Sentence examples for circumnavigated from inspiring English sources
The word "circumnavigated" is correct and well written
It is used to describe the act of traveling all the way around something, typically the Earth or an island. Example: "Ferdinand Magellan was the first to have circumnavigated the globe." Alternatives include "sailed around" or "traveled around."
verb
Past of circumnavigate
Accountancy firms circumnavigated this obstacle by forging alliances with law firms rather than merging with them.
It is fully a century since Joshua Slocum, still the greatest of single-handed sailors, circumnavigated the world by himself, and 30 years since Sir Robin Knox-Johnston did the same, non-stop ("Where from?" cried the Falmouth customs; "Falmouth!" he replied).
In around 20 years, the Portuguese will be celebrating a similar quincentenary: that of the expedition led by Ferdinand Magellan which in 1519-22 circumnavigathe the globe for the first time.
Five days earlier, it will release a probe called Beagle 2, after the naval surveying vessel in which Charles Darwin circumnavigated the globe.
In 1798 Matthew Flinders and George Bass circumnavigated the island.
Stanley completed the puzzle in 1875; he circumnavigated Victoria Nyanza, crossed to the Lualaba, followed that river to the Congo, and then followed the Congo to its mouth.
There was further aggressive Athenian action, first under the general Tolmides, who circumnavigated the Peloponnese (456) and perhaps settled the large number of Messenians at Naupactus alongside the original Naupactans, and second, under Pericles, who launched military expeditions in the Gulf of Corinth (454?).
He reached New Zealand, circumnavigated both islands, sailed westward, and on April 19 , 1770 made landfall on the eastern coast of Australia.
Tides permitting, you can get as far as Lerryn and lunch at the 16th-century Ship Inn, provided you can circumnavigate the mud - tales of trapped visitors are legendary in these parts.
Mock had also outpaced a rival for the record, Joan Merriam Smith, who had set out to circumnavigate the globe in a twin-engined Piper Apache from Oakland, following the route fatally pioneered in 1937 by Amelia Earhart.
The Volvo Ocean Race, which left Spain in November 2005 to circumnavigate the world before finishing up in Sweden this June, has adopted the Save the Albatross Campaign.
