How to Use waypoint in a Sentence

waypoint

noun
  • This place has been a waypoint for travelers for a long time.
    — Ned Rozell, Alaska Dispatch News, 22 July 2017
  • In a few days’ time, his friend was supposed to hike the trail to the waypoint and claim the prize.
    — Spencer Buell, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Sep. 2022
  • The winner is the person who got to all the waypoints in the worst vehicle.
    — Mark Phelan, Detroit Free Press, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Drop the icon and then customize your waypoint with a name and an emoji symbol.
    — Frederick Dreier, Outside Online, 23 Sep. 2022
  • The last thing to do was to choose traversable paths to waypoints chosen by the team.
    — Jacek Krywko, Ars Technica, 16 July 2018
  • In the process, human societies all seemed to travel through the same waypoints.
    — Charles King, Foreign Affairs, 24 Oct. 2023
  • Best of all, the Shade also acts as a waypoint if players ever fall off a branch and hit the ground.
    — Gieson Cacho, Mercury News, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Along the way, a series of waypoints have been plotted to avoid shipping lanes as much as possible.
    — Bill Monroe, OregonLive.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Planned waypoint flying is included too, a first for the Air series.
    — Jim Fisher, PCMAG, 25 July 2023
  • Malacca is also a waypoint for ships going elsewhere in Asia.
    — Julian Lee, Fortune, 11 Apr. 2026
  • Anand has compiled hundreds of such waypoints in his Buddha-trail database.
    — Paul Salopek, The New Yorker, 9 Aug. 2019
  • This small station could be used as a waypoint for astronauts going to and from the lunar surface.
    — Science, 9 Dec. 2020
  • The waypoint will always appear with the wind strength as a number and the wind direction as letters.
    — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The first waypoint was slightly more than 1,300 feet below the space station.
    — Washington Post, 17 Nov. 2020
  • As the film deploys a watery flow, language, spoken and visual, tends to create waypoints.
    — Cátia Rodrigues, Variety, 16 Aug. 2025
  • The have been referred to as lakeshore sentinels, offering waypoints on water and markers on land, and come in all shapes and sizes.
    — Frank Witsil, Detroit Free Press, 7 Aug. 2023
  • So many role-playing games spoonfeed you with compasses and waypoints and fourth-wall-breaking warnings.
    — Alex James Kane, Forbes.com, 22 May 2026
  • The current system is radar-based and requires planes to fly from one waypoint to the next rather than in a straight line to their destination.
    — John Wagner, Washington Post, 5 June 2017
  • Another colleague is then responsible for driving the load to the next waypoint, and so on.
    — The Economist, 30 Sep. 2017
  • The drone also has hyperlapse, slow-motion, and waypoint flight features for a variety of shots.
    — Shubham Yewale, PCMAG, 20 June 2024
  • Hikers need to photograph six specific waypoints and show these photos to the nature center staff at the end of the hike.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
  • Marlene wanted to believe Barb’s house was a waypoint on her return to Tulsa.
    — Heather Gillers, WSJ, 16 Nov. 2018
  • In this demo, we were tasked with breaking up two specific crimes and killing time between those by using spidey sense to toggle a litany of waypoints.
    — Sam MacHkovech, Ars Technica, 12 June 2018
  • At the same time, having a few waypoints, like Tucson or Abiquiu, is a counterbalance.
    — Aaron Gulley, Outside Online, 17 May 2018
  • This is just one of 200 nodes planted across the range in a tidy grid, each tracked with a GPS waypoint.
    — Lauren Steele, The Atlantic, 7 Feb. 2026
  • To complete the challenge, make seven photographs at specific waypoints on the trails.
    — The Indianapolis Star, 20 Mar. 2024
  • This Gateway could serve as waypoint for astronauts to live and do research, according to the space agency.
    — Loren Grush, The Verge, 3 Oct. 2018
  • The one glaring difference between those Broncos and these at the same six-game waypoint is the turnover department.
    — Nick Kosmider, New York Times, 17 Oct. 2025
  • That makes the Pacific Northwest coast a potential waypoint for lancetfish.
    — Mike Snider, USA Today, 26 Apr. 2025
  • This particular recipe is inspired by the menu of a local restaurant that serves as a popular waypoint for park visitors.
    — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 11 Mar. 2026

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