In a sentence
Six example sentences with oriented, each labelled with its topic.
Every classroom is oriented toward the courtyard, so the afternoon glare falls on the corridor instead of the desks.
Architecture
The whole team is oriented around one weekly number, and anything that does not move it gets dropped on Monday.
Startups
The camera stays oriented on the empty doorway for a full minute, and the tension comes entirely from what never appears.
Movies
Solar panels oriented due south catch the most light in this valley, though a slight westward tilt helps in winter.
Environment
Hold the camera oriented vertically for the waterfall, since the height of the fall matters more than its width.
Photography
Iron crystals in the cooling lava froze oriented toward magnetic north, a compass record that geologists still read.
Science
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