How to Use waypoint in a Sentence

waypoint

noun

• In a few days’ time, his friend was supposed to hike the trail to the waypoint and claim the prize.
  — Spencer Buell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
• The winner is the person who got to all the waypoints in the worst vehicle.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2018
• This place has been a waypoint for travelers for a long time.
  — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
• The last thing to do was to choose traversable paths to waypoints chosen by the team.
  — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
• The first waypoint was slightly more than 1,300 feet below the space station.
  — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
• Drop the icon and then customize your waypoint with a name and an emoji symbol.
  — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 23 Sep. 2022
• So what are the crucial and foreseeable waypoints ahead?
  — Philip Zelikow, The Atlantic, 11 Aug. 2017
• The current system is radar-based and requires planes to fly from one waypoint to the next rather than in a straight line to their destination.
  — John Wagner, Washington Post, 5 June 2017
• Along the way, a series of waypoints have been plotted to avoid shipping lanes as much as possible.
  — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• The have been referred to as lakeshore sentinels, offering waypoints on water and markers on land, and come in all shapes and sizes.
  — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
• Planned waypoint flying is included too, a first for the Air series.
  — Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 25 July 2023
• Libya is a major waypoint for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East to Europe.
  — Washington Post, 30 Nov. 2019
• The country is a major waypoint for migrants fleeing war and poverty in Africa and the Middle East to Europe.
  — Washington Post, 11 Jan. 2020
• At the same time, having a few waypoints, like Tucson or Abiquiu, is a counterbalance.
  — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 17 May 2018
• This small station could be used as a waypoint for astronauts going to and from the lunar surface.
  — Science, 9 Dec. 2020
• Combined with the fish finder, the GPS will mark waypoints for fish and structure and allow the operator to repeat a drift.
  — Ric Burnley, Field & Stream, 3 May 2023
• The water ice could contribute to rocket fuel and turn the Moon into a waypoint between Earth and Mars.
  — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Oct. 2019
• In Dnipro in central Ukraine, a main waypoint for those fleeing the fighting, new arrivals are in constant need of comfort and shelter.
  — Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 7 June 2022
• Marlene wanted to believe Barb’s house was a waypoint on her return to Tulsa.
  — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
• Another colleague is then responsible for driving the load to the next waypoint, and so on.
  — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
• No thanks to me, who’d incorrectly entered some GPS digits, causing a waypoint to be half a mile off.
  — al, 14 Nov. 2022
• Anand has compiled hundreds of such waypoints in his Buddha-trail database.
  — Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
• This Gateway could serve as waypoint for astronauts to live and do research, according to the space agency.
  — Loren Grush, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2018
• A couple hundred feet below us was the GPS waypoint that could solve one of the greatest mysteries of mountaineering.
  — Mark Synnott, National Geographic, 16 June 2020
• In this demo, we were tasked with breaking up two specific crimes and killing time between those by using spidey sense to toggle a litany of waypoints.
  — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
• One of their waypoints is Borrego Springs where thousands are counted by volunteer hawk watchers from March to mid-April.
  — Ernie Cowan, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Apr. 2023
• The waypoints speak more to exotic places from the old spice trade than to where concrete is being poured (no mention of a military base in Djibouti, for instance).
  — The Economist, 6 Feb. 2020
• Cogs are not working in the way they were designed to, or each supply chain waypoint can't adjust or work together in a different way to achieve the result.
  — Michael Gale, Forbes, 4 Oct. 2021
• Marrakesh, the largest city affected by Morocco’s quake, has been a hub and waypoint for travelers in the region for nearly 1,000 years.
  — Benjamin Soloway, Washington Post, 15 Sep. 2023
• Small towns have long played an outsized role in American songwriting, often serving as waypoint between past and present, a place that that some characters leave, others yearn to return and many are left behind.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 13 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 17 Jul 2024