How to Use binnacle in a Sentence

binnacle

noun

• The dash is quite low in these cars, but the steering wheel’s position tends to impede line-of-sight to the binnacle.
  — Adam Ismail, The Drive, 18 Feb. 2026
• The instrument binnacle is mounted to and moves with the steering column.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 June 2022
• Ahead lies the configurable instrument screen, housed in a slender binnacle.
  — WIRED, 29 Mar. 2023
• Everything was soft to touch except the scratchy instrument binnacle.
  — Matthew MacConnell, Forbes.com, 21 May 2025
• There's even a conventional binnacle atop the main instrument display in front of the driver.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 14 Nov. 2022
• When deployed, that binnacle lowers, ramp style, toward the ground, releasing the robot.
  — Alexander Stoklosa, Car and Driver, 21 May 2019
• McLaren Powertrain controls are on the left side of the binnacle, handling settings are on the right.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
• Driver’s instrument binnacle, which offers a wide range of display options.
  — Mark Ewing, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025
• These include the steering wheel, the binnacle and its instrument cluster, the control panel, the key and key dock, the central console, and the seats.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2026
• The only real nod to the past inside the modern-looking cabin is the binnacle atop the dash with analog gauges for boost pressure, turbo rpm, and battery voltage.
  — Joey Capparella, Car and Driver, 16 Sep. 2020
• As for the steering wheel and binnacle, the latter is attached to the steering column to effortlessly match wheel positioning.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 25 May 2026
• There's a similarly sized digital gauge display in the binnacle, but that's likely reserved for fancier variants.
  — Andrew Krok, Car and Driver, 31 Jan. 2023
• Porsche’s configurable gauge cluster can display maps and navigation instructions in its right binnacle.
  — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 23 Sep. 2020
• The instrument cluster — a thin, curved LCD panel — replaces the usual gauge binnacle.
  — Tom Voelk, New York Times, 6 June 2018
• Ventilation and drive-mode buttons are grouped in a binnacle next to the gear selector, with other most functions controlled by the 10-inch touchscreen above.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 29 Oct. 2020
• In place of the separate infotainment screen, the instrument binnacle has been integrated into the display in a sleek statement piece.
  — Trinity Francis, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 2025
• Digital screens have also replaced most of the traditional analog dials that used to live in your average Porsche instrument binnacle.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 May 2018
• But mounting the camera on the steering column or underneath the dashboard binnacle isn't entirely ideal—to be monitored, the driver's face can't be obstructed by the steering wheel.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 27 Apr. 2023
• Chassis and power-train modes are selected by rocker switches within fingertip reach on the instrument binnacle, leaving the steering wheel pleasingly bereft of buttons.
  — Tim Pitt, Robb Report, 2 July 2024
• As intuitive, and equally arresting visually, is the steering wheel and binnacle configuration.
  — Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 9 Feb. 2026
• Again, this remains my favorite implementation of a digital instrument display—so far only Audi seems to be thinking outside of the rectangular box to fill the entire binnacle.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 7 Dec. 2018
• The instrument binnacle has been brought over from the (cheaper, hybrid) McLaren Artura, relocating the handling and powertrain controls in the process.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, Ars Technica, 16 Nov. 2023
• The main instrument binnacle is fixed to the steering column and moves with it; it’s made up of two OLED displays sandwiched together, with the second one visible through circular cutouts to create dials.
  — Jonathan M. Gitlin, ArsTechnica, 26 May 2026