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Example sentences for "another direction"

  • I know not, inasmuch as I turned away in another direction.

  • The conversation of the lovers in the myrtle arbor had now taken another direction.

  • The queen wished to lead the conversation from the dangerous topic of religion and give it another direction.

  • Mrs. Willoughby stood gazing at it, half in doubt whether to admire or to condemn, when a voice, within a few yards, suddenly drew her attention in another direction.

  • The surveyor received his compensation, and set off on a similar excursion, for a different employer, and in another direction.

  • But in another direction I met with very different treatment, which I cannot refrain from describing, however ridiculous it may appear.

  • Keeping silence, and turning his eyes on all sides, he fixed them for a moment on Blecourt, then looked in another direction, as if seeking some one else.

  • He obtained several small successes; but these were more than swallowed up by a fatal loss in another direction.

  • We left the Park in another direction, and passed through a part of Lord Sefton's property, by a private road.

  • Here comes this fellow directly on to us," whispered Mr. Brown; "what can we do to start him in another direction?

  • If there is any gold dust buried in this clearing, we must search in another direction.

  • Still keeping the smoke in view, Fred and myself struck off in another direction.

  • The neglect of self-cultivation in one direction may be necessary to action in another direction; but the moral criterion of such self-cultivation or action is to be found in morality as an equilibrium of powers.

  • At first we loved each other as it were more passionately, but we were far less fitted for each other; sometimes one pulled in one and the other in another direction.

  • I thanked him, and my attention was called in another direction.

  • I went out as far as the arsenal, and when I got there I found that they had gone in another direction.

  • To make a demonstration to draw the enemy in a direction where you wish him to go, in order to facilitate the execution of an enterprise in another direction.

  • Always when they had come in sight of a skeleton, Maïeddine had found some excuse to make the girl look in another direction; for he wanted her to love the desert, not to feel horror of its relentlessness.

  • It seemed impossible that a person so highly placed would dare risk his future by kidnapping a European girl, and Jeanne Soubise advised Stephen to turn his suspicions in another direction.

  • The first that appeared, arrived suddenly, while Victoria looked in another direction.

  • He retraced his steps toward the skeleton, but to his surprise it had disappeared, and the tracks of the wearer of the ball were in another direction.

  • The fish obeyed, and Owasso saw the wicked old Manito busy in another direction, fishing, as unconcerned as though he had not just lost a member of his family.

  • I think," he said, "that I cannot decide to take a step in a direction which would put me into the position of necessarily doing an injustice in another direction.

  • According to my conception, it was your duty to retire, once for all, the moment your heart was seriously engaged in another direction.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "another direction" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another characteristic; another creek; another department; another edition; another example; another fact; another family; another hand; another illustration; another lady; another little; another manner; another nature; another object; another order; another party; another passage; another portion; another quarter; another series; another word; another work; another writer; another year; light divine; still future