How to Use orient in a Sentence

orient

1 of 3 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.
• Some are very newsy, facts-oriented and straight-faced.
  — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 15 Jan. 2026
• There is a short guide to orient you to the map and some of its functions.
  — Shirley MacFarland, cleveland, 6 Jan. 2023
• Print a trail map as a backup, and use the compass to orient your map.
  — Ashley Mateo, Health.com, 27 May 2021
• Every room is oriented to take in the view.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 5 Aug. 2025
• But a large share of this year’s fest events are theater oriented.
  — Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2023
• Instead, orient them around growth.
  — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 22 Aug. 2025
• Having good taste might orient you toward what’s good.
  — Joshua Rothman, New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2026
• To help further orient him, the center of the lake was clearly marked by a buoy.
  — Quanta Magazine, 29 June 2021
• Brandt says that the Danes orient their entire culture around hygge.
  — Erica Jackson Curran, Parents, 11 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Agents are more big-picture and goal-oriented, and your thinking should be too.
  — Bernard Marr, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
• And that’s when the offense opened up and became more pass-oriented.
  — Seth Emerson, New York Times, 7 Oct. 2025
• So everyone’s very oriented as to what this is.
  — Lynette Rice, Deadline, 2 Sep. 2025
• We are taught to orient a huge chunk of our existence around becoming a bride.
  — The Foretold Team, Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2023
• Seconds spent orienting when a ball is hit to the outfield can lead to a misread or poor jump.
  — Charlotte Varnes, New York Times, 2 Feb. 2026
• Inside, get oriented with a giant aerial map of the city streets and canals.
  — Sunshine Flint, Travel + Leisure, 25 Nov. 2023
• The same goes for orienting the couch at the right distance and viewing angle.
  — Jacob Feldman, Sportico.com, 12 June 2026
• 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
• Simply orient yourself to put some sort of screen between that bright moon and your vantage point.
  — Eric MacK, Forbes, 11 Aug. 2022
• Was there anything specific that helped orient you around who Sharon is now?
  — Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Apr. 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
• The types of bonds refer to how certain parts of the molecules are oriented.
  — Julie Pollock, The Conversation, 1 May 2026
• Moore said the event has to move on from being gang-oriented to a family friendly event.
  — Kamal Morgan, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 8 June 2026
• But wanted to keep it still badass and crime oriented, but still have the heart of a redemption story.
  — Brayden Garcia, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 16 Apr. 2026
• Or maybe twenty years is enough time to orient oneself to the band’s unique cosmology.
  — Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker, 31 Jan. 2022
• But gooning is more goal-oriented and more communal.
  — Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
• He's got a very meticulous mind, very detail oriented.
  — Belinda Luscombe, Time, 29 Apr. 2026

orient

2 of 3 noun

• Teach people to step back and observe, orient, decide, then act.
  — Andrew Olsen, Forbes, 5 May 2021
• Drawings are never easy to present to the public, but the video orients visitors who know the fresco.
  — Cammy Brothers, WSJ, 14 June 2019
• The way our brain orients to making music on a guitar is just different to a keyboard layout.
  — Dan Kopf, Quartz, 30 Jan. 2020
• It can be mounted landscape or portrait, and the display auto-orients itself.
  — Joe Salas may 17, New Atlas, 17 May 2026
• The tour begins in the old village to orient visitors before whipping through the more contemporary parts of town.
  — Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 14 Apr. 2026
• The nature tours orient kids and adults to flora and fauna of the Lowcountry while educating them about conservation.
  — Sucheta Rawal, Travel + Leisure, 26 Feb. 2021
• Movement and animation are used to orient, not to accelerate anxiety.
  — Goran Paun, Forbes.com, 5 Mar. 2026
• And couples who can make that distinction, who can sit with an uncomfortable truth and orient toward it together rather than away from it, tend to come out the other side considerably closer.
  — Mark Travers, Forbes.com, 10 May 2026
• This onboard system allows the MAV to recover from rapid spins and orient itself correctly after being tossed.
  — Sujita Sinha, Interesting Engineering, 15 Sep. 2025
• Day-to-day politics is of intrinsic interest for us political animals, and the issues of the day orient much or most of our political reflection.
  — Daniel J. Mahoney, National Review, 28 Dec. 2020
• Miljure recruits, orients and manages volunteers and community organizations who work to help brighten patients’ days.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 18 Dec. 2019
• High-performing wineries orient outward — toward customers, relationships and brand building.
  — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• The woman, Janie Marshall, grabbed onto another patient’s IV pole to regain her balance and orient herself, the police said.
  — New York Times, 8 Apr. 2020
• The culture of the political press orients individual practitioners toward their professional peers, rather than towards the users, or even towards the news.
  — Ezra Klein, Vox, 22 Oct. 2018
• Lower-performing wineries orient inward — toward costs, operational fixes and tasting room renovations.
  — Michelle Williams, Forbes.com, 23 June 2026
• Together, these capabilities enable the robotic head to detect presence, identify the direction of sound, orient toward the source, and analyze visual input from onboard cameras.
  — Atharva Gosavi, Interesting Engineering, 26 Nov. 2025
• For example, kites need to be designed symmetrically to successfully catch the wind, which is often blowing horizontally, Choi said, adding that sometimes people don’t attach a kite’s tail properly, not realizing the tail helps the kite orient itself.
  — Jaclyn Cosgrove, Los Angeles Times, 3 May 2026
• Following up on the Einstein Probe’s data, NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory’s X-ray instrument also provided more accurate location information to help orient telescopes in the right direction.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 22 Sep. 2025

orient

3 of 3 adjective

• Take some time each day to be still and orient to the present moment.
  — Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2023
• The bats swirl, orient, and then form a river of life in the sky.
  — National Geographic, 21 June 2019
• The robot needs to be able to re-orient / balance in the air.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 28 June 2021
• 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
• But, to really change how people orient to others takes a long time.
  — Katherine Nails, Philly.com, 10 July 2018
• 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
• 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
• Some cities offer guidance to orient travelers to their creative sides.
  — New York Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• The idea was to re-orient research toward local priorities—sea ice high among them.
  — Matthew Halliday/undark, Popular Science, 29 May 2020
• The orient phase is often the bottleneck where AI can add the most value.
  — Brian Chess, Forbes.com, 21 Jan. 2026
• 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
• Staff members use adjectives rather than titles to orient readers.
  — Erin Geiger Smith, WSJ, 10 July 2017
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Articles come out every week telling us that young people seek experiences, orient toward value products, and demand instant connection.
  — Samuel Engel, Fortune, 12 Dec. 2017
• 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
• 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
• This involves making and installing racking or framing systems and incorporating innovations like trackers that orient toward the sun.
  — The Editorial Board, WSJ, 15 Sep. 2017
• 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
• 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