orientate
verb (used with or without object)
orientated
Example Sentences
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"It's the way that they do things - family orientated."
From BBC ● Mar. 3, 2025
The properties of clay and claystone crucially depend on how the tiny sediment particles are orientated.
From Science Daily ● Dec. 2, 2024
Their assumption - which seems to be borne out by the Sora-Q image - is that the main spacecraft is orientated in a way that prevents the solar cells from seeing the Sun.
From BBC ● Jan. 25, 2024
Streets are narrow and orientated to channel the typically northwestern breeze.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 8, 2023
Western music, being more orientated towards harmony than its non-Western counterparts, gradually formed hierarchies among the twelve notes, so that the listener's ears latched on to a 'home' in the sound.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
