Exercise-bike adjunct

Usage examples of odometer.

In a cylindrical bracelet of gold about my wrist was my Barsoomian chronometer--a delicate instrument that records the tals and xats and zodes of Martian time, presenting them to view beneath a strong crystal much after the manner of an earthly odometer.

She settled on a three-year-old Buick Skylark, two-tone blue with twenty-eight thousand miles on the odometer, and paid sixty-eight hundred bucks after haggling with the used car manager at Don Snell Buick for a couple of weeks.

I kept my eyes on the odometer as we passed a succession of plastic mailboxes on posts, all neatly aligned by the roadside, the only sign that, somewhere deep in these forests, lay habitation.

Samplers walked the lines of their grids, pushing along a bicycle wheel with an odometer attached to measure off the distance between sampling points.

Multiple antennas bobbed on his red 1990 Jeep Cherokee, which Bubba did not realize had been listed in the Used Car Buying Guide as a used car to avoid, or that it had been wrecked and had a hundred thousand more miles on it than the odometer showed.

For the first two miles on 191, neither he nor Jilly spoke, and as the third mile began to clock up on the odometer, Dylan started to shake.

Moreover, the majority of domestic violence victims are monitored by husbands who check the odometers on their cars, their phone bills, their grocery spending, and who manipulate situations to detach them from their families and friends.

His father had recently been indicted for tampering with the odometers on the used cars he sold, so Billy was sensitive to public humiliation.

Just outside Moscow, however, they'd siphon some gas, sell it at a cut rate to Tsypin, change their odometers and, at day's end, return to their terminal with the always plausible story of bad roads and detours.

Here, apart from the sun compass and the odometer mileage and the book, he was alone, his own invention.