circumnavigate
verb (used with object)
to sail or fly around; make the circuit of by navigation.
circumnavigates
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present tense formof circumnavigate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The L.E.D. screen—sixty feet long and almost two stories tall—flashes with ads for Broadway plays, beer, and children’s movies, as the boat circumnavigates lower Manhattan.
From The New Yorker ● Sep. 18, 2019
The open-air expedition circumnavigates the island’s undeveloped coastline — a mini safari in the middle of the Pacific.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2019
The course circumnavigates the Ashland watershed between Mount Ashland and the park, accumulating 7,200 feet of elevation change, mostly on dirt roads and trails.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 31, 2017
Director Bong Joon-ho took a premise with Gallic existentialist precision – a 1,001-car train organised hierarchically from poor to rich that endlessly circumnavigates a frozen Earth – and amped it up with South Korean humour.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 2, 2017
Francis Drake circumnavigates the globe, and explores the west coast of North America.
From The Story of Geographical Discovery How the World Became Known by Joseph Jacobs
