Sentence examples for turn counterclockwise from inspiring English sources

Turn counterclockwise to release.

Though often ramrod strait, the tusks always grow in tight spirals that, from the animal's point of view, turn counterclockwise.

That's when Papa began, in a deliberate, unapologetic way, to turn, counterclockwise, and start dancing with both of those blondes at once.

Winds in a tornado are almost always cyclonic; that is, they turn counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere.

In the Decalogue, named after the 10 Commandments, the hands turn counterclockwise to tell the time, a reference to the way Hebrew is read.

"We as an organization don't work with modern wind turbines," he sniffed, adding, as if to underscore the gap between the traditional and the contemporary, that while the four blades of traditional windmills turn counterclockwise, the three of modern wind turbines go clockwise.

They got to the track and turned counterclockwise, blending with another string of Derby contingents.

The 44 motion detector templates were designed to identify working motions such as sitting down, moving arms, turning counterclockwise, turning clockwise, up-and-down, side-to-side.

Finally, the knob is turned counterclockwise to bring the 90 for the second time to the arrow.

(In other words, that instruction has no real effect!) Another way of saying that the turtle turns toward its own left is that it turns counterclockwise.

Some starters, like Seattle's Felix Hernandez and Baltimore's Kevin Gausman, throw a hybrid splitter/changeup, a pitch thrown with the hand turned counterclockwise at the end.