Examples of orientate in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web In El Paso, people have opened small businesses orientated to the lowriding community. Fernanda Figueroa and Melissa Perez Winder, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Oct. 2024 The more iconoclastic Porter has orientated herself as the agent of change — running, to some degree, against the D.C. establishment that Schiff represents. Julia Wick, Los Angeles Times, 4 Mar. 2024 There is discernible roll under cornering loads, but only to an extent that helps to orientate the driver to growing lateral forces. Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 19 July 2023 The tablet can also be mounted on a standard VESA mount arm, and Xencelabs said a multi-axis stand that can freely orientate the tablet vertically or horizontally will be available to purchase separately (though no price or release date has been mentioned). Jess Weatherbed, The Verge, 24 Mar. 2023 Some birds can sense the Earth’s magnetic field and orientate themselves with the ease of a compass needle. Ed Yong, Discover Magazine, 8 July 2010 Even on clear moonless nights, many beetles still manage to orientate along straight paths. Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2013 In a planetarium, the beetles orientate equally well when rolling under a full starlit sky as when only the Milky Way is present. Ncbi Rofl, Discover Magazine, 2 Apr. 2013 The first thing to look for is what’s called the square of Pegasus, although this time of year the square is orientated diagonally in the sky, so look for a giant diamond of four stars about halfway up in the east-southeastern sky. Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 20 Oct. 2019

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“Orientate.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/orientate. Accessed 30 Oct. 2024.

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