy insect commenced its booming rushes.

  • Eleven o'clock struck; the casino disgorged a stream of people; the Place seemed fuller of life than ever; then slowly it grew empty and quite dark.

  • And when five o'clock struck he once more made sure that a certain total was correct, then rose and went out, leaving the ledger open, as if he meant to return to check the next addition.

  • Time went by; five and then six o'clock struck.

  • Three o'clock struck, and I took them back to the convent, well enough pleased with the progress I had made, though I had only increased my passion.

  • At last ten o'clock struck, and I heard the pastor's voice as he came downstairs talking; he warned the girls not to play any tricks together, and to go to sleep quietly.

  • When four o'clock struck, Charles whispered a few words to his lovely wife, she bowed to her god-mother, and everybody rose from the table.

  • As nine o'clock struck I left her, perishing with cold, but burning with desire; my only thought being where to find a room in which I might possess myself of the treasure the next day.

  • The comte de Caylus, Norbert, and two or three moustachioed young people made fun of him to their heart's content without him suspecting it, and finally packed him off as one o'clock struck.

  • As six o'clock struck he got up gravely and talked about a chapter in Ligorio's New Theology which he had to learn by heart to recite on the following day to M.

  • He was going to write a countermanding letter to Fouque when eleven o'clock struck.

  • As one o'clock struck, he escaped softly from his room, assured himself that the master of the house was soundly asleep, and appeared in Madame de Renal's room.

  • The interview between Lady Hatfield and the Earl of Ellingham was as long as it was painful: and ten o'clock struck by the thousand churches of London, as the nobleman quitted the mansion.

  • Then one o'clock struck, and after that I lay for a seeming eternity, before two strokes from the clock outside indicated the half hour.

  • Twelve o'clock struck, then the half hour, and I gathered from the stillness below that the good Moscow citizens had retired to their respective homes.

  • At that moment twelve o'clock struck from a neighbouring church, and I looked at my watch, and found it was indeed midnight.

  • When twelve o'clock struck, she could no longer resist; she started off and did not notice how long the walk was, her brain was so full of her desire to go and the dread of what awaited her.

  • At last eleven o'clock struck, and Helene was still watching there, when she imagined she heard a gentle tapping at the outer door.

  • Ten o'clock struck; the lovely February morning had all the sweetness and perfume of spring.

  • Two o'clock struck, and the stillness was broken.

  • However, ten o'clock struck at last, and the Abbe and his brother took up their hats.

  • One o'clock struck; then two, before sleep began to visit the drowsy eyelids of the roused slumberers again.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "clock struck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another town; black earth; but little; clock arrived; clock dinner; clock mass; clock next; clock noon; clock struck; clock this; clock tomorrow; clock train; clock when; clockwise direction; coined money; colour drawing; five cases; her last; pinnate leaves; plain water; sayde vnto; several inches; thou mayest; total eclipse; west wing; wide distribution