How to Use orient in a Sentence

orient

1 of 2 verb

• Orient the map so that north is at the top.
• The house is oriented so that it faces west.
• The program is intended to orient students toward a career in medicine.
• There is a short guide to orient you to the map and some of its functions.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
• It’s a word or phrase to hold in your heart and orient your flow.
  — Catherine Mevs, The New Yorker, 13 Sep. 2022
• Print a trail map as a backup, and use the compass to orient your map.
  — Ashley Mateo, Health.com, 27 May 2021
• To help further orient him, the center of the lake was clearly marked by a buoy.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2021
• Then orient the pieces so that the wood grain of each piece is pointing in the same direction.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 1 May 2021
• The ceilings are marked with numbers and QR codes to help the robots orient themselves.
  — Daisuke Wakabayashi, New York Times, 17 Nov. 2022
• But a large share of this year’s fest events are theater oriented.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
• Remember to bring a map and know how to orient yourself.
  — Julie Corliss, Chicago Tribune, 12 July 2023
• The chorus orients the song in the waters of Defcee’s For All Debts…, where the power of a dollar loomed large.
  — Andre Gee, Rolling Stone, 26 Apr. 2023
• And Josh started looking at the moon, trying to use it as a way to orient ourselves and get back to our car.
  — John Ortved, Vogue, 27 July 2021
• The soldiers did not even have time to orient their guns before they were found by a Russian drone.
  — Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 May 2022
• On Earth, Minkara uses a white cane to help orient herself and navigate the world.
  — Rachel Crowell, Scientific American, 20 Oct. 2021
• Inside, get oriented with a giant aerial map of the city streets and canals.
  — Sunshine Flint, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
• In the past twenty years alone, the ubiquity of G.P.S.-enabled maps has all but eradicated the need to orient on our own.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• Teachers started with the basics: how to orient and hold a book, and where the names of the author and illustrator could be found.
  — New York Times, 8 Mar. 2022
• Regardless, using a night sky app can help you get oriented and find where the comet should be.
  — Carlyn Kranking, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Mar. 2024
• Aside from Main Street, the best way to orient yourself is to look to the mountains, particularly the main ski mountain to the west behind the town.
  — Jessica Dupuy, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2021
• As part of the redesign, Kuma reconfigured the layout to orient each room’s views to the garden.
  — Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 5 Apr. 2023
• Simply orient yourself to put some sort of screen between that bright moon and your vantage point.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• Moths use the Earth’s magnetic field to orient themselves on journeys of hundreds of miles.
  — WIRED, 16 Mar. 2023
• We are taught to orient a huge chunk of our existence around becoming a bride.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• The ride’s building and queue were adjusted to be oriented to Toy Story Land, which opened in 2018.
  — Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2023
• Or maybe twenty years is enough time to orient oneself to the band’s unique cosmology.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• Was there anything specific that helped orient you around who Sharon is now?
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2021
• Thus, a bird in flight might focus on a chorus of frogs in a pond far below in order to orient itself and correct for drift.
  — Kathryn Schulz, The New Yorker, 29 Mar. 2021
• The fast food restaurant has a week of deals in honor of daylight saving time, many of which are breakfast oriented.
  — Sabrina Weiss, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
• We were asked to orient ourselves to land once home to Tatviam, Chumash and Tongva peoples.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2022

