compass

When he turns, we turn, and the anguish that Garfield wordlessly conveys is our compass.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026

The straight lines on the Peters map do not represent true constant compass bearings and so are useless for navigation.

From BBC ● Sep. 5, 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

Worsley had only one compass left, and he lighted a match to check that they were still headed in the right direction: the island itself was lost in the darkness.

From "Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World" by Jennifer Armstrong

Researchers have proposed quantum compasses as highly accurate, "unjammable" alternatives to GPS that do not rely on satellites, and phonon lasers could help bring such concepts closer to reality.

From Science Daily ● Mar. 31, 2026

Cemeteries are invaluable compasses, a theme that binds Enriquez’s essays, and “Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave” is an immersive testament to her genius.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2025

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

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2025

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

By using the compasses set with this separation to step off distances marked on paper, he could estimate the angular separation of the two objects on the sky at that time.

From "The Scientists" by John Gribbin

“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

These aims, it was judged, could be compassed in two years and the New York Board of Regents had been persuaded to issue an irregular* charter, for the first "junior college" in the state.

From Time Magazine Archive

Manchu China en compassed all of Mongolia, Korea and Taiwan.

From Time Magazine Archive

The prairie rolled away back of them as it was compassed by the flying feet, and still the mighty ride went on.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Cyrus Townsend Brady

James was not slow in compassing Ralegh's downfall.

From Great Ralegh by Hugh de Selincourt

All who belonged to it were to be considered guilty of "compassing the death of our Lord the King."

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

In the spring of the year 1763, Pontiac, in compassing his grand scheme of hostility, sent, among the rest, to the Indians of Michillimackinac, inviting them to aid him in the war.

From The Conspiracy of Pontiac and the Indian War after the Conquest of Canada by Francis Parkman

The overt act relied on to convict him of "levying war" and "compassing the death of our Lord the King," was membership of a Reform society!

From The Trial of Theodore Parker For the "Misdemeanor" of a Speech in Faneuil Hall against Kidnapping, before the Circuit Court of the United States, at Boston, April 3, 1855, with the Defence by Theodore Parker

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