NAVIGATION in a Sentence

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For NAVIGATION, below is one of 29 sentences:
At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes.

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 Meanings and Examples of NAVIGATION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
navigation
 n.  guidance of ships or airplanes from place to place
Classic Sentence:
1  In those days, the captain's authority was restricted to the navigation and general management of the vessel; while over the whale-hunting department and all its concerns, the Specksnyder or Chief Harpooneer reigned supreme.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 33. The Specksnyder.
2  Notwithstanding the Hurons were necessarily ignorant of the little channels among the eddies and rapids of the stream, they knew the common signs of such a navigation too well to commit any material blunder.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore Cooper
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 10
3  The author shows his skill in navigation.
Gulliver's Travels 1 By Jonathan Swift
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER V.
4  It was the farthest point of navigation and the culminating point of my experience.
Heart of Darkness By Joseph Conrad
Context  Highlight   In I
5  He forgot the necessary slowness of navigation; he exaggerated to himself the power of Milady.
The Three Musketeers By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In 48 A FAMILY AFFAIR
6  And when they come to look at that spare room they had to take soundings before they could navigate it.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn By Mark Twain
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER V.
7  Two of the men from Jacopo's boat came on board the yacht to assist in navigating it, and he gave orders that she should be steered direct to Marseilles.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre Dumas
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 25. The Unknown.
8  At one corner of the inn, beside a pool in which a flotilla of ducks was navigating, a badly paved path plunged into the bushes.
Les Misérables 2 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER I—WHAT IS MET WITH ON THE WAY FROM NIVELLES
9  One or two stiff gales and the springing of a leak are accidents which experienced navigators scarcely remember to record, and I shall be well content if nothing worse happen to us during our voyage.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Letter 3
10  He reminds me how often the same accidents have happened to other navigators who have attempted this sea, and in spite of myself, he fills me with cheerful auguries.
Frankenstein By Mary Shelley
Context  Highlight   In Chapter 24
11  That's my small experience, so far as the Massachusetts calendar, and Bowditch's navigator, and Daboll's arithmetic go.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 99. The Doubloon.
12  Now of these two, the Pruth is the more easily navigated, but the Sereth is, at Fundu, joined by the Bistritza which runs up round the Borgo Pass.
Dracula By Bram Stoker
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
Example Sentence: (17 in 2 pages)
1  The classical methods of navigation are still useful in today's application.
2  There is a transparent dome on the top of the aircraft, through which celestial observations are made for navigation.
3  Such frequencies can be extremely valuable to companies which provide wireless services such as mobile phone networks or satellite navigation systems.
4  We quickly mastered the basic fundementals of navigation.
5  I'll drive, you take the map and navigate.
6  Pigeons navigate less accurately when the earth's magnetic field is disturbed.
7  We next had to navigate a complex network of committees.
8  Sailors have special equipment to help them navigate.
9  Researchers are not sure of how bees navigate but they feel that vision is crucial.
10  They were a group of early navigators.
11  The reputation of the navigator is under assault from historical revisionists.
12  He wasn't good navigator, so it is necessary that the coastline remain in sight as he moved from one harbor to the next.
13  The steamer was a well-found craft compared with any others that had navigated the river before.
14  Who first navigated the Atlantic?
15  He navigated the plane through the low cloud.