clockwise
Example Sentences
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Visitors twirling clockwise for luck have left a small crater on the bull's "lucky spot".
From BBC • May 29, 2026
These vortices form in pairs that rotate in opposite directions, with one spinning clockwise and the other counterclockwise.
From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 2026
Each date would last two minutes — a chime would alert the men when it was time to move clockwise to the next seat.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2026
The typical group rotation pattern occurs in a clockwise fashion.
From MarketWatch • Nov. 24, 2025
Seven stirs counterclockwise, one clockwise, pause...seven stirs counterclockwise, one stir clockwise...
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Vocabulary lists containing clockwise
Middle School Geometry, List 1
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Geometry - Middle School
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Geometry (Base List)
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