mark time
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.03 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To stop making progress temporarily; to wait or stand still.
Example Sentences
- "When the colonel has given the signal for the music to beat time, he will give the caution for the movement as above; and the lieutenant colonel will immediately give the word to the right wing to mark time."
- "Next, they were ordered to converge on Bischofsburg. They had spent the morning marking time there."
- "[…] the drum line is a section that needs considerable time to rehearse on its own. […] Always have members stand at attention, in a formation that makes senses […] and reflects formations/configurations actually encourted in the show […], and have them mark time while rehearsing."
- "Monday noon I chased over to the Auditorium and they was only about eighty in line ahead o' me[…] While I was markin' time I looked at the pitchers o' the different actors,"
- "“If I can put money in their pockets and play some New Orleans music, that’s what I can do.” But he’s only marking time until he can return to New Orleans."
- "She had met plenty of lazy professionals in her time, people content to mark time until retirement, but none of them had still been athletic in their mid forties."