Sentence examples for moved counterclockwise from inspiring English sources

The model school was moved counterclockwise in a circle at the outer edge of the tank at a speed of 5.5 rotations per minute.

The planet moves counterclockwise on its epicycle.

You should move counterclockwise beginning close to the wall".

The great spiral moves counterclockwise — west, south, east, north.

The audience for a given route is divided into eight groups of four, half moving clockwise and half moving counterclockwise.

It will start in Greenland and move counterclockwise towards the northeast, passing over Iceland and the UK.

The songs are performed in the "ring shout" style; the singers stand in a circle and then move counterclockwise in a shuffling dance.

Meanwhile, the centre of the epicycle moves counterclockwise around the eccentric circle, which is centred near (but not quite exactly at) Earth.

The Reunion Island debris would support the working theory that the jet went down in the Indian Ocean and the debris was carried by the current, which moves counterclockwise.

When young Laertes heads for France, he clip-clops off to the right on the back of a wooden horse, riding counterclockwise; returning for revenge at the end of the play, he rides in from the left, still moving counterclockwise.

Clocks are an evolution of the sundial, and in the northern hemisphere a sundial's shadow runs clockwise, while in the southern hemisphere it moves counterclockwise – making the modern clock a representation of light in the northern hemisphere.