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Example sentences for: orient

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Throughout Italy’s history, its northeast regions have linked the country to the exotic outside world of Byzantium and the Orient through Venice and its Repubblica Serena, and to the Alpine countries north of the Dolomites, while the plains of Emilia-Romagna from Ravenna to Parma provided an anchor to the heartland of the Po valley.
Not too long ago, the personnel department of a business would orient new workers (the word originally meant to point out where the sun rose; i.e., which way was east).
In his groundbreaking 1978 study, Orientalism , Said accused previous generations of scholars of peddling a view of an exotic, backward, savage Orient, the intellectual justification for colonizing or manipulating the region.
The windmill’s vane will measure the direction of the wind and actually orient the windmill fan blades perpendicular to the wind.
(It is beyond me, for example, why people in eastern Asia should be offended by the word orient , which is no more than a reference to the place where the sun rises.)