How to Use biological clock in a Sentence

biological clock

noun
  • Want to freeze the biological clock from one birthday to the next?
    Alex Hutchinson, Outside Online, 10 Mar. 2023
  • The timetable of how her life unfolds need not adhere to a pesky biological clock.
    Robin Marantz Henig, WIRED, 27 Mar. 2018
  • The idea that blocking blue light helps with sleep stems from research on the sun’s effects on the body’s biological clock.
    Kaitlin Sullivan, NBC News, 17 Aug. 2023
  • Bill Guest was about 30 when his biological clock kicked in.
    Nara Schoenberg, ajc, 17 June 2018
  • The busiest years of a researcher’s life are in her 20s and 30s, which corresponds with the time her biological clock is ticking most loudly.
    Melinda Wenner Moyer, Scientific American, 1 June 2012
  • That doesn’t sit well with some fans and critics, who see the Warriors as wasting a year of Curry’s prime, as his biological clock ticks away.
    Scott Ostler, San Francisco Chronicle, 7 Mar. 2021
  • People tend to think of late risers as lazy or undisciplined, but our biological clocks are not set on all the same timers.
    Amy Sowder, Bon Appetit, 7 Dec. 2017
  • The unfairness of online dating for women stressed about the tick of the biological clock.
    Washington Post, 5 Aug. 2021
  • When the biological clock turns kids into night owls and day sleepers.
    Eva Dwight, USA TODAY, 25 June 2018
  • The cause is unknown, but cluster headaches may occur if something with the body’s biological clock is off, per the Mayo Clinic.
    Amy Marturana, SELF, 29 Dec. 2018
  • Say congrats to the three US scientists who a Nobel Prize for their work on our biological clocks.
    Doug Criss, CNN, 3 Oct. 2017
  • In species in which biological clocks have been well studied — such as Drosophila and mice — that central timekeeper is housed in the brain.
    Virat Markandeya, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Mar. 2023
  • My biological clock does present a unique challenge, though: time.
    Nicole Ellis, Washington Post, 30 Jan. 2018
  • In the days after daylight saving time starts, our biological clocks are a little bit off.
    Brian Resnick, Vox, 2 Nov. 2018
  • Jake Gyllenhaal, 36, is apparently hearing the tick-tick-tick of his biological clock on the press tour for his new movie Stronger.
    Allie Jones, The Cut, 20 Sep. 2017
  • Rose says in the trailer, his biological clock ticking as his dream of being married with two kids by 40 gets slimmer and slimmer.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE.com, 30 Oct. 2017
  • This pushes the biological clock forward an hour as well.
    Paul Leblanc, CNN, 9 Apr. 2022
  • That means players will have to figure out how to sync their biological clocks for travel, training, and matches.
    Eric Niiler, WIRED, 14 June 2018
  • This may have to do with your body's circadian rhythms, also know as your biological clock.
    Samantha Lauriello, Health.com, 9 July 2019
  • The presence of a biological clock was already surmised in the 18th century.
    Gretchen Vogel, Science | AAAS, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Nikole Beckwith, the writer/director of this movie, talks a lot about how men have a biological clock too, but nobody really talks about it.
    Angela Dawson, Forbes, 9 May 2021
  • At the tender age of 18, Kylie Jenner can already hear her biological clock ticking.
    Evan Real, Marie Claire, 30 Jan. 2016
  • Consistency is key: a regular bed and wake-up time can help set your biological clock to become sleepy at the same time every day.
    Clare Mulroy, USA TODAY, 1 Feb. 2023
  • Your biological clock may be highly adaptable, but when it’s thrown off-balance, nothing else feels quite right.
    Ben Thomas, Discover Magazine, 10 July 2014
  • There’s that awful biological clock that adds this pressure and is sort of doubled down by society.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 May 2023
  • In human bodies, biological clocks keep track of seconds, minutes, days, months and years.
    Karen Wright, Scientific American, 21 Jan. 2012
  • The later start would better align with their biological clocks and allow students to get more sleep, Beresford said, both of which research has shown is critical to teenagers.
    Emma Kate Fittes, Indianapolis Star, 14 June 2019
  • In the course of evolution, humans have developed a biological clock set to this alternating rhythm of light and dark.
    Antonio Damasio, Scientific American, 25 Jan. 2012
  • Some scientists suggest that your biological clock gets out of sorts.
    Amy Huschka, Detroit Free Press, 10 Mar. 2024
  • The girlies can have a moment of deep self-interrogation about complicated female friendships, commercial success, and our biological clocks, all while getting down.
    Emma Specter, Vogue, 21 June 2024

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