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How to use the word Orient in a Sentence?

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When Robert [King] tells you that he gets disoriented physically, I can tell him that people who are chronically depressed have a shrunken hippocampus, and that that affects your ability to orient in space, in 3D.

Huda Akil

Found on CNN
1 year ago

The risk went from something that we hadn’t really dealt with specifically like this before in our lifetimes – we hadn't quite had an illness this infectious and this possible to cause serious illness – to something that does look more like the flu. The flu of course can still be dangerous … but we don't orient our lives around the flu.

Chris Hayes

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

I'm there to just whisper in her ear,' It's on your left, it's on your right' to guide her and take care of her, i don't have anything to do with the pool, that's all her and the coaches, but they really have to have staff that knows how to orient and take care of these kids.

Maria Meyers

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Spiders have very keen vibrational sensors, they use vibrations as a way to orient themselves, to communicate with other spiders and so the idea of thinking literally like a spider would experience the world was something that was very obvious to us as spider material scientists.

Markus Buehler

Found on CNN
3 years ago

( The British also) had this conception that the' Orient,' the non-Western subjects, were overly erotic and over-sexed, and that's the reason why they were worried young colonial officers going abroad would be corrupted by those sexual acts.

Lucas Mendos

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It’s important to recognize that there’s nothing mystical about the pineal and parapineal organs, they can sense light and play a role in the endocrine system. However, some of the abilities conferred by the pineal are really quite extraordinary. For instance, some lower vertebrates can sense the polarization of light with the third eye and use this to orient themselves geographically.

Krister Smith

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

This diverse committee of activists provides grassroots education and generates political pressure needed to re-orient US policy toward a just peace in the Middle East.

Peace Council

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

What is also significant is that Warehouse Workers Resource Center applies to temp workers as well as direct employers. The complaint made very clear that California Cartage and Orient Tally violated the rights of both workers.

Celene Perez

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The key for (us in) China is to move fast, if we launch in the U.S. and then it gets copied in China, we'll be behind. So we're starting to orient some of our innovation at China first.

Chief Executive Travis Kalanick

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We need to reinforce our foundations; streamline our business; strengthen our financial position; and re-orient the bank for better returns on our capital, our capital strength is a key priority. Capital strength is a competitive advantage, especially in tough economic times. We are reviewing all aspects of our capital strength as part of our broader business review.

Bill Winters

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

Of all that Orient lands can vaunt, of marvels with our own competing, the strangest is the Haschish plant, and what will follow on its eating.

John Greenleaf Whittier

added by anonymous
10 years ago

A peek inside the city's many nightspots reveals a Shangri-La-di-da of tiny Shanghai socialites in even tinier outfits dancing provocatively with well-to-do Westerners. But while such sights may draw gasps from some people, the truth is that this kind of thing is nothing new for Shanghai, the Orient's original opium-den of iniquity.

Tom Carter

added by anonymous
12 years ago

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