How to Use hour hand in a Sentence

hour hand

noun

• If an image is reversed, an hour hand that appears to be to the left of six o’clock is actually to the right.
  — Peter Hessler, The New Yorker, 26 June 2023
• Thread the two together, and glue the minute hand to the dowel and the hour hand to the PVC.
  — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 4 Oct. 2022
• Thread the two together, and glue the minute hand to the dowel and the hour hand to the PVC.
  — Lara Sorokanich, Popular Mechanics, 11 Oct. 2018
• Imagine winding the hour hand of a clock back from 3 o’clock to noon.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2018
• The cathedral style hour hand is what makes all the difference.
  — Christian Gollayan, Men's Health, 7 Mar. 2023
• With basins in the appropriate spots, the coal cycle runs almost like clockwork, an hour hand spinning round and round.
  — Cody Cottier, Discover Magazine, 24 Mar. 2021
• Right now fiddling with the hour hand twice a year defies logic and biology.
  — Ana Veciana-Suarez, miamiherald, 12 Mar. 2018
• As the particle circles the magnet, its hour hand goes around and around at a rate predicted by theory.
  — Daniel Garisto, Scientific American, 7 Apr. 2021
• This is achieved using an additional fourth-hour hand (on top of the hour, minute, and second hands) in conjunction with a bezel labeled with a 24-hour scale.
  — Brynn Wallner, Harper's BAZAAR, 21 Dec. 2022
• For analog timepieces, be prepared to crank the hour hand ahead by 60 minutes before going to bed Saturday night.
  — Ginger Adams Otis, WSJ, 11 Mar. 2022
• This dual time zone watch uses Patek Philippe’s signature skeletonized hand to display the hours of a second time zone, while the solid hour hand shows local time.
  — Kristen Shirley, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• When at home, the skeletonized hand disappears beneath the solid hour hand, an elegant solution.
  — Kristen Shirley, Forbes, 27 May 2021
• Mathematicians have long known how to describe this rotation as a simple multiplication: A number representing the initial position of the hour hand on the plane is multiplied by another constant number.
  — Quanta Magazine, 6 Sep. 2018

Last Updated: 12 Dec 2024