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egg timers
n. (egg timer English)
Usage examples of "egg timers".
Noble's mental image of the sandbags leaking their contents like a row of egg timers did not seem likely to materialize for some time.
The earth rolls and the sun appears to mount, mountains erode, fruits decay, the Foraminifera adds another chamber to its shell, babies' fingernails grow as does the hair of the dead in their graves, and in egg timers the sands fall and the eggs cook on.
Almost everyone was in the kitchen, looking for things like egg timers, bottle caps, and toothpicks.