compass

Skye MRT said walkers should be wary of technology failing and be able to use a map and compass.

From BBC ● Aug. 8, 2026

Despite her national profile, there remains a nagging suspicion that she lacks an internal compass and the courage of her convictions.

From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026

Walking in these diagonal directions, as well as 5 feet in the straight compass directions, shows that many pairs of dots on this giant chessboard are exactly 5 feet apart.

From Slate ● Jun. 22, 2026

For help with that internal navigation, Rebecca Solnit’s moving 2005 book, “A Field Guide to Getting Lost,” proved a better compass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2026

“Of course you do,” she said, before flicking the compass needle and spinning it round and round.

From "The Science of Breakable Things" by Tae Keller

Guided by phosphorescent compasses strapped to their wrists, the divers reached the ship in just a few minutes.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

Earth's dipole field, created by its liquid outer iron core, produces a magnetic field that loops from the North Pole to the South Pole and is the reason compasses point toward the poles.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 25, 2024

Dr. Sharvit speculated that, lacking compasses, astrolabes or sextants, seafarers in the 14th century B.C. probably relied on celestial navigation, taking sightings and angles of the sun and star positions.

From New York Times ● Jun. 20, 2024

So many of the technologies that we know today were stolen from China by the West, such as porcelain, gunpowder, compasses and bank deposit insurance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2024

The screen responded as quickly as thought itself, and out of the welter of lines and flashes a series of pictures formed with perfect clarity: compasses, alpha and omega again, lightning, angel.

From "The Subtle Knife" by Philip Pullman

“Wild Swans” would seem to have laid bare every cruel irony of the volatile times it compassed.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 14, 2026

The "great tracts of land" he imagines "compassed about with heavens fair" are not necessarily those of Eden.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 20, 2010

She compassed a weighty historical tome in 1922, after which fiction-writing seemed like child's play.

From Time Magazine Archive

And as men's political horizons expand toward the world state, each man feels a stronger need to cherish some one region small enough to be compassed by one heart and mind.

From Time Magazine Archive

If these are honestly expressed, he has compassed the main end of house-building.

From A Breeze from the Woods, 2nd Ed. by William Chauncey Bartlett

For he would not have supposed that Miss Judy was known by any one beyond the compassing hills, so completely had her life seemed bound about by the wooded borders of the village.

From Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century by Nancy Huston Banks

She was afterwards, however, accused of consulting witches concerning the mode of compassing the death of her husband’s nephew, Henry VI.

From Folk-lore of Shakespeare by Thomas Firminger Thiselton-Dyer

To think of compassing anything by force was absurd, for the count, not having yet acknowledged his sin, he had no legal right over the child.

From The Grandee by Armando Palacio Valdés

Among other things, treason was defined to be waging war against the King, or compassing and imagining his death, or the overthrow of his Government.

From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Henry B. Stanton

"And now," said I, eyeing the pair, "what mischief have you two been compassing?"

From The O'Ruddy A Romance by C. D. (Charles D.) Williams