In a sentence
Six example sentences with directional, each labelled with its topic.
Engineers hung a directional microphone above the cellist so the room's echo stayed out of the recording.
Music
Biologists fit the turtle with a directional tag that reports whether she is heading north toward the nesting beach.
Environment
The coach painted directional arrows on the practice floor so guards learned exactly where to cut after each screen.
Basketball
A directional antenna on the roof points straight at the tower, pulling in a signal the small indoor aerial never found.
Technology
Directional signs at the junction were missing, so we followed the sun and reached the coast an hour late.
Travel
Directional light from one window gives the portrait its shadows, where a soft overhead lamp would flatten the face.
Photography
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