Sample sentences for METRONOME

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Definition

a device that helps musicians maintain tempo by providing subtle visual or auditory signals

I gradually increased the tempo of the metronome as I better learned the passage.

The laughing and yelping made a raucous counterpoint to the metronomic tock-tock-tock of the bunny's never-ending hop.
Jerry Spinelli -- Stargirl
His heart beat unevenly in his chest, like a broken metronome, but his voice was steady.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Glass
No swinging amulet, no metronome.
Gayle Forman -- Where She Went
"But not just yet," he said, holding up a finger and laughing, a slow metronomic sound, heh-heh-heh ....
Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
I'm too busy moving from one city and one job to another, loyal to the rhythms of a column-writing schedule that serves as my metronome.
Steve Lopez -- The Soloist
The metronomic beat of the clock speeds up, and I rise toward the surface.
Rick Yancey -- The Infinite Sea
In coffins for the not dead and not alive, in planked boxes, the metronomes waited to be set in motion.
Ray Bradbury -- The Martian Chronicles
He ran steadily, mechanically, his barrel legs pumping like a metronome.
William Goldman -- The Princess Bride
Miss Eckhart worshiped her metronome.
Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
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.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
The toy man had a broken nose slanted to the left: an offbeat metronome caught forever at the start of an upward stroke.
Frank Herbert -- Dune
It was our metronome, our pulse.
Susanna Kaysen -- Girl Interrupted
She had a nickel alarm clock and a battered metronome.
Betty Smith -- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
The ventilator that's doing my breathing has a soothing rhythm like a metronome, in, out, in, out.
Gayle Forman -- If I Stay
He nodded, the tears not like tears so much as a quiet metronome—steady, endless.
John Green -- The Fault in Our Stars
The Lacks children sat up in the colored section next to the projector, which clicked like a metronome through the whole movie.
Rebecca Skloot -- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
A really huge metronome that could also double as a weapon?
Cassandra Clare -- City of Heavenly Fire
Colin's mother shook her head rhythmically, like a disapproving metronome.
John Green -- An Abundance of Katherines
No matter how mechanical the fan is in its movement the textures of air have no sense of the metronome.
Michael Ondaatje -- Running in the Family

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