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

Last Updated: 14 Dec 2024