Example sentences for: compass

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

  • Each of the eight faces corresponds to a cardinal point on the compass and is decorated with an ornate frieze depicting the wind blowing from that direction.

  • In its (reefered) EgyptAir story, the Post notes that the data recorder reveals no abrupt movements and that the plane maintained its compass setting during the dive, which occurred eight seconds after the autopilot shut off.

  • Maybe I'll continue to breeze through Fodor's, Compass, and Frommer's in airport bookstores.

  • Lacking heroes, villains, and a moral compass, the first two-thirds of the film leaves you adrift, which means that Hanson and his co-writer, Brian Helgeland ( Conspiracy Theory ) have to absorb you with the force of their storytelling.

  • ) Similarly, lip salve is insincere flattery, though it may be enjoyed by the recipient nonetheless as a form of ear candy . Lip , with its satisfying mouthfeel (to use the jargon of the food-service industry) and its still-obvious link to an elemental root (the Indo-European leb , with the connotation ""), has formed numerous slang combinations whose meanings touch all the compass points of verbal intention.


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