How to Use oriented in a Sentence

oriented

adjective

• The audience was academically oriented.
• To do this, the probe fires its thrusters more than a dozen times a day to stay oriented.
  — Shannon Stirone, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• These datasets tend to be western, male oriented and ethnically white.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Overall spread is expected to remain oriented to the north and northeast.
  — Ca Wildfire Bot, Sacbee.com, 11 Sep. 2025
• This category seems to be slightly more oriented towards tracks by artists who write and perform their own works.
  — Billboard Japan, Billboard, 3 Apr. 2025
• One of the problems that India has is its politics are still very oriented to the villages.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 4 Aug. 2018
• There is an appealing earthy element as well, though the wine remains oriented toward its fruit.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• Some are more oriented toward improving the optics of the business prior to sale.
  — David W. McCombie Iii, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• Jerami Grant is very much a modern combo forward, and his game is much more oriented around the perimeter on both sides of the ball.
  — Alex Kirschenbaum, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Dec. 2025
• Most of the population in this part of the country speaks Ukrainian and is more oriented to the West.
  — Anton Grushetskyi, Foreign Affairs, 30 Dec. 2024
• All of our drug policies must remain oriented toward discouraging drug use.
  — Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
• Even what a new employee might feel on their very first day — welcomed, oriented, and inspired, or lost in a maze of unfamiliar faces and spaces.
  — Emma Burleigh, Fortune, 3 Sep. 2025
• Its research projects are oriented toward mitigating the impact of fossil fuels, and may take years to gain traction.
  — Bradley Olson, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• In addition, an older adult’s goals might be more oriented around quality of life, like living with less pain or being able to walk without a walker.
  — Alissa S. Chen, STAT, 1 July 2024
• The themes in it are very family oriented — just to speak to some of the larger themes that families go through — families that have single parents and things like that.
  — Fatema Etemadi, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
• Since the flames consumed much of Lahaina, locals have feared a rebuilt town could become even more oriented toward wealthy visitors.
  — CBS News, 19 Aug. 2023
• Grip remained strong even under the higher loads allowed by the track, despite its tires being deliberately more oriented for road use.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 22 June 2021
• Since the flames consumed much of Lahaina more than a week ago, locals have feared a rebuilt town could become even more oriented toward wealthy visitors.
  — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• We were steeped in the arts, passionate about education, and oriented toward service and social justice.
  — Ariana Makonnen, Town & Country, 20 June 2019
• His approach is extremely pull‑air oriented, truly leaning into pulling fly balls, which drove his power spike in Anaheim.
  — Derek Vanriper, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2026
• The goal isn’t automation for its own sake, but continuity—helping families stay oriented even when routines shift.
  — Jason Phillips, USA Today, 20 Feb. 2026
• Darnold will head an offense that will be much more run oriented and also lacking receiving weapons other than Jaxson Smith-Njigba.
  — Mike Fore, Forbes.com, 25 Aug. 2025
• In recent years, Google's PageRank has become more human-friendly and less oriented toward keywords alone.
  — Amine Rahal, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• Societies that score low, such as Denmark, tend to be more oriented toward having a high quality of life, having meaningful work and caring for others.
  — Marie Helweg-Larsen, The Conversation, 4 Dec. 2020
• There are many pillows out there that purport to be the best choice for side sleepers, but some are more oriented towards all types of sleepers and don’t take into account the extra pressure relief that folks who sleep on their sides need.
  — Korin Miller, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• The navigator’s information is organized not as distance, speed, and bearing per se but subjectively, as a canoe at rest in the ocean and an oriented world shifting around them.
  — Damion Searls, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019
• The Leopard 2’s stabilization system allows the main gun to remain oriented against a target even while the tank is maneuvering over rough terrain.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2023
• Coach Tinkle is obviously Tres’ dad, and Ethan and coach Thompson, very family oriented.
  — oregonlive, 22 Oct. 2019
• If search reliability drives a beat, update evergreen explainers and refine the internal links that help readers stay oriented.
  — Malana Vantyler, Ascend Agency, 6 Nov. 2025
• As someone who isn’t very oriented toward fashion, did the way that Westwood could be so playful with fashion — and at times people might describe her as antifashion — particularly speak to you?
  — Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2022