orient

Example Sentences

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So, if anything—and this sounds funny to say about future teenagers—I might orient my kids toward more socializing and understanding how they relate to people in their own unique way.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026

It’s up to us to figure out how do we orient to our tools in ways that are going to give us their benefits without wearing us out.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2026

Beyond the distant shapes of buildings still standing inside Gaza City, there's almost nothing left to orient you here, or identify the neighbourhoods that once held tens of thousands of people.

From BBC • Nov. 5, 2025

This design allows patients to use both their natural peripheral vision and the new prosthetic central vision simultaneously, improving their ability to orient themselves and move around.

From Science Daily • Oct. 22, 2025

Indiana had to orient himself without a compass. panicky.

From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner