How to Use cuckoo clock in a Sentence

cuckoo clock

noun

• Then there’s the cuckoo clock, which stumped us for a bit with the abundance of numbers and pictures.
  — Rachel Yang, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2020
• The store is split in half, with two street entrances lending the feeling of a cuckoo clock with two doors and a line along the floor separating day and night, light and dark.
  — Andrea Whittle, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Dec. 2019
• The watch changes 20 minutes later and the soldiers, like windup figures in a cuckoo clock, switch position again.
  — WSJ, 17 Sep. 2022
• The one who has stayed down has lived less, aged less, the mechanism of his cuckoo clock has oscillated fewer times.
  — Carlo Rovelli, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2018
• The first products Amazon is pitching via the program are a smart sticky note printer, a smart nutrition scale, and a smart cuckoo clock.
  — Fortune, 18 Feb. 2021
• This year’s signature Hallmark ornament, a chiming cuckoo clock, has sold out twice at the store.
  — Joan Verdon, The Seattle Times, 17 Dec. 2017
• Why not turn yourself into a giant, walking cuckoo clock?
  — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022
• Why not turn yourself into a giant, walking cuckoo clock.
  — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2018
• In the dining room there are thin strings of burgundy crystal beads that circle the room near the ceiling, and in their large middle parlor a holiday bow always hangs from a cuckoo clock.
  — Joanne Kempinger Demski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 14 Dec. 2017
• The women live in cottages, each more preposterously shaped than its neighbor: a lighthouse, a circus tent, a toadstool, a cuckoo clock.
  — Merve Emre, The New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2020
• These gadgets have about as much to do with artificial intelligence as does a modern cuckoo clock.
  — Peter Thonemann, WSJ, 7 Dec. 2018
• Proving the point, clock fan Fritz eagerly explores John’s range of timepieces, including grandfather clocks, cuckoo clocks, and more.
  — oregonlive, 7 Sep. 2019
• The two arrive at a level—inside their home’s mechanical cuckoo clock—where Cody gains the ability to turn back time and May gains the ability to duplicate herself.
  — Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 1 Apr. 2021
• In the work in question, the company's iconic blue-and-yellow branding is swathed not on a massive furniture warehouse, but a tiny, intricate, classic Swiss cuckoo clock.
  — Hadley Keller, House Beautiful, 15 July 2019
• Despite his popularity, Daniel is something of a misfit, as tigers go: a docile, people-loving creature who lives inside a cuckoo clock.
  — Robert Ito, New York Times, 5 June 2018
• Time will fly on a nine-day tour that introduces participants to some of Switzerland's luxury watchmakers as well as the world-famous cuckoo clocks of Germany's Black Forest.
  — Anne Harnagel, latimes.com, 2 Apr. 2018
• Heavy as their subject matter can be, a sense of humor is central to the Duel Diagnosis ethos, something perfectly encapsulated by their new cuckoo clock.
  — Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 24 June 2021
• Buzz enjoyed repairing cuckoo clocks and building dollhouses.
  — Hartford Courant, courant.com, 1 July 2018
• After all, not everyone gets to garden on 60 acres with seven different types of greenhouses, each with its own specific environmental conditions and staff to keep it all running like Geppetto's cuckoo clock collection.
  — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 21 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 5 Nov 2024