How to Use stopwatch in a Sentence

stopwatch

noun

• The stopwatch feature can do elapsed time as well as split time.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
• Our brains can keep track of short bursts of time like a mental stopwatch.
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2019
• Come to think of it, that ticking sound may not be a stopwatch or a bomb.
  — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2025
• Forget the stopwatch and the stress.
  — Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Nov. 2025
• It can be charged in or out of the frame from dead in about 5 hours by my stopwatch.
  — Bill Roberson, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2021
• Chase has a stopwatch and is writing times down on a piece of paper.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2021
• In many places, no one is standing by with a stopwatch to enforce the rule.
  — Jessica Safavimehr, Southern Living, 26 June 2026
• The watch also includes a timer, a stopwatch, and an alarm.
  — John Monaco, InStyle, 7 Feb. 2026
• The question is whether the rest of Pride’s skills catch up to the stopwatch.
  — Eddie Brown, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 Apr. 2026
• This watch can sound up to five daily alarms and has a stopwatch and a countdown timer.
  — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2019
• But even with those two, that growth took the turn of a calendar, not a stopwatch.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 19 Nov. 2020
• My kids have always reached for my phone to use as a stopwatch for races, and for selfies.
  — Michelle McNally, USA TODAY, 15 May 2018
• Sammy pulls out her stopwatch and tells me to breathe normally for one minute.
  — Women's Health, 31 July 2023
• Neither the stopwatch nor Alonso’s body are telling him his choice could be close.
  — Luke Smith, New York Times, 31 May 2025
• Yes, your phone can tell you the tide or become a stopwatch with much less effort, but that's not the point.
  — Popular Mechanics, 19 Feb. 2015
• Wilson, in the control room, leaned forward, a stopwatch in his hand.
  — Mick Stevens, The New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2021
• The other small circles are for a stopwatch (on the left) and seconds (on the right).
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
• Some also have timers and stopwatches.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
• The fourth man used a stopwatch to determine how long the Grunter’s echo took to make it to them.
  — Vanessa Armstrong, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Dec. 2023
• Like my old model, the new one has a stopwatch that measures hundredths of a second.
  — Ross Andersen, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2024
• But there’s much less inexact about a stopwatch, when placed against the context of a prospect’s high school film.
  — Eric Hansen, Indianapolis Star, 20 Dec. 2019
• Divide the total distance walked by the amount of time (in seconds) on your stopwatch.
  — Leah Groth, Health, 9 Feb. 2024
• Forty points of downforce is good, but four tenths on the stopwatch is what interests me and the drivers.
  — Dan Perry, Newsweek, 3 Jan. 2025
• And the original plan for the stopwatch drill, subsumed by Covid?
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• The pair sprinted sideline to sideline across the field, while Mayo kept tabs with a stopwatch.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• First, in Bargh’s study, a researcher timed the volunteers with a stopwatch.
  — Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 18 Jan. 2012
• Ancona purchased the episode on Amazon and timed the country song with a stopwatch.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 7 Dec. 2023
• The dog then runs down the dock, leaps, swims to a toy that’s suspended at the end of the pool, and grabs it—all under a stopwatch.
  — Christopher Solomon, Outside Online, 18 June 2018
• Meyer’s coach, Sherm Chavoor, held practices twice a day and used a stopwatch in lieu of a pace clock.
  — Karen Crouse, New York Times, 26 June 2016
• Places start connecting to thoughts, which then become memories, and the rhythm is in your body not the stopwatch.
  — Laird Borrelli-Persson, Vogue, 29 Oct. 2025