How to Use stopwatch in a Sentence

stopwatch

noun

• The 40-yard-dash time seems faster than the stopwatch reads.
  — John Shinn Diehards, ajc, 4 Oct. 2017
• Some even back it up on a stopwatch in the 40-yard dash.
  — oregonlive, 27 June 2021
• Starting a stopwatch to know when to give the next dose.
  — Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 6 Aug. 2023
• 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
• Use a clock with a second hand, a stopwatch, or the timer on a cell phone to track the time.
  — Vincent Iannelli, Parents, 30 July 2024
• Start small, and take that stopwatch off your wrist, ok?
  — Nicholas Rice, PEOPLE.com, 26 Aug. 2021
• Come to think of it, that ticking sound may not be a stopwatch or a bomb.
  — Benjamin Svetkey, HollywoodReporter, 28 Apr. 2025
• Tools of the trade for jump-rope exam prep: rope, stopwatch.
  — Jonathan Cheng, WSJ, 27 Sep. 2021
• The other small circles are for a stopwatch (on the left) and seconds (on the right).
  — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2023
• 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
• Set time goals and wear a watch with a stopwatch function.
  — Marc Myers, WSJ, 22 Dec. 2020
• The stopwatch feature can do elapsed time as well as split time.
  — Jim Cobb, Field & Stream, 14 Feb. 2023
• Simple Syrup: First, start the stopwatch on your phone.
  — Jason O'Bryan, Robb Report, 1 Apr. 2023
• Our brains can keep track of short bursts of time like a mental stopwatch.
  — Brianna Abbott, WSJ, 13 Mar. 2019
• Your stopwatch that shows how quickly the Raiders and Bears threw the football against Miller?
  — Mark Kiszla, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 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
• Chase has a stopwatch and is writing times down on a piece of paper.
  — Dana Hunsinger Benbow, The Indianapolis Star, 25 Jan. 2021
• 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
• This watch can sound up to five daily alarms and has a stopwatch and a countdown timer.
  — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2019
• 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
• Let’s look at the stopwatch on a few races on Saturday.
  — John Cherwa, Los Angeles Times, 13 Oct. 2019
• Mary Boulder is sitting next to me, and she’s got a stopwatch.
  — Antonia Blyth, Deadline, 14 May 2025
• And the original plan for the stopwatch drill, subsumed by Covid?
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 29 July 2022
• 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
• The pair sprinted sideline to sideline across the field, while Mayo kept tabs with a stopwatch.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Aug. 2021
• Yoko eventually screened it with a stopwatch, to measure how much screen time Paul got versus John.
  — Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 24 Nov. 2025
• Forget the stopwatch and the stress.
  — Anna Lee C. Iijima, Bon Appetit Magazine, 10 Nov. 2025
• Some also have timers and stopwatches.
  — Bestreviews, Mercury News, 5 Nov. 2025
• 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
• The two-part mini version requires only a chair, willing helper, stopwatch and few spare minutes.
  — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Oct. 2025