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orient

2 of 2 adjective

• The bats swirl, orient, and then form a river of life in the sky.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2019
• Put food on the tray that slides in and out of the center of the tube, and orient it towards the sun.
  — Kevin Dupzyk, Popular Mechanics, 23 June 2017
• Take some time each day to be still and orient to the present moment.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• For pieces of wood that are long and slender, such as a 2 by 12, orient the lumber with its edge against the force.
  — Popular Mechanics Editors, Popular Mechanics, 17 June 2016
• Each uses the sound of the city to orient and steady himself, finding peace in its tumult.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2019
• Vertically orient the lens inside the phone, and use a periscope-like prism to let in light.
  — Popular Science, 3 Dec. 2019
• The city, once the pearl of the orient, was totally destroyed – shelling and street-to-street fighting left little standing.
  — Fox News, 5 Mar. 2020
• But there was no particular pressure to change stuff or orient it one way or the other,’’ Hertzberg said.
  — Mike Stobbe, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• But, to really change how people orient to others takes a long time.
  — Katherine Nails, Philly.com, 10 July 2018
• The builder, which caters to people who want a new home on acreage, maintains a one-stop design studio to customize its house plans and orient windows to capture the best views.
  — Jeastman, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
• The idea was to re-orient research toward local priorities—sea ice high among them.
  — Matthew Halliday/undark, Popular Science, 29 May 2020
• Across the country, and in many parts of the globe, those who did not have to be on-site somewhere used their extra time without the commute and travel to re-orient, re-engage, and re-focus on themselves.
  — David Rock, Forbes, 2 June 2021
• Hoping to orient jurors, prosecutors called to the stand an expert in extremism, who offered a primer on both Antifa and the Proud Boys.
  — Colin Moynihan, New York Times, 8 Aug. 2019
• Some cities offer guidance to orient travelers to their creative sides.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• Just move with an alert and curious demeanor, find trusted locals to orient and guide you, when appropriate, and the city will respond in kind.
  — Daniel Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2023
• This generates what Apple calls a world map, which can be used to position and orient objects, apply lighting and shadows to them, and much more.
  — Samuel Axon, Ars Technica, 16 June 2018
• There could also be substantial costs for automakers to re-orient supply chains to comply with Trump’s rules-of-origin changes.
  — Josh Wingrove, Bloomberg.com, 27 Oct. 2017
• It’s time we re-orient goals or OKRs to align with this new thinking around best people practices and to create an aligned sense of purpose across the entire organization.
  — Beth Thornton, Forbes, 21 June 2021
• Knowing buildings are there isn't critical, but showing them in outline helps orient passengers in the world.
  — Mark Bergen, Bloomberg.com, 16 May 2017
• Staff members use adjectives rather than titles to orient readers.
  — Erin Geiger Smith, WSJ, 10 July 2017
• With these tools in hand, orient yourself by finding a familiar constellation overhead and settle down for your search.
  — Phil Plait, Scientific American, 28 July 2023
• Denali State Park is sometimes confused with the national park of the same name, so a stop at the impressive interpretive center and day-use area helps orient visitors.
  — Erin Kirkland, Alaska Dispatch News, 4 July 2017
• If fuel can't power the thrusters that make sure both probes orient their antennae toward Earth, engineers wouldn't be able to receive data or communicate with the probes.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 29 Jan. 2020
• Back-to-school nights are meant to welcome and orient families to their kids’ schools, giving parents a chance to meet their kids’ teachers, and schools the opportunity to communicate their plans for the upcoming year.
  — Alia Wong, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2019
• Wind and solar patterns were analyzed to perfectly orient different elements of the home, such as lining up the solar panels set upon the garage.
  — Patrick Sisson, Curbed, 13 Mar. 2018
• Even for novices, the series does lightning-quick Cliffs Notes to orient newcomers into this particular thread of the overarching story.
  — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 22 Aug. 2023
• If grown outside the uterus, the embryo cells don't receive essential signals from their environment that would help orient and guide their development.
  — Philip Ball, Scientific American, 18 Apr. 2023
• During the following hour or two, the spacecraft will deploy its two cross-shaped solar-power arrays, orient itself with regards to the sun and establish contact with mission controllers on Earth.
  — Meghan Bartels, Scientific American, 13 Oct. 2023
• In the old store, some ceilings and walls are being removed to accommodate several indoor exhibits and information stations that will help orient visitors to the park.
  — Jennifer Conn, Akron Reporter, cleveland.com, 8 Jan. 2018
• An engineer by background, Neri has been trying to re-orient HPE on engineering and innovation.
  — Susie Gharib, Fortune, 2 Oct. 2019

Last Updated: 3 May 2024