Gadget largely pooh-poohed by men until the 20th century

Usage examples of wristwatch.

Mossad agents rapped his knuckles on the window, pointed to his wristwatch and said something in Hebrew.

One hot July afternoon Max set up a five foot high sheet of his shatterproof glass, taut in a narrow steel frame, and, to mimic a jewelry store display, put his own erratic wristwatch behind it.

Ray snorted with just the tiniest hint of amusement and glanced down at his wristwatch.

Then he moved a lot of unopened mail from where it was leaning against an antique carriage clock and compared the time with that on his wristwatch.

Entering Peevers Mansion had been like turning his wristwatch back several dozen years.

If Smirnoff had really rigged it up out of plastique, it had to be something pretty simple and obvious, probably timed with a Smurf wristwatch.

There were two personal cellphones that no longer functioned and two digital databank wristwatches that, on close inspection, were clear anachronisms.

One of the chessplayers was a nigger, wearing a gold wristwatch on one brown arm coming out of a short-sleeved pink shirt.

I walked around that crash siteand don't try telling me you don't remember it, because I know you doamnesia my assand saw those body parts and shoes and wristwatches and dinner trays piled up and charbroiled like so much pepper steak on the grill at Benihana'sthat I could walk through all of that and wish my own girl dead?

Steeling herself, Apara followed them up to the checkpoint and waited as they stopped at the detector and handed their wristwatches, coins, and belts to the women on duty, then stepped through the detector, single-file.

In attendance, balanced on my insecure furniture, were ' Shady" Nooks, a silver haired and suntanned person who also sported a large gold wristwatch, and his articled clerk, Miss Stebbings, a nice-looking girl fresh from law school, who had clearly no idea what area of the law she had got into.

TWELVE Nancy's wristwatch indicated just three minutes after two, on Friday afternoon when Baer pulled his car up in front of the house on Benham Road.

Nobody even looked up from their own concerns to notice him… One of the chessplayers was a nigger, wearing a gold wristwatch on one brown arm coming out of a short-sleeved pink shirt.

An hour later, as the helicopter hovered and then began its descent to the small military fort at Karoi, Craig glanced at his wristwatch.

All a shocked Scarpetta saw at the filthy, water-soaked, smoking scene was a charred body and a faceless skull with silver hair and a titanium wristwatch that had belonged to Benton Wesley.