How to Use keep time in a Sentence

keep time

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• Pendulums have been used in clocks, to keep time, for centuries.
  — Rachelle Doorley, Parents, 16 Aug. 2023
• These work by using electron vibrations around atoms to keep time.
  — Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 12 Apr. 2026
• But the robot didn't have ears to hear a timer ding, and its own processor could keep time anyway.
  — David Berreby, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2024
• Does the brain keep time with one set of neurons but spend it (and reward us for doing so) with another?
  — Alan Burdick, Discover Magazine, 19 Aug. 2014
• After Noe died, Izzy asked her mom to find an hourglass that could be used to keep time in board games.
  — Eliza Griswold, The New Yorker, 13 July 2022
• The front and rear of the car are designed to be replaced in seconds, to keep time in the pit lane to a minimum.
  — Jack Fitzgerald, Car and Driver, 30 July 2022
• Atomic clocks keep time using the steady oscillations of atoms.
  — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2025
• Circadian clocks keep time everywhere from your liver and lungs to your nose and toes.
  — TIME, 9 Mar. 2024
• Eventually, Williams arrives to catch up and keep time with a shaker.
  — Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2022
• The calf playfully slapped the water’s surface with its fluke, and its mother joined in, helping keep time.
  — Alex Pulaski, oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
• For me, that means that the ability to keep time to music came along for the ride with another mechanism.
  — Eliza Strickland, Discover Magazine, 13 Apr. 2011
• Because Pettiford didn't just keep time, his playing is timeless.
  — Star Tribune, 5 Mar. 2021
• Mellencamp later admitted that the clapping in the middle of the guitar part was done just to keep time.
  — Troy L. Smith, cleveland, 13 May 2021
• In an amapiano track, the shakers usually keep time while the log drum darts in and out of the mix, as if the beat itself is playing a solo.
  — Kelefa Sanneh, The New Yorker, 14 July 2023
• Water clocks also use the laws of nature to keep time through the steady, predictable water flow and observe the changing levels.
  — Markus Lutz, Forbes, 20 Feb. 2024
• The frequency of that vibration, or how many oscillations occur in a second, is how clocks keep time, or tick.
  — Katrina Miller, Wired, 19 Oct. 2021
• Residents get together for pool parties, happy hours and swim meets, where the children compete and the parents keep time.
  — Washington Post, 27 Apr. 2022
• Atomic clocks keep time by counting the vibrations of certain atoms, which are extremely regular.
  — Michael Irving, New Atlas, 5 Sep. 2024
• Do not do strenuous physical activity while outdoors and keep time outside short.
  — Michael Loria, USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2025
• Diaz also told LaLima that the Fitbit itself does not keep time.
  — Taylor Hartz, Hartford Courant, 2 May 2022
• But to keep time marching on, a long-term slowdown of Earth’s spin decades ago led to the introduction of the leap second in 1972.
  — Tim Newcomb, Popular Mechanics, 1 Aug. 2022
• Our ability to keep time is what keeps the band together, ensures dance moves are in sync with music, and even allows runners to develop an optimal gait based on steps per minute.
  — Popular Science, 16 Oct. 2019
• Mopic/Shutterstock Entanglement could also improve the world’s best clocks, which keep time via the vibrations of atoms.
  — Devin Powell, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
• So, nuclear transitions could theoretically offer a much more exact way to keep time compared to the electron.
  — Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Sep. 2024
• While Sherman-Palladino's writing moves at a breakneck pace, Midge and Susie keep time as the metronome at the series' center.
  — Maureen Lee Lenker, EW.com, 11 Apr. 2023
• The drum programming is mostly unchanging, just two kicks and a splat to keep time; the pianist is only slightly less reticent, spraying notes in clusters with ample space in between each.
  — Elias Leight, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2021
• Whereas grandfather clocks keep time by tracking swinging pendulums, atomic clocks monitor the quantum vibrations of atoms.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 25 June 2023
• Culturally, humankind has the moon to thank for inspiring the birth of religions, helping civilizations keep time and tipping the outcomes of brutal wars.
  — Joe Spring, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Dec. 2024
• Proteins can also process signals and information, like circadian clock proteins which keep time in our cells, but those are a few main categories of functions that proteins carry out in the cell.
  — Nathan Ahlgren, The Conversation, 13 Jan. 2021
• The key technology here is not so much the ability to keep time but the ability to transfer this information to another location with high precision.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 22 July 2021