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McGinley’s recent imagery, exhibited for the first time at the Marlborough show, is his most compositional work yet, orientating his youthful bodies in the flood of colour and light that nature provides in full bloom.

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2020

Phobos was just rising in the west, and orientating herself by this tiny moon she struck out in a north-easterly direction, seeking a favorable current to carry her toward Tarog.

From The Martian Cabal by Starzl, Roman Frederick

So, orientating once more like a fragile tendril, he reached again for the banister rail, and got it.

From Aaron's Rod by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

"Christopher Mead, Assistant Undersecretary for External Affairs," the assistant said, orientating himself.

From Citadel by Dongen, H. R. van

It therefore assists us in properly orientating ourselves to read another treatise from the greatest mathematician of antiquity that sets clearly before us his indebtedness to the mechanical applications of his subject.

From Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes by Archimedes