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1. hourglass
noun. ['ˈaʊɝˌglæs'] a sandglass that runs for sixty minutes.
Etymology
- glass (English)
- hour (English)
- houre (Middle English (1100-1500))
Rhymes with Hourglass
- eyeglass
- fiberglass
- outclass
- plexiglass
- plexiglass
- spyglass
- sunglass
- underclass
- upperclass
Sentences with hourglass
1. Noun, singular or mass
Perform front and side planks to sculpt your waist and work your way toward an hourglass figure.
Quotes about hourglass
1. And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not.
- Søren Kierkegaard
2. One of the gravestones in the cemetery near the earliest church has an anchor on it and an hourglass, and the words In Hope.In Hope. Why did they put that above a dead person? Was it the corpse hoping, or those still alive?
- Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale
