sundial

Example Sentences

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It also serves as a sundial and astronomical calendar.

From Seattle Times

The stage was minimally furnished with a large drum on its side holding a stairway to heaven, the two together creating a sundial.

From Seattle Times

He cracked the eggs in, spacing them apart as if on a sundial, and cheered when they didn’t spread.

From New York Times

Aside from this discovery, the first precision-geared mechanism known is a relatively simple—yet impressive for the time—geared sundial and calendar of Byzantine origin dating to about C.E.

From Scientific American

They didn’t want to anger the big guy by abbreviating his name on a sundial.

From Washington Post