Example sentences for: circumnavigation

How can you use “circumnavigation” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Winter is around-the-world balloon season--it's when the jet stream runs consistently west to east--so the last few weeks have witnessed, and the next few weeks will witness, an orgy of circumnavigation attempts.

  • João Gonçalves Zarco, sailing in the service of Prince Henry, made the first of many famous Portuguese discoveries, which would culminate a century later in Magellan’s historic circumnavigation of the globe.

  • Will a successful circumnavigation usher in an era of commercial balloon airlines?

  • Balloon experts give Branson, Piccard, or Rutan decent odds to complete the circumnavigation, eventually: All three have pressurized gondolas that allow them to travel fast through the high jet stream.

  • A more pleasant story was the first successful circumnavigation of the world by two men in a balloon, the Breitling Orbiter 3. Their achievement was generally received with enthusiasm--the Times of London said mankind should rejoice and El País of Madrid that it had been the world's last great adventure--but there were also dissenting voices.


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