sundial

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

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

“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

He was the first person in Greece to make a sundial, a map of the known world and a celestial globe that showed the patterns of the constellations.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

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 covers can also conceal clocks, sundials, first aid supplies, inkwells, sewing kits, food, cigarettes, microscopes, cameras, toys, office supplies, recipes, cosmetics, mirrors, jewels, lingerie, collars, musical instruments, radios, tape recorders and keys.

From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2014

Werner’s favorite is one about light: eclipses and sundials, auroras and wavelengths.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr