Sentence Examples

1. They stood out to sea, steering for the straits we, without looking to any compass save the land we had before us, set ourselves to row with such energy that by sunset we were so near that we might easily, we thought, land before the night was far advanced.
2. He reached into his pocket and produced the makeshift compass.
3. As he fought off the pirates, Captain Drake would take any reprieve he could to glance at his compass in order to make sure that the ship was still on course, despite the battle.
4. I could tell them how we loved to take rambles in the countryside using a compass and a map to navigate.
5. Jordan watched as the compass spun and spun and spun.
6. There he lay like a tortoise enclosed in its shell, or a side of bacon between two kneading-troughs, or a boat bottom up on the beach nor did the gang of jokers feel any compassion for him when they saw him down so far from that, extinguishing their torches they began to shout afresh and to renew the calls to arms with such energy, trampling on poor Sancho, and slashing at him over the shield with their swords in such a way that, if he had not gathered himself together and made himself small and drawn in his head between the shields, it would have fared badly with the poor governor, as, squeezed into that narrow compass, he lay, sweating and sweating again, and commending himself with all his heart to God to deliver him from his present peril.
7. That way is up, he thought, setting his inner compass by the string.
8. The points of the compass, too, are in inextricable confusion the writer appearing to be ignorant that, on a lunar map, these are not in accordance with terrestrial points the east being to the left, etc.
9. Seeing a compass as a child gave him insight, that there are invisible forces guiding the universe, with rules that could be discovered and understood.
10. The night was moonless, the forest unnaturally silent, but like a compass needle drawn to magnetic north, I stumbled straight back to camp.