bearings


see get one's bearings.

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How to use bearings in a sentence

  • If one starts out in a haphazard way, it takes him a long time to find his bearings, and much valuable time is lost.

  • As the Cabinet are anxious to consider my situation in all its bearings, it is necessary I should open to you all my mind.

  • It went out in a few seconds, but not before the master of the tug had taken its bearings and altered his course.

  • The ends of the balance staff are made very small so as to form very delicate pivots which turn in jewel bearings.

  • He tried to think, tried to co-ordinate events, tried to understand the true bearings of the situation.

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