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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1. • Sandglass

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1. hourglass

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

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1. 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.

2. Jean Paul:

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

3. Robin Green:

   You think a man is a man cause he wears team colors and guzzles beer in front of the tube Can't you see, boys, the sands of time are dribbling through the hourglass

4. Harney County Sheriff Dave Ward:

   We can't get things to normal until we unite as a community and ask these folks to go home so we can start working together, the fact is there is there is an hourglass, and it's running. And time is going to run out.

5. 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.