Explore Clocking through 10+ example sentences from English, with an explanation of the meaning and related words like duration or continuance. Ideal for language learners, writers and word enthusiasts.
Clocking meaning
present participle and gerund of clock
Synonyms of Clocking
Using Clocking
- The main meaning on this page is: present participle and gerund of clock
- Useful related words include: duration, continuance.
- In the example corpus, clocking often appears in combinations such as: clocking in, clocking up, after clocking.
Context around Clocking
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 16 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 19 statements, 1 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clocking
- In this selection, "clocking" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, water, medal, meter, two and off stand out and add context to how "clocking" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include 200 meter clocking in at and among those clocking the least. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clocking" sits close to words such as acumen, agri and ajayi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clocking
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Want to keep them from clocking in late or clocking out early? (12 words)
He followed up with more gold in the 200-meter, clocking in at 20.79 seconds. (16 words)
Avatar: The Way of Water, clocking in at 3hrs 12m, can lay claim to the event movie tag. (18 words)
In slap fighting, short of biting your mouthguard and hoping to hell that your opponent obeys the rules against clocking you in the ear, there’s little for the “defender” to do but stand there and take it. (38 words)
Fellow Norwegian Adrian Smiseth Sejersted was well on pace to a silver medal, clocking in at the fourth and final interval before the finish line in second place before crashing out near the finish line. (35 words)
It’s the creepiest and bloodiest Marvel project by far, and clocking in at a lean 53 minutes long, it’s a perfect, snack-sized Halloween treat heading into the spookiest of seasons. (33 words)
Want to keep them from clocking in late or clocking out early? (12 words)
Example sentences (20)
Want to keep them from clocking in late or clocking out early?
And within the finals, she got here out on high once more, clocking a 51.52 to beat the sector and earn the crown of Big Ten champion.
Avatar: The Way of Water, clocking in at 3hrs 12m, can lay claim to the event movie tag.
But Brits are among those clocking the least amount screen time worldwide, ranking just 41st for the number of minutes spent on social media per day.
Fellow Norwegian Adrian Smiseth Sejersted was well on pace to a silver medal, clocking in at the fourth and final interval before the finish line in second place before crashing out near the finish line.
He followed up with more gold in the 200-meter, clocking in at 20.79 seconds.
In slap fighting, short of biting your mouthguard and hoping to hell that your opponent obeys the rules against clocking you in the ear, there’s little for the “defender” to do but stand there and take it.
Ireland-based trainer Graham stole the show on night one of the Star Sports English Greyhound Derby by winning four races and clocking the fastest time with Swords Rex.
It’s the creepiest and bloodiest Marvel project by far, and clocking in at a lean 53 minutes long, it’s a perfect, snack-sized Halloween treat heading into the spookiest of seasons.
It was a mercifully short flight, clocking under two hours and one snack, but service for Xander and Chloe occurred several times during that span.
Kelvin Kiptum has shattered the men's marathon world record held by fellow Kenyan Eliud Kipchoge, clocking two hours and 35 seconds (2:00:35) in the Chicago Marathon.
Lanfear brought home the gold in the 100-back event, clocking in a time of 47.83 — good enough for his second individual school record on the weekend.
McIntosh fired a warning shot in March, by clocking three minutes, 56.08 seconds at the Canadian trials.
North Reading also benefited from a second-place finish in the sprint medley relay, with Roberts, Jenna Mahoney, Tiara Lamont and Annalise Butler clocking in at 4:24.22.
On the revenue front, the logistics player is confident of clocking a turnover of Rs 10,000 crore by FY26.
Operating as Beesfriend since 2020, he has been juggling his work after clocking off from his IT job.
That month, the Consumer Price Index rose 8.5% (annually) after clocking a 7.9% rise in February.
The barge sauna will be the most expensive the company has built, clocking in at more than $100,000.
The excited man, who noted their relationship would be clocking two years by May, with Jumoke on Twitter.
The length of the concert is the longest of her career, clocking in at just over three hours and including 44 of her songs.
Common combinations with clocking
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- clocking in 45×
- clocking up 15×
- after clocking 8×
- by clocking 7×
- and clocking 6×
- clocking seconds 6×
- clocking time 4×
- clocking out 3×
- clocking to 3×
- clocking the 3×