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Usage examples of rotates.

It is the more remarkable, because we shall meet with an analogous case in the leaves of the allied genus Melilotus, in which the terminal leaflet rotates at night so as to present one edge to the zenith and at the same time bends to one side, so that its upper surface comes into contact with that of one of the two now vertical lateral leaflets.

The terminal leaflet of Melilotus likewise rotates, by which movement one of its lateral edges is directed upwards, and at the same time it moves either to the left or to the right, until its upper surface comes into contact with that of the lateral leaflet on the same side, which has likewise rotated on its own axis.

Randy rotates it before his face in the way of a panicky driver with a steering wheel, and gets it to line up with his view.

At around seventy degrees, something rotates into view at the edge of the screen.

Randy rotates the box ninety degrees and holds it between his knees so its long axis is pointed at the television set, then grips the top of the sac and carefully parts its heat-sealed seam, which purrs as it gives way.

Avi rotates around his vertical axis as Randy comes abreast of him and then breaks into a stride that matches Randy's pace.

The sphere turns, the little wheel rotates, and, as seen from the Earth, Mars does its loop-the-loop.

By following the surface features moving with Venus as it rotates, it was possible for the first time to determine reliably the length of its day - how long it takes Venus to spin once on its axis.

The cap has a black rectangular window, and as Squeaky rotates it, Hiro can see the dark red glint of an inactive LED display inside, like looking at the display on a turned-off calculator.

As she rotates, she sees the other chopper above her and off to the side, glimpses the faces watching her, knows that all of this is being relayed, over the radio, to Rife.

Monica rotates back to the floor and looks at Amber, suddenly very Bob.

But before he can continue, the pile of rock whines slightly and rotates beneath the cat, who has to stand and do a little twirl in place, tail bushing up in annoyance.

Also, since the planet rotates in the opposite sense from its direction around the Sun, its day—the time from noon to noon for a point of the planet—is 117 Earth days.

It is a strong cable, 8,500 kilometers long in one design, that rotates about its center of mass as the latter goes around the Earth in an orbit 4,250 kilometers above the surface.

Josh rotates the image some more on one screen, tries to duplicate the exact position of Helen Quincy’s hairless, eyeless, decapitated-looking image on another screen.