sundial
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You’re watching a ticker that moves like a sundial.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 12, 2025
There are secrets, a garden replete with a sundial and creepy statues and a house that traps its residents.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 7, 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
“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
"I've been thinking," he said, "about a clock. We could make a sundial We could put a stick in the sand, and then-" The effort to express the mathematical processes involved was too great.
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
By the same token, our current designer proteins, as exciting as they are, are just sundials and wagon wheels.
From Scientific American ● Jun. 22, 2021
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
They did not have mechanical clocks, but they had sundials and water clocks.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
