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Example sentences for "different directions"

  • They had not followed the trail very far when they learned that the Indians had divided their forces and gone in different directions.

  • The two chiefs immediately communicated with their followers, who at once sent out runners in different directions to bring back the escaped prisoners.

  • I took a walk on my return from the Botanic gardens round the environs, and was much pleased by the objects of interest that displayed in different directions.

  • Watson galloped off to take command of the Punjab Cavalry, and Norman and I rode in different directions to search for the Brigadier.

  • These got speedily to horse, and, the alarm still flying wild and contrary, galloped in different directions.

  • By the action of the muscles of the eye, it is turned in different directions, so that objects can be examined upon each side, as well as in front, without turning the body.

  • The heart is composed of muscular fibres, that traverse it in different directions, some longitudinally, but most of them in a spiral direction.

  • By their contractions it may be moved in different directions.

  • During their absence I intended to practise the party in making short explorations in different directions.

  • Side of the river on their way to the Black Mountains where they winter those animals return in the Spring in the Same way & Scatter in different directions.

  • He remained a brief while in a crouching posture, while he peered in different directions.

  • In winter, after sinking a shaft to bed-rock, tunnels are run in different directions, and the frozen dirt piled up until warm weather permits its washing out.

  • The miners keep close within the cabins during the terrible winter weather, or, if it permits, they sink a shaft to bed-rock and then tunnel in different directions.

  • As therefore a little while since you kept your mind divided between the interest of Fidenæ and of Rome, so shall you now surrender your body to be torn asunder in different directions.

  • As soon as rumour spread this through the whole assembly, just as an army disperses on the fall of its general, so did they separate in different directions.

  • From this auction, these eleven animals went in different directions, and wherever they went, they scattered the infection.

  • Now, in these two ways the disease has spread in different directions.

  • When the Will is impelled in different directions, by conflicting feelings, it could not for a moment be in a state of indecision, unless we suppose these conflicting feelings to be absolutely equal in strength up to the moment of decision.

  • On several days in succession smoke was observed in different directions, which approached nearer and nearer each time.

  • I was already looking, and saw that about a dozen more left the fireside to go out in different directions, their tall dark figures passing out of sight among the trees.

  • It was the scouts coming back from different directions, with the same report that no enemy was in sight, though they had penetrated in one or two instances right to the forest.

  • You can send out that boy in different directions to scout; not that there is any danger, but we must treat this as an enemy's country, and be prepared.

  • Other tracks likewise branch off in different directions, some towards the summit, and others along the sides of the mountains; leading, probably, to the fields or spots where the inhabitants labour.

  • A very little examination of the distribution of light from the arc shows that the illuminating or candle-power is not the same in different directions.

  • Turning next to the consideration of the electric arc as a source of light, we have already noticed that the illuminating power in different directions is not the same.

  • In measuring the candle-power of arc lamps it is necessary to have some arrangement by which the brightness of the rays proceeding from the arc in different directions can be measured.

  • The process of delineating the photometric or polar curve of intensity for an arc lamp is somewhat tedious, but the curve has the advantage of showing exactly the distribution of light in different directions.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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