Clockwise is an English word with synonyms like counterclockwise or dextrorotary. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Clockwise in a sentence
Clockwise meaning
In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.
Synonyms of Clockwise
Using Clockwise
- The main meaning on this page is: In a curve or twist corresponding to the movement of the hands of a clock.
- Useful related words include: counterclockwise, dextrorotary, dextrorotatory, right-handed.
- In the example corpus, clockwise often appears in combinations such as: clockwise from, the clockwise, in clockwise.
Context around Clockwise
- Average sentence length in these examples: 25.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 13 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Clockwise
- In this selection, "clockwise" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 25.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, counter, anti, m25, rotation, junction and warm stand out and add context to how "clockwise" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include the m25 clockwise junction 2 and a clockwise warm water. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "clockwise" sits close to words such as adhering, adrenaline and advert, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with clockwise
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
R is right side clockwise, but R' is right side counter-clockwise. (12 words)
The arc can be performed in either an inward (counter-clockwise) or outward (clockwise) fashion. (15 words)
Some games vary this by allowing two possible column orientations: one for counter clockwise and one for clockwise rotations. (19 words)
In theory, jumps with a counter-rotated entry, such as the Lutz and Walley, can be used as the second jump of combination when preceded by a jump with the opposite rotational sense, such as a combination of a clockwise Walley and counter-clockwise Lutz. (45 words)
During this time, the link road between the M25 clockwise Junction 2 and the A2 east-bound Darenth Interchange will also close, as will the M25 clockwise Junction 2 entry slip road. (32 words)
Once the manure is removed from the horn it is placed in lukewarm water and is vigorously stirred toward the region of your heart clockwise and counter-clockwise motion for an hour. (32 words)
Example sentences (20)
During this time, the link road between the M25 clockwise Junction 2 and the A2 east-bound Darenth Interchange will also close, as will the M25 clockwise Junction 2 entry slip road.
Lift one leg in a straight line such that it is parallel to the ground and move the leg in clockwise and anti-clockwise directions to make circles.
Once the manure is removed from the horn it is placed in lukewarm water and is vigorously stirred toward the region of your heart clockwise and counter-clockwise motion for an hour.
If you pirouette on your left leg going counter clockwise during daylight hours or right leg and clockwise after dark you can not be arrested.
A clockwise warm-water gyre occupies the northern Atlantic, and a counter-clockwise warm-water gyre appears in the southern Atlantic.
A polarization state can then be described in relation to the geometrical parameters of the ellipse, and its "handedness", that is, whether the rotation around the ellipse is clockwise or counter clockwise.
Circular polarization may be referred to as right-handed or left-handed, and clockwise or anti-clockwise, depending on the direction in which the electric field vector rotates.
In that case the direction of the fields' rotation, and thus the specified polarization, may be either clockwise or counter clockwise; this is referred to as the wave's chirality or handedness.
In theory, jumps with a counter-rotated entry, such as the Lutz and Walley, can be used as the second jump of combination when preceded by a jump with the opposite rotational sense, such as a combination of a clockwise Walley and counter-clockwise Lutz.
In traditional games, the unsymmetrical vertical orientation I-, Z-, and S-pieces will fill the same columns for each clockwise and counter clockwise rotation.
Its path is counter-clockwise for the left leg and clockwise for the right leg, and force is generated by both legs' hip abduction.
Just as in the other convention, right-handedness corresponds to a clockwise rotation and left-handedness corresponds to an anti-clockwise rotation.
R is right side clockwise, but R' is right side counter-clockwise.
Some games vary this by allowing two possible column orientations: one for counter clockwise and one for clockwise rotations.
The arc can be performed in either an inward (counter-clockwise) or outward (clockwise) fashion.
The vast majority of skaters rotate all their jumps and spins in the same direction; counter-clockwise jumping is more common than clockwise.
They also jumped and spun in opposite directions, Yamaguchi counter-clockwise, and Galindo clockwise, which gave them an unusual look on the ice.
This effect is the result of a three-dimensional intersection of helicoidal columns (for example a square cross-section column twisting clockwise and a similar one twisting counter-clockwise).
Throwing technique amboxcheck A right-handed boomerang is thrown with a counter-clockwise spin causing a counter-clockwise flight (as seen from above).
Transposition can be seen as a rotation of t either clockwise or anti-clockwise on a circle, where each note of the chord is rotated equally.
Common combinations with clockwise
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- clockwise from 46×
- the clockwise 13×
- in clockwise 12×
- clockwise and 12×
- clockwise or 10×
- clockwise around 7×
- clockwise direction 6×
- counter clockwise 5×
- and clockwise 5×
- is clockwise 5×