sundial

Example Sentences

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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

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