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?
  • 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
  • Check the store navigator to find a local store open near you this April 21.
    Taysha Murtaugh and Nicol Natale, Woman's Day, 11 Feb. 2019
  • Check the store navigator to find a local store open near you this April 12.
    Nicol Natale, Woman's Day, 7 Apr. 2020
  • The crew, consisting of the pilot and the navigator, both ejected from the plane.
    Valerie Pavilonis, USA TODAY, 10 May 2022
  • The last person to do so was in the 1990s who worked as a navigator, according to NOAA records.
    Joe Mario Pedersen, orlandosentinel.com, 28 Aug. 2020
  • With the Dutch ship’s captain too ill to move, the crew sent English navigator William Adams in his place.
    Meilan Solly, Smithsonian Magazine, 27 Feb. 2024
  • And the point of the navigators isn't to run up huge enrollment numbers.
    Colby Itkowitz, Washington Post, 12 July 2018
  • Earhart embarked on her quest to fly around the world in the summer of 1937 with her navigator, Fred Noonan.
    Praveena Somasundaram, Washington Post, 31 Jan. 2024
  • The nipples on the tetas of the nanny Fidelia were the navigator, the pathfinder, the salvation of all those who lost their way.
    Lawrence Jackson, Harper's Magazine, 10 July 2023
  • About a dozen navigators, all locals, have been hired to guide victims through the process.
    Megan Gleason, ProPublica, 17 July 2023
  • The navigator himself turned to the captain, seated on the port side of the pilothouse.
    Annie Murphy Paul, Wired, 15 June 2021
  • This is a huge cut to navigator programs across the country.
    Robert Pear, New York Times, 10 July 2018
  • That said, take a look at the best GPS navigators for travel below.
    Joel Balsam, Travel + Leisure, 8 Jan. 2024
  • The navigator does not need to see the horizon or know the local vertical.
    David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 25 Apr. 2021
  • Both teams slipped back into the desert night, meeting the navigator at a rendezvous point.
    Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 6 Jan. 2024
  • The plane crashed and Kick was instantly killed, along with Peter, the pilot and a navigator.
    Tierney McAfee, Peoplemag, 19 Nov. 2022
  • Both the pilot and the navigator managed to eject safely.
    Sean Gallagher, Ars Technica, 18 Sep. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • The flat boat has four padded rows with backs, and Legoland will cap the capacity at 11 people — only 8 of them adults — plus the navigator.
    Dewayne Bevil, Orlando Sentinel, 11 Jan. 2023
  • One of his own sons, William, served as a navigator on the Industry, and his son-in-law Pardon Cook was one of the ship’s officers.
    Nora McGreevy, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Apr. 2022
  • Killey’s nurse navigator was Stacey Webb, who was never more than a quick phone call away.
    David Buice, Dallas News, 20 Dec. 2019
  • In 1937, Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan attempted to fly around the world.
    Jane Recker, Smithsonian Magazine, 13 July 2022
  • Somewhere along the way, the Electra became too heavy and short on fuel, and the pilot and her navigator lost sight of the tiny, two-and-a-half-square-mile island in the middle of the ocean.
    Andrew Daniels, Popular Mechanics, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Older pilots and navigators have come out of retirement to fill the jets’ cockpits.
    David Axe, Forbes, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The Great Lakes map would provide fuller images of bottom features that have changed in the last 50 years due to erosion and shifting sands, giving navigators new depth findings that would improve shipping safety, Murawski said.
    CBS News, 2 Oct. 2024

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