Sentence examples for on a compass setting from inspiring English sources

From at least 1277 the Genoese and from 1314 the Venetians sent annual galley convoys through the Strait of Gibraltar and thence, on a compass setting, across the Bay of Biscay to English and Flemish ports.

Her tiger in this book is wide eyed and friendly, and clearly has a strong moral compass, setting Bobby Grabbit on a new, less illegal path in life!

A Company subsequently set out on a compass bearing which would take them across the northern edge of the Gang Toi plateau.

Without changing the compass setting, move the compass point to the other endpoint.

Aid should be distributed according to need, not "points on a compass", say Ruhr mayors.

Their progeny's name can be found on a compass.

I'm hitting the road again in a few minutes compass set to Raleigh, NC.

Take a compass and set it to the length of the radius.

In the example above, leave your compass set to a width of 4cm.

Compass set the pace on this front with its debut back in 2012, when it was called Urban Compass and announced funding of $8 million from an elite group of backers, at the time one of the largest-ever seed rounds for a startup (all things are relative: $8 million seems almost quaint now).

Driver, we soon come to realise, is an American riff on Jean-Pierre Melville's solitary samourai, smiling and serene, his moral compass set to neutral.