How to Use grandfather clock in a Sentence

grandfather clock

noun

• Think about the one on the stove, the one in the car, the giant grandfather clock.
  — Madeleine Marr, miamiherald, 1 Nov. 2017
• When the weights in a grandfather clock reach the bottom of their chains, the clock stops.
  — Sun Sentinel Editorial Board, Sun Sentinel, 30 Nov. 2024
• The skeleton that pops out from behind the grandfather clock was the best gag of the night.
  — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
• Hager likes to style grandfather clocks in foyers and hallways.
  — Sarah Lyon, Southern Living, 25 Nov. 2024
• One of Reid’s creations was a grandfather clock.
  — Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star, 12 Aug. 2025
• While waiting for the maître d’, a customer could step on an antique scale the size of a grandfather clock.
  — Lauren Collins, The New Yorker, 1 Apr. 2024
• Attach a few grandfather clocks to a wall and over the course of the day, their pendulums will start to swing in sync.
  — Chris Lee, Ars Technica, 7 Aug. 2018
• Just visit the store's 240-year-old grandfather clock.
  — Carmela Karcher, CBS News, 6 Mar. 2026
• All announced by the ticking of the grandfather clock in the living room, which acts as a steady beat backing the song of the storm.
  — Seija Rankin, EW.com, 18 Nov. 2021
• The nickname of Dune’s younger brother, David, came from a windup grandfather clock in the house.
  — John Kelly, Washington Post, 4 Dec. 2022
• Among the pieces handed down over five generations is the grandfather clock in the living room.
  — Victoria Johnson, ELLE Decor, 1 June 2022
• Old analog clocks, like grandfather clocks, will time the swings between a pendulum moving back and forth.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 21 June 2019
• That solid mahogany grandfather clock came through unscathed.
  — Los Angeles Times, 12 Oct. 2019
• Behind them was a painting that Carter had made of the same room, with its grandfather clock, rocking chairs, and roll-top desk.
  — Lawrence Wright, The New Yorker, 29 Dec. 2024
• Several of those districts swung like the pendulum in a grandfather clock.
  — The Economist, 10 Mar. 2018
• Keselowski briefly nudged Logano out of the groove on the sixth lap and took off for the rout that earned him his second Martinsville grandfather clock.
  — Jenna Fryer, The Seattle Times, 24 Mar. 2019
• That diamond necklace, grandfather clock, antique rug and vintage car are not just going to march themselves into the right hands.
  — Marni Jameson, orlandosentinel.com, 2 July 2021
• The Sand Pirates pirate ship silently swung like the pendulum on a grandfather clock.
  — Brady MacDonald, Oc Register, 5 Dec. 2025
• The doorman still ushers guests into the grand, three-story lobby, where the famous grandfather clock has been chiming since the hotel opened.
  — Katie Lockhart, Travel + Leisure, 26 Nov. 2023
• It’s passed on, like a grandfather clock, from generation to generation.
  — Sean Keeler, Denver Post, 7 Apr. 2026
• Apart from its colorful grandfather clock that tutors built out of K’nex toys, the center is a drab room full of computers and faux wood tables.
  — Marcella Bombardieri, The Atlantic, 30 May 2018
• His victims know they are being hunted when the grandfather clock and its ominous chime appear in hallucinations.
  — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 June 2022
• Similar to how a grandfather clock keeps time by a swinging pendulum, an atomic clock monitors the vibrations of an atom.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 15 Oct. 2023
• Humans have long kept time to regular phenomena, from the waxing and waning of the moon to the lulling swings of the pendulum in a grandfather clock.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
• If a bunch of grandfather clocks are put in room together, for example, the biggest amplitude signal will entrain the others.
  — Ginny Whitelaw, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• Placed over the light source, the Fresnel lens often rested on a clockwork mechanism hung with weights, like those of a gigantic grandfather clock.
  — Dorothy Wickenden, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2023
• Mercury found its way into thermometers, mirrors, telescopes, paint, and the pendulums of grandfather clocks.
  — Sallie Tisdale, Harper's Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024
• In the living room, a table and two recliners were pushed together next to a grandfather clock Robert had been fixing earlier in the evening.
  — The Courier-Journal, 7 Dec. 2022
• In a city underpass, the collective has also installed a grandfather clock that will collect oral histories from passersby.
  — Cassidy George, Vogue, 22 June 2022
• The miniature grandfather clock never ticked in Greg Allison’s childhood.
  — Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 8 Aug. 2024