How to Use circumnavigate in a Sentence

circumnavigate

verb
  • The ship circumnavigated the world.
  • Or rent a bike for free and cycle the Loop trail that circumnavigates the park.
    — Evie Carrick, Travel + Leisure, 27 July 2023
  • The half-mile trail that circumnavigates the small island leads to its beaches.
    — Graham Averill, Outside Online, 21 Jan. 2025
  • Portable fire pits are an easy way to circumnavigate having to build a fire from scratch.
    — Mike Richard, menshealth.com, 11 May 2023
  • Mock is the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world alone.
    — Lucia Cheng, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
  • Over a five-lap race, each driver must circumnavigate the inner oval four times and the outer once.
    — J. George Gorant, Robb Report, 9 May 2024
  • On one outdoor deck was a running track that circumnavigated the ship.
    — Michael Goldstein, Forbes, 11 Oct. 2024
  • That’s fast enough to circumnavigate the Earth in about 45 minutes.
    — Popular Mechanics, 8 Sep. 2023
  • Now, Orion is on a 25-and-a-half day journey to circumnavigate the moon.
    — Jackie Wattles, CNN, 21 Nov. 2022
  • If completed, their trip would’ve clinched Earhart as the first female pilot to circumnavigate the world.
    — Sam Walters, Discover Magazine, 1 Feb. 2024
  • His plan is to be the first person to circumnavigate the globe from east to west and pole to pole without the help of motors, sails, or solar energy.
    — The Editors, Outside Online, 17 Nov. 2014
  • Most follow existing gravel, dirt, or paved paths in the metro area, which have been strung together to circumnavigate the city.
    — Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 20 May 2024
  • On their most grueling tour, the Beatles circumnavigate the globe in a week.
    — Washington Post, 2 July 2020
  • That is way too much submarine for Taiwan, which doesn't need large ships with the ability to circumnavigate the globe.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 21 Mar. 2017
  • Both men have circumnavigated the globe solo.
    — Pete Muntean, CNN Money, 6 Aug. 2025
  • First, a screen pass to Mikey Matthews on the right side enabled him to circumnavigate the defense and sprint to a 40-yard gain.
    — Eric Walden, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Sep. 2023
  • Steve Bowen and the Ocean Race crew, circumnavigating the globe in their different ways, have a wide choice of forebears.
    — Cullen Murphy, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2024
  • Pick a beach club and lounge for the day on Playa Norte, or rent a golf cart to circumnavigate the island and discover its breathtaking vistas.
    — Meagan Drillinger, Travel + Leisure, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Fiennes was the first to circumnavigate the world from pole to pole, crossed the Antarctic on foot, broke countless world records and discovered a lost city in Arabia.
    — Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 26 Aug. 2022
  • By the 1980s, however, ships grew large and fast enough to circumnavigate the global in a cost-efficient manner.
    — Daniel Tenreiro, National Review, 25 Mar. 2021
  • John Hurlbut, who circumnavigated the world at the age of 29, before settling down in Wethersfield.
    — Joan Hunt, Courant Community, 21 Dec. 2017
  • While the ship circumnavigated the islands of Japan, our concierge arranged a private meeting with a survivor of the Nagasaki bomb.
    — Gillian Telling, People.com, 26 Apr. 2025
  • In the late sixties, a French sailor named Bernard Moitessier entered a race to circumnavigate the world on a yacht, solo, with no outside assistance.
    — Ben Taub, The New Yorker, 3 Oct. 2022
  • But these kinds of adventures are just par for the course—if that course was circumnavigating the globe in a hot air balloon—for members of The Explorer’s Club.
    — Georgia Frances King, Quartz, 14 Aug. 2019
  • Secrets of the Dead Ferdinand Magellan and his crew set sail to gain control of the global spice trade and become the first to circumnavigate the earth.
    — Ed Stockly, Los Angeles Times, 19 Oct. 2021
  • Few drive the entire Ring Road, the highway that circumnavigates the island, and even fewer make their way to the interior, known as the Highlands.
    — Susmita Baral, Travel + Leisure, 20 May 2024
  • Currently, the youngest female pilot to solo circumnavigate the globe in a single-engine plane is Shaesta Waiz, who was 30 years old at the time.
    — Rebecca Cairns, CNN, 9 Aug. 2021
  • Over the course of three days in June, Argentinian polo player Nacho Figueras circumnavigated the globe—all for the sake of his sport.
    — Lindsay Silberman, Town & Country, 14 June 2017
  • Lawson, a 41-year-old Baltimore native, was aiming to take off this month from Hawaii to solo-circumnavigate the world in about 70 days.
    — Hayes Gardner, Baltimore Sun, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Ko Samui is the third-largest island in the country but remains small enough to be circumnavigated in just a couple of hours by motorbike or car, making neighboring locations easy to access.
    — Rafa Sales Ross, Variety, 26 Nov. 2025

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