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Example sentences for "its course"

  • By the line of its course, Dick judged it should lead more or less directly to the Moat House.

  • It was a shark that had actually turned on its back to seize its prey, and was only prevented from succeeding by being driven from the line of its course by hitting the slimy rock, over which it was compelled to make its plunge.

  • Its course, as usual, was to be marked by its path along the sea, as it bounded, half a mile at a time, from wave to wave.

  • We had been travelling for some distance upon a high level open country, and now came to a sudden gorge of several hundred feet below us, through which the Rocky river wound its course.

  • Upon regaining