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 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

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