How to Use oriented in a Sentence

oriented

adjective

• The audience was academically oriented.
• To do this, the probe fires its thrusters more than a dozen times a day to stay oriented.
  — Shannon Stirone, New York Times, 10 Mar. 2020
• How did three-point oriented teams fare in the 2015 playoffs?
  — Dan Gartland, SI.com, 28 June 2017
• The story is similar for oriented strand board, used for walls, floors and roofs.
  — Ryan Dezember, WSJ, 17 Mar. 2021
• One of the problems that India has is its politics are still very oriented to the villages.
  — Recode Staff, Recode, 4 Aug. 2018
• Make sure the camera is steady and oriented horizontally. Performer(s) should be shown clearly in the center of the shot.
  — Marc Bona, cleveland, 22 Feb. 2022
• About three-quarters of the timber Erickson, the logger in Baudette, harvests goes to paper mills and the rest goes to make oriented strand board or cut lumber.
  — Jim Buchta, Star Tribune, 5 Sep. 2020
• Some are more oriented toward improving the optics of the business prior to sale.
  — David W. McCombie Iii, Forbes, 16 May 2022
• Six-year veteran Todd Davis and 2018 fourth-rounder Josey Jewell have sharpened their pass-defense acumen, but both are more oriented to stop the run.
  — Andy Benoit, SI.com, 19 Aug. 2019
• The themes in it are very family oriented — just to speak to some of the larger themes that families go through — families that have single parents and things like that.
  — Fatema Etemadi, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
• With that in mind, defensively oriented stocks -- companies with lots of cash and little debt -- could thrive.
  — Paul R. La Monica, CNN, 10 Nov. 2020
• These datasets tend to be western, male oriented and ethnically white.
  — The Physics Arxiv Blog, Discover Magazine, 11 Oct. 2022
• Since the flames consumed much of Lahaina more than a week ago, locals have feared a rebuilt town could become even more oriented toward wealthy visitors.
  — Time, 18 Aug. 2023
• These kinds of snafus are inevitable in the cable news–oriented cabinet that Trump has put together.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2018
• There is an appealing earthy element as well, though the wine remains oriented toward its fruit.
  — Washington Post, 5 Mar. 2021
• Isabel was very much a friend and family oriented person.
  — courant.com, 11 Jan. 2018
• Even in the primary visual cortex, the area far to the back of the brain where Hubel and Wiesel made their recordings, only a fraction of neurons actually fire when the animal looks at oriented bars.
  — WIRED, 3 Oct. 2022
• Mendez, of Crown Point, who said his daughter, Karina, 15, has also come out as bi, views the parade as a positive, family oriented event.
  — Michelle L. Quinn, Post-Tribune, 24 June 2018
• Today’s approach was significantly more oriented toward hitting the ball where it’s pitched and staying on the ball.
  — Brendan Kurie, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Apr. 2022
• Its research projects are oriented toward mitigating the impact of fossil fuels, and may take years to gain traction.
  — Bradley Olson, WSJ, 8 June 2018
• There are many pillows out there that purport to be the best choice for side sleepers, but some are more oriented towards all types of sleepers and don’t take into account the extra pressure relief that folks who sleep on their sides need.
  — Korin Miller, Forbes, 12 Mar. 2021
• But Baltimore’s new, analytically oriented regime convinced him to scrap his sinker and use a four-seam fastball high in the strike zone with a changeup and slider in the lower quadrants.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 14 July 2019
• In recent years, Google's PageRank has become more human-friendly and less oriented toward keywords alone.
  — Amine Rahal, Forbes, 1 June 2021
• In addition, major oil producers such as Exxon and Chevron Corp. are less oriented to trading, focusing more on meeting the needs of their own refineries.
  — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 24 Mar. 2018
• Grip remained strong even under the higher loads allowed by the track, despite its tires being deliberately more oriented for road use.
  — Mike Duff, Car and Driver, 22 June 2021
• The thin, vertically oriented headlamps and bar lights across the front and back provide plenty of illumination.
  — Will Egensteiner, Popular Mechanics, 29 Sep. 2021
• The Leopard 2’s stabilization system allows the main gun to remain oriented against a target even while the tank is maneuvering over rough terrain.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 26 Jan. 2023
• Also, try to give yourself a daily massage, since Pitta oriented people have a tendency to store the intensity in their neck and shoulders.
  — Alexandria Bordas, miamiherald, 4 Aug. 2017
• FB and G+ are oriented towards making a people-to-people connection.
  — Laura Grace Weldon, WIRED, 27 Dec. 2011
• We were steeped in the arts, passionate about education, and oriented toward service and social justice.
  — Ariana Makonnen, Town & Country, 20 June 2019

Last Updated: 7 Dec 2024