How to Use sundial in a Sentence

sundial

noun

• The U.S. and the U.K., by contrast, have turned back the sundial.
  — James Wolcott, The Hive, 9 Aug. 2017
• Beep’s and the sundial are on our 49 Mile Scenic Route.
  — Heather Knight, SFChronicle.com, 15 Nov. 2019
• The pole serves as a gnomon, the part of a sundial that casts a shadow to denote time.
  — Jeanne Huber, Washington Post, 20 Apr. 2020
• The sundial shows the most exact time at the spring and autumn equinoxes.
  — Karel Janicek, Fox News, 20 Apr. 2018
• Athletes inch around the bases like light across a sundial.
  — Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 14 July 2022
• The sundial that resides in the middle of the garden was a gift from the 10th Duke of Beaufort and his staff on the Badminton Estate.
  — Rachel Silva, ELLE Decor, 27 Sep. 2022
• The last sundial was placed was in 2008, for Latin music heartthrob José José.
  — Los Angeles Times, 26 Mar. 2021
• And this sundial in the shape of a cross is a gem among gems for its melding of science, religion and art.
  — Steve Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 6 July 2017
• Even the giant sundial out front is getting into the act.
  — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 4 Sep. 2020
• From a pagan temple to a cosmic sundial to a Christian church, the Pantheon has lived up to its name of all things to all gods.
  — Christine Van Blokland, USA TODAY, 26 Apr. 2017
• And near the front entrance, a big sundial lets students locate the sun’s position as light spills through the windows.
  — Kellie B. Gormly, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Feb. 2023
• The earliest record of a sundial was dated in ancient Egypt around 1500 BC.
  — Ted Mico, Forbes, 29 Oct. 2021
• Without the 9 to 5 metering out the hours of our day, breakfast-time, lunch-time, snack-time and dinner-time have become the new sundials of our waking hours.
  — Amanda Albee, Dallas News, 17 Apr. 2020
• There are shops, restaurants, and galleries to explore, but the area’s biggest draw is the four-acre desert botanical garden marked with a huge sundial — one of the world’s largest.
  — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 15 Mar. 2023
• The ancient Egyptians invented the first water clocks and sundials more than 3,500 years ago.
  — Stephanie Pappas, Scientific American, 25 Apr. 2023
• That might explain why the villa’s bronzes include an exuberantly leaping piglet and a sundial in the form of a ham.
  — Peter Saenger, WSJ, 21 June 2019
• Outside, check out the giant sundial designed by sculptor Henry Moore, and the shiny bronze Copernicus statue in the front of the building.
  — Rebecca Holland, Forbes, 21 May 2021
• Art deco details abound, including a sundial on the front of the house, door medallions, and a dramatic staircase in the foyer.
  — Megan Barber, Curbed, 26 June 2019
• Previously, the Romans and other cultures used sundials to track daytime hours of the sun.
  — Kyle Roderick, Forbes, 16 July 2023
• The need to gauge the divisions of the day and night led the ancient Egyptians, Greeks and Romans to create sundials, water clocks and other early chronometric tools.
  — William J. H. Andrewes, Scientific American, 23 Jan. 2012
• A more than 2,000-year-old portable sundial in the shape of an Italian ham was actually found near Pompeii.
  — Eoin O'Carroll, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Mar. 2021
• Military experts say the cloud and its dark shadow can be seen as a kind of sundial that suggests when an American plane took the photograph.
  — William J. Broad, New York Times, 23 May 2016
• The perfect gift from a wife to a husband, this personalized sundial is sure to guide all of your adventures together.
  — Cailey Lindberg, Good Housekeeping, 24 Oct. 2022
• Up until the early 19th century sundials were the main instrument people used to tell time.
  — Megan Arnett, Scientific American, 15 Mar. 2018
• The gnomon - the part of the sundial that casts the shadow - is needed so that scientists back home on Earth can see how lighting changes from full illumination to shadow.
  — Discover Magazine, 6 Aug. 2012
• One of the museum's main architectural features is the Oculus, which serves as a sundial; as the sun moves across the sky, a circle of sunlight tracks time on a calendar set into the floor.
  — Stefanie Waldek, Travel + Leisure, 16 July 2021
• His design was circular: a brick path, set in a lawn, that formed seven concentric rings winding toward a sundial in the center.
  — Nicola Twilley, The New Yorker, 22 Nov. 2021
• Taxidermied crabs and macaws share space with a beguiling pocket sundial from the 16th century.
  — Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2024
• Nieto’s artful shirt offers abstract embroidery of a Dorado fish on the front and a stitched sundial flower on the back in a color palette that is an ode to ocean water colors.
  — Houston Chronicle, 18 May 2018
• Among sunflowers and sundials, this summer home is perfect for anyone—including their rescue puppy Foxy Lady—to have the space and permission to feel light and play.
  — Ko Im, Town & Country, 14 July 2015

Last Updated: 18 Dec 2024