8 sentences with 'clock'

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• « We observed the round clock hanging on the wall of the dining room. »

• « The sound of the clock woke the girl. The alarm had gone off too, but she didn't bother to get out of bed. »

• « It's 7 a.m., and the alarm clock radio has just jolted you out of a dream. »

• « Suddenly, his home and family seemed to him "like a clock without a spring." »

• « Another famous group, the Luddites, destroyed factory equipment in a vain attempt to turn back the clock of industrialisation and return to the manual labour of artisans. »

• « The alarm clock display then started flashing 12 o'clock, indicating that it needed to be reset. After quenching his thirst, he checked the time on the microwave oven: 1:06 a.m. He went back to his room, set the time on the clock and went to sleep. »

• « In turn, despite the practical impossibility of doing so in most cases, there were real attempts by many conservative regimes after Napoleon's defeat to turn back the clock completely, to try to sweep the reforms of the revolutionary era under the collective carpet. »

• « Once back in power, however, the restored Spanish king Ferdinand VII refused to recognise the constitution, and also refused to convene the Cortes. With the approval of the other conservative monarchies of Europe, Ferdinand essentially moved to turn back the clock in Spain to the pre-revolutionary period. »

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