sundial
Americannoun
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sundials
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noun
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You’re watching a ticker that moves like a sundial.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
As I squeezed the pedal harder, the animated speedometer—designed a bit like an Aztec sundial, with spiky points blooming around the center—grew in radiance.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 25, 2025
Place that shade on a sundial and Meghan, Duchess of Sussex could time her bakes to it with the utmost accuracy.
From Salon ● Aug. 27, 2025
Only 28% said they preferred the sundial shuffle.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 8, 2025
"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
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
This is the kind of time indicated by sundials, and it probably represents the earliest measure of time used by ancient civilizations.
From Textbooks ● Oct. 13, 2016
The need to gauge the divisions of the day and night led the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans to create sundials, clocks and other early chronometric tools.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 31, 2011
They did not have mechanical clocks, but they had sundials and water clocks.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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