How to Use orientation in a Sentence

orientation

noun

• New students need to go through a short orientation before they begin classes.
• These materials are used for the orientation of new employees.
• Her later works were more introspective in orientation.
• They identified as bisexual in orientation.
• The organization has a decidedly conservative orientation.
• If so, lay the top of the sheet to the correct orientation of your bed.
  — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
• The orientation of a single bond in the tail of BMAL1 can shorten the day.
  — Quanta Magazine, 10 Oct. 2023
• In the Instagram video, the footage is cropped and the orientation is flipped.
  — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
• The orientation will allow the cells to follow the sun’s east to west movement across the sky.
  — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2023
• The arc-like orientation of the islands is due to the nature of their formation.
  — Erik Klemetti, Discover Magazine, 30 Nov. 2023
• Top tip: frame this video in the same orientation as your movie to you can edit them together to make a movie of eclipse day.
  — Jamie Carter, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• The mock floor session was part of a full two-day orientation to teach lawmakers the basics of their new jobs.
  — Sean Maguire, Anchorage Daily News, 14 Jan. 2023
• The lucky few who made the cut got to experience orientation, Glossier-style.
  — Jason Sheeler, Peoplemag, 8 Sep. 2023
• In its anti-pull orientation, the leash can’t get stuck under your dog’s legs.
  — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
• Once set up, simply place your iPhone on a MagSafe charger in landscape orientation and press the side button to see the clock.
  — Simon Hill, WIRED, 7 Feb. 2024
• Last month, a 14-year-old was killed after being hit by a car while riding his bike to his high school orientation in The Colony.
  — Lana Ferguson, Dallas News, 15 Aug. 2023
• Soon, a man from the foundation, Iván Díaz, climbed a hill above the camp, beginning the morning’s orientation.
  — Julie Turkewitz Federico Rios, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2023
• Swap and Silence the Pads Remove the old pads and pay attention to the orientation of any guide plates and the wear indicator.
  — Jeff Dengate, Popular Mechanics, 14 Aug. 2023
• Emilio Ortiz, 14, went through this orientation and wondered what happened to the boy who got hurt.
  — Hannah Dreier Meridith Kohut, New York Times, 18 Sep. 2023
• The Alto workstation, which was never sold to the public, had a bitmapped screen that mimicked the size and orientation of a piece of paper.
  — Jeremy Reimer, Ars Technica, 19 Jan. 2023
• When the boat loses orientation and goes off course, things turn violent as the migrants blame the smugglers.
  — Ed Meza, Variety, 15 Feb. 2024
• Seconds later, the phone's orientation changed, which suggests that someone picked up the phone.
  — Steve Helling, Peoplemag, 1 Feb. 2023
• If the keyboard won’t turn sideways, your phone is locked in portrait orientation.
  — Popular Science, 9 Nov. 2023
• The two states of the ion correspond to two orientations of this magnet, say up and down, and they can be set by hitting the ion with a laser beam thinner than a human hair.
  — Katherine Wright, Scientific American, 28 Sep. 2023
• This backpack leaf blower is designed to be used by someone right-handed, and since the tube is attached on the right side of the backpack, there’s no way to change the orientation.
  — Kat De Naoum, Better Homes & Gardens, 21 Oct. 2023
• Facebook, as the firm was known before its re-orientation, doesn’t exactly have youth in its DNA.
  — David Meyer, Fortune, 7 Feb. 2023
• With the motherboard in this orientation, the CPU ends up close to the front panel (rather than in the upper-left corner), and your video card runs vertically, up and down the rear half of the case.
  — PCMAG, 8 Jan. 2023
• That will determine the size and orientation of your toilet.
  — Adria Greenhauff, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 Apr. 2023
• All of the graves were facing southwest to northeast, following the orientation of a nearby church.
  — Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 7 Mar. 2024
• The two started with an off-the-shelf magnetometer, the kind that’s used in cell phones to help orientation in navigation apps.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 14 Jan. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024