How to Use circumnavigate in a Sentence

circumnavigate

verb
  • The ship circumnavigated the world.
  • In 2015, a man set out to circumnavigate the globe on foot.
    Los Angeles Times, 15 July 2021
  • Or rent a bike for free and cycle the Loop trail that circumnavigates the park.
    Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
  • First, a screen pass to Mikey Matthews on the right side enabled him to circumnavigate the defense and sprint to a 40-yard gain.
    Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Now, Orion is on a 25-and-a-half day journey to circumnavigate the moon.
    Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
  • That’s fast enough to circumnavigate the Earth in about 45 minutes.
    Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Forget 80 days⁠—Konyukhov used jet streams to circumnavigate the globe in just 11 days.
    David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2019
  • Over a five-lap race, each driver must circumnavigate the inner oval four times and the outer once.
    J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
  • Mock is the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world alone.
    Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
  • By the end of the year, the team had played an MLS-record 53 games in four countries and two continents, traveling far enough to circumnavigate the globe 2½ times.
    Houston Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2024
  • This is not the first time that Greeks have been forced to circumnavigate piles of trash on sidewalks because of a protracted strike.
    Niki Kitsantonis, New York Times, 29 June 2017
  • His plan is to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe from east to west and pole to pole without the help of motors, sails, or solar energy.
    The Editors, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2014
  • Fiennes was the first to circumnavigate the world from pole to pole, crossed the Antarctic on foot, broke countless world records and discovered a lost city in Arabia.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Portable fire pits are an easy way to circumnavigate having to build a fire from scratch.
    Mike Richard, menshealth.com, 11 May 2023
  • Pick a beach club and lounge for the day on Playa Norte, or rent a golf cart to circumnavigate the island and discover its breathtaking vistas.
    Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Secrets of the Dead Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set sail to gain control of the global spice trade and become the first to circumnavigate the earth.
    Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • If completed, their trip would’ve clinched Earhart as the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
    Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
  • That is way too much submarine for Taiwan, which doesn't need large ships with the ability to circumnavigate the globe.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2017
  • In the late sixties, a French sailor named Bernard Moitessier entered a race to circumnavigate the world on a yacht, solo, with no outside assistance.
    Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • Few drive the entire Ring Road, the highway that circumnavigates the island, and even fewer make their way to the interior, known as the Highlands.
    Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2024
  • But these kinds of adventures are just par for the course—if that course was circumnavigating the globe in a hot air balloon—for members of The Explorer’s Club.
    Georgia Frances King, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2019
  • On their most grueling tour, the Beatles circumnavigate the globe in a week.
    Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • Over the course of three days in June, Argentinian polo player Nacho Figueras circumnavigated the globe—all for the sake of his sport.
    Lindsay Silberman, Town & Country, 14 June 2017
  • By the 1980s, however, ships grew large and fast enough to circumnavigate the global in a cost-efficient manner.
    Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 25 Mar. 2021
  • Scott wears a cravat and circumnavigates the space coolly.
    Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Jan. 2024
  • Lawson, a 41-year-old Baltimore native, was aiming to take off this month from Hawaii to solo-circumnavigate the world in about 70 days.
    Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Most follow existing gravel, dirt, or paved paths in the metro area, which have been strung together to circumnavigate the city.
    Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
  • Since teaming up on the AVP tour in 2015, the brothers estimate the cumulative miles from their work travels are enough to circumnavigate the globe three or four times.
    Thuc Nhi Nguyen Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 11 Nov. 2020
  • John Hurlbut, who circumnavigated the world at the age of 29, before settling down in Wethersfield.
    Joan Hunt, Courant Community, 21 Dec. 2017
  • The recent DeLand High School graduate hopes to break the world record for the youngest person to circumnavigate the globe solo in a single-engine aircraft.
    Patrick Connolly, orlandosentinel.com, 13 Aug. 2020

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