metronomein a sentence
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I gradually increased the tempo of the metronome as I better learned the passage.
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He nodded, the tears not like tears so much as a quiet metronome—steady, endless.† (source)
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TIE METRONOME OF THE KENNEL TICKED AWAY, SUNRISE AND sunset.† (source)
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From down the hall, like a metronome for the visions, Rosa snored, and Liesel lay awake surrounded, but also remembering a quote from her most recent book.† (source)
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In his ears is the ticking of the knitting needles, and under that the clacking of the wheels along the iron rails, like the workings of some relentless metronome.† (source)
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"The metronome's gone," she called out.† (source)
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In the back of my mind, I could still hear the hacking of the tree, a metronome fading away like a ticking clock vanishing in time.† (source)
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The laughing and yelping made a raucous counterpoint to the metronomic tock-tock-tock of the bunny's never-ending hop.† (source)
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So they had gone at their subjects with metronomes, serpents, Brechtian vignettes at midnight, surgical removal of certain glands, magic-lantern hallucinations, new drugs, threats recited over hidden loudspeakers, hypnotism, clocks that ran backward, and faces.† (source)
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My heart had kept pace to the metronomelike rhythm of a monitor's steady beep.† (source)
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Moreover: I was not used to European hotels where you had to ring to get in after a certain hour, and when at last I splashed up sneezing and bone chilled to find the glass door locked, I stood for some indefinite time rattling the handle like a zombie, back and forth, back and forth, with a rhythmic, locked-in, metronome dumbness, too stupefied with cold to understand why I couldn't get in.† (source)
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The drumming wing-whir of the slowly moving overhead fan is metronomic, enhancing to the concentration—and from the fourth and fifth rows of pews, you can feel the air moving regularly against your face.† (source)
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In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion.† (source)
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He swung his right arm upward to shake Harry's hand, but at the last moment seemed unable to face it, and merely closed his fist and began swinging it backward and forward like a metronome.† (source)
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The metronomic beat of the clock speeds up, and I rise toward the surface.† (source)
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There was a boy who used no canvas, but did something with bird cages and metronomes, and another who discovered a new technique of painting: he blackened a sheet of paper and then painted with a rubber eraser.† (source)
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