How to Use orientation in a Sentence

orientation

noun
  • New students need to go through a short orientation before they begin classes.
  • These materials are used for the orientation of new employees.
  • Her later works were more introspective in orientation.
  • They identified as bisexual in orientation.
  • The organization has a decidedly conservative orientation.
  • If so, lay the top of the sheet to the correct orientation of your bed.
    — Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 10 Sep. 2023
  • Those two orientations were just an amazing kind of sauce to be cooked in.
    — Fortune Editors, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2024
  • Crimo flips the phone’s orientation to reveal his face at the end of the video.
    — Safia Samee Ali, NBC News, 5 July 2022
  • The law firm orientation said slacks, khakis, blazers, and a nice shirt would be fine.
    — Vogue, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The same verbs apply, even if the worker is a line of code rather than a new face at orientation.
    — Josh Scriven, Forbes.com, 11 July 2025
  • After each turn, a rotor ends up in the same orientation.
    — Ameya Paleja, Interesting Engineering, 6 Apr. 2026
  • In its anti-pull orientation, the leash can’t get stuck under your dog’s legs.
    — Camryn Rabideau, Peoplemag, 16 Jan. 2024
  • The back-to-school rush is marked by supply lists, orientation days and fresh first-day outfits.
    — Brian Castrucci, Forbes.com, 3 Sep. 2025
  • These aren’t the old times of multi-day orientation and fieldwork.
    — Paul Dehner Jr, New York Times, 8 May 2026
  • The north and east compass arrows show the orientation of the image on the sky.
    — Julia Musto, Fox News, 17 Dec. 2022
  • They can be influenced by structures like the orientation of your house to the sun.
    — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2022
  • Johns said the ancients used them to determine the orientation of the mounds and to find true north.
    — Frank Vaisvilas, Journal Sentinel, 17 Dec. 2024
  • The orientation will allow the cells to follow the sun’s east to west movement across the sky.
    — Karl Schneider, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Feb. 2023
  • We were taken to an orientation session and then split into small groups.
    — Craig Stanford, Big Think, 7 May 2026
  • Because the scene is set outside, the sun cannot move even when the world’s entire orientation shifts.
    — Andrew R. Chow, Time, 15 June 2021
  • My lunch, post-orientation, was served inside.
    — Amy Drew Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 30 Mar. 2026
  • In the Instagram video, the footage is cropped and the orientation is flipped.
    — Eleanor McCrary, USA TODAY, 11 Feb. 2023
  • Place cloves with the pointed end up and flat tip down, which is the same orientation they are positioned in on the bulb.
    — Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 11 Oct. 2024
  • That allowed Hekker to tinker with the orientation of the ball.
    — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Oct. 2020
  • When the orientation began, the host led us through the familiar rules.
    — New York Times, 31 Mar. 2021
  • The device can also count the number of people in the room and their height and orientation.
    — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 7 July 2022
  • The orientation of the house places all the living spaces to the north side to allow for cooler rooms.
    — Dallas News, 31 July 2022
  • The key differences are the addition of the nail weight and the orientation of the hook.
    — Shaye Baker, Field & Stream, 16 May 2024
  • The orientation of the house around the courtyard is really nice.
    — Jenny Xie, Curbed, 11 Nov. 2021
  • The last phase of the extensive training is a weeklong orientation of the dog at the client’s home.
    — oregonlive, 13 Nov. 2022

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