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Example sentences for "each direction"

  • They had figured that upon many of the local lines of railroad, operating but two or three trains a day in each direction at the most, they could not under the most favorable conditions "make" more than four towns a day.

  • The branch line carried no through business, nor was its local freight traffic of importance, but it was able to operate profitably eleven local passenger trains in each direction daily.

  • In a short time it was running from the big city below the base of the mountains and the railroad was taking off one of its two daily trains upon the branch in each direction.

  • The traffic in that wonderfully busy station has for many years had sharp limitations because of the four tracks in that tunnel, two tracks being used for the train movement in each direction.

  • Twenty-five per cent more travelled on the limited trains, which makes an excess of $5, in addition to Pullman rates, in each direction.

  • Last year fifty per cent of the passengers between New York and Chicago went on the eighteen-hour train, even though the regular full fare of $20 in each direction is increased by an excess fare of $10, aside from the Pullman rates.

  • I have not been able to trace it beyond this.

  • It is one of the most productive, economical, and healthful of all garden vegetables.

  • Root fusiform, three inches in diameter at the crown, and from, twelve to fourteen inches in depth.

  • Flesh white, zoned or marked with yellow, close-grained and sugary.

  • Where space is limited, it may be grown in rows six inches apart, thinned to three inches apart in the rows; or sown broadcast, and the young plants thinned to three inches apart in each direction.

  • The slips, or sprouts, may be set on ridges four feet apart, and fifteen inches from plant to plant; or in hills four or five feet apart in each direction, three plants being allowed to a hill.

  • Take up a few plants entire in autumn; preserve them during winter in the manner of cabbages or turnips; and transplant to the open ground in April, two feet apart in each direction.

  • He had improved his own diplex, combined it with the Stearns duplex and thereby produced a system by means of which four messages could be sent over a single line at the same time, two in each direction.

  • The distance is 10 miles in each direction, 8 miles of which may be done on horseback; as the path over the remaining 2 miles is difficult and somewhat dangerous, a guide should be employed.

  • Yosemite via Mariposa Big Trees, Wawona, and Inspiration Point, including side trip Chinquapin to Glacier Point and return, in each direction 19.

  • Distance, 7 miles in each direction; saddle horses may be ridden to the top; guide not necessary.

  • It only took a fortnight on the road in each direction.

  • It started off in good style, operating two passenger express trains, an accommodation and two freights each day in each direction.

  • It was a real service, indeed--five trains a day over the main line in each direction, and adequate schedules upon the branches.

  • There were also three trains a day in each direction on the Cape Vincent, and Oswego branches and two on the one between DeKalb and Potsdam Junctions.

  • Now there were two passenger trains a day in each direction.

  • The line was a single-track one, with a sufficient number of stations and passing places to allow of the running of seven trains in each direction in the twenty-four hours.

  • These conditions necessitated the limitation of the traffic, when the line was first opened, to the running of three trains a day in each direction.

  • The more money a man has the less is the marginal utility which it yields him; and, where the marginal utility of money to a man is small, so also will be the real marginal utility he derives in each direction of his expenditure.

  • To ascertain the margin of profitable expenditure in each direction, to go thus and no further, is the very essence of the business spirit, as the business man himself conceives it.

  • A cane of ten or a dozen buds is tied out in each direction, and the shoots are allowed to hang in essentially the same manner as in the True or High Kniffin system.

  • Two canes may be tied in each direction on the lower wire, or the two inner canes may be tied down to the second wire.

  • Yet, despite this hindering factor, the McAdoo centralized authority succeeded in cutting the fifteen through trains in each direction down to nine and in slightly spreading the leaving times.

  • He charged seventy-five cents for the ride in each direction, which was something more than six cents a mile.

  • Forty years ago this line had four passenger-trains a day in each direction; to-day it has but four once again.

  • By that I mean, even though there were on four railroads between that city and St. Louis before the coming of the war fifteen fast through trains in each direction, there were to all practical purposes but three or four.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "each 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:
    each aisle; each boat; each case; each corps; each county; each finger; each gens; each hill; each kind; each nation; each night; each other; each period; each regiment; each ring; each second; each segment; each step; each three; each tree; each valve; each woman; enforce the; frictional electricity; you say; your own