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Example sentences for "different direction"

  • So the young trader took up his gun and went off in a different direction.

  • Making their first portage over a "divide," they reached another small stream that ran in quite a different direction, emptying itself into one of the branches of the Mississippi, or Churchill River.

  • Denoting a different direction; not on or towards: away; as, to look off.

  • The low, dark clouds in rafts scurried past at frantic speed; through rifts in the fleeing masses the higher layers were visible, hurrying in a different direction.

  • A moment later the Jaguar resumed her journey, but in a different direction.

  • When Suma again emerged from her lair, two nights later, she started in a different direction.

  • These browsed in a different direction; but, as they were near, he went afoot, taking little Jan along with him.

  • All at once the bell of the leading mule ceased to sound; in a few seconds it recommenced, but in quite a different direction, and similar sounds issued from the ravines on the left of the road.

  • The woods, perviated every where with paths, unhappily afforded us no new traces, and we much feared that the robbers had divided their plunder, and gone off in a different direction.

  • Without replying to Pepito, the licentiate stopped his horse a moment, and looked in a different direction.

  • Weak and exhausted as they were, they took their rifles and started for the neighboring uplands, each taking a different direction.

  • They had been in a different direction to that in which Markhead and his companion had proceeded, and from the signs they had observed, expressed their belief that the country was alive with Indians.

  • From the same cause, exerting itself in a different direction, the friends of the new system had been still more alarmed.

  • His fears took a different direction, and all his precautions were used to check and limit the exercise of the powers vested in the government of the United States.

  • Indeed, she sent me on an errand in quite a different direction; but I wished to come this way, and thought there was no hurry about her commission.

  • His cleverness lies in a different direction.

  • Even Jane never would allow me to say that you were inferior to Francis; she said your talents lay in a different direction.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    both their; different authors; different cases; different colours; different depths; different heights; different line; different members; different people; different peoples; different persons; different point; different proportions; different rates; different regions; different sections; different sizes; different sort; different specimens; different things; full assurance; held her; horse thieves; many sorts; roast them; unaccented syllable