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Synonyms for hourglass
ˈaʊərˌglæs, -ˌglɑs, ˈaʊ ər-hour·glass

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  1. hourglassnoun

    Synonyms:
    sandglass

  2. hourglassnoun

    A clock made of two glass vessels connected with a narrow passage, with sand flowing through that passage.

    Synonyms:
    sandglass

Princeton's WordNet

  1. hourglassnoun

    a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes

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Concise Medical Dictionary, by Joseph C Segen, MD0.0 / 0 votes

  1. hourglass

    Synonyms:
    Egg timer, sand clock, sandglass, sand timer

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  1. Scott Walker:

    Politics has a musical chairs component to it, you have the hourglass of sand and at the end of the day, there's only one seat.

  2. Anthony Liccione:

    She stared at me, like day stares at an hourglass and night, the sand trickling through time; the sea disappearing to eyes in the dark. But I hear her waves coming in, as she whispers one last chance goodbye.

  3. Jules Renard:

    Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.

  4. Richard Blumenthal:

    You can't simply unleash the monster and say it's too big to control, the hourglass has run out.

  5. Jean Paul:

    The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.


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