How to Use navigator in a Sentence

navigator

noun
  • The ship is equipped with a satellite navigator.
  • The crew includes a copilot and a navigator.
  • Would you be willing to act as navigator while I drive?
  • And learn to map the tides, the winds, the sea swells, as the navigators do?
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • About a dozen navigators, all locals, have been hired to guide victims through the process.
    — Megan Gleason, ProPublica, 17 July 2023
  • Samuel, the most reserved of the three, assumed the role of navigator.
    — Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, 8 July 2024
  • And this here,’ Leox said with a grin, ‘is our ship’s navigator, Geode.
    — David Bressan, Forbes, 4 May 2021
  • But for a nation of navigators, there is no course a team this talented cannot plot.
    — James Horncastle, New York Times, 10 June 2026
  • Both teams slipped back into the desert night, meeting the navigator at a rendezvous point.
    — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • And the point of the navigators isn't to run up huge enrollment numbers.
    — Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • Two people sit side-by-side in the cockpit, a driver and navigator.
    — Alan Berner, The Seattle Times, 16 Sep. 2017
  • Check the store navigator to find a local store open near you this April 12.
    — Corinne Sullivan and Maggie Panos, Woman's Day, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Check the store navigator to find a local store open near you this April 21.
    — Corinne Sullivan and Maggie Panos, Woman's Day, 21 Feb. 2023
  • The second oldest is being trained as a navigator, the third son as a poet.
    — Literary Hub, 21 Oct. 2025
  • The navigator does not need to see the horizon or know the local vertical.
    — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2021
  • That’s the quiet power of a nurse navigator.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2025
  • This is because the check-in devices did not isolate polling places by party like the navigator tablets.
    — Tracey McManus, Dallas Morning News, 5 Mar. 2026
  • Sometimes there are a lot of phone calls back and forth between the navigator and patient, sometimes not.
    — Molly Longman, refinery29.com, 18 Apr. 2022
  • Christian Braun has matured as a pick-and-roll navigator.
    — Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 7 Sep. 2025
  • The crew, consisting of the pilot and the navigator, both ejected from the plane.
    — Valerie Pavilonis, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • The pilot is aided by a navigator and by a third person who holds an antenna mast.
    — Gary Robbins, San Diego Union-Tribune, 24 Jan. 2026
  • That approach is exactly what nurse navigators are built for.
    — Lauryn Higgins, Flow Space, 27 Oct. 2025
  • Some missions require navigators in the crew as well, an Air Force fact sheet said.
    — Brad Lendon, CNN Money, 13 Mar. 2026
  • Killey’s nurse navigator was Stacey Webb, who was never more than a quick phone call away.
    — David Buice, Dallas News, 20 Dec. 2019
  • It is managed by navigators contracted by the city.
    — Camryn Dadey, Sacbee.com, 16 Mar. 2026
  • The navigator himself turned to the captain, seated on the port side of the pilothouse.
    — Annie Murphy Paul, Wired, 15 June 2021
  • The plane navigator spots Sheen and invites him to the cockpit, where the captain asks for a photo.
    — Michael Schneider, Variety, 10 Sep. 2025
  • Patient word of mouth or personal referrals are always a good way to find a navigator as well.
    — Cindy Krischer Goodman, Sun Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
  • That said, take a look at the best GPS navigators for travel below.
    — Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
  • Behind her, a young man, his dark hair short, the beginnings of a beard over his jaw, knelt on the decking behind the navigator’s seat.
    — Scott Gleeson, USA TODAY, 19 May 2022

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