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Example sentences for "direct reference"

  • This comforted Aunt Betsy, who had made many of her preparations for the wedding with a direct reference to the "city folks" so confidently expected.

  • He had not tasted food that day, and faint for the want of it he followed her to where the table had been set, and supper prepared with a direct reference to his particular taste.

  • Ever since hearing that he was at Clifton, in the next room to Ethie, Aunt Barbara had counted upon a speedy reconciliation, and done many things with a direct reference to that reconciliation.

  • Observe that this is a direct reference to Berkeley.

  • Direct reference to experience, therefore, became a necessary element in idealism.

  • It may lead to conclusions which become determining factors in action, but the process of inquiry has no direct reference to conduct.

  • It made no direct reference to Cooper, but the whole object was to discredit the account of the battle which he had given.

  • The house had received from the inhabitants the name of Templeton Hall, with a direct reference to "The Pioneers.

  • There is no mention whatever of the name of Valentinus in the passage, and, as we shall presently {57} show, there is no direct reference in the whole chapter to Valentinus himself.

  • This is a direct reference to the passage in Zech.

  • There is no evidence of their use by heretical leaders, however, and no direct reference to them by any writer, heretical or orthodox, whom we have examined.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "direct reference" 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:
    country store; direct descendant; direct evidence; direct legislation; direct object; direct perception; direct popular; direct question; direct quotation; direct ratio; direct result; direct taxation; direct tendency; directed above; directing them; direction opposite; directly after; directly opposed; divine righteousness; find myself; give attention; just west; plain sewing; separate species; small village; territorial legislature