sundial
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sundials
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Adorned with decorative finials, it looms, in a certain light, like an enormous sundial.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 13, 2026
You’re watching a ticker that moves like a sundial.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
The name gujeolpan refers to nine ingredients on a plate, with eight colorful vegetables or proteins sliced thinly and arrayed around the edge of plate, much like a mouth-watering sundial.
From Salon ● Oct. 26, 2025
“Our ancestors, always hurried,” she writes in “Angel in the Forest,” “left little evidence of their existence, if one discounts intangibles, a sundial, an apple a day, an angel in the forest.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 10, 2024
"We got a lot of sticks. We could have a sundial each. Then we should know what the time was."
From "Lord of the Flies" by William Golding
Cross the orbit of 6446 Lomberg, the asteroid named in honor of his contributions to science, and sail by Mars, where the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rovers bear sundials he helped design.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023
Other early sundials measured time by the length of a stick’s shadow as the sun moved across the sky rather than by the movement of the shadow across the base, Gautschy says.
From Scientific American ● Apr. 25, 2023
For instance, Grant County operated entirely by a system of sundials and groundhogs; in Pulaski County it was just 7:45 p.m. all the time.
From Golf Digest ● Nov. 2, 2017
Mr. McLemore’s passion for sundials and timepieces, and his staggering talent in building and repairing them, was central to the story.
From New York Times ● Aug. 11, 2017
Werner’s favorite is one about light: eclipses and sundials, auroras and wavelengths.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
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