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Example sentences for: bearings

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A good place to get your bearings on the suburbs of the city is from the rooftop bar of the lavish hotel Cubanacán Santiago, 3 km (almost 2 miles) east of the city’s center.
Not long ago a newspaper column (in the New Orleans Times-Picayune ) about fishing rods contained the following sentence: "Nothing has been overhyped more in recent years than the value of ball bearings in reel construction."
The first is devoted entirely to Tokyo, where you’re likely to begin your trip, get your bearings, and become acquainted with modern Japan.
Bay Tours are very popular in every coastal destination from Puerto Vallarta down to Huatulco, and are also an excellent way to get your bearings, from the vantage point of the waters offshore.
A mailman stops me in the street--I'm not making this up--to expound his own deduction from Philip Roth's tale of family calamity, to wit, that without a clear sense of God, modern Americans are doomed to lose their bearings and society will go to hell.