Sentence examples for turns counterclockwise from inspiring English sources

(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.

Tact personified, the woman somehow resisted the impulse to grab his nose with her fist and give it several turns counterclockwise till it made a ratcheting noise.

Turn counterclockwise to release.

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.

The combined friction of these two pallets stops the rotating escape when in its path, causing it to 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.

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.

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

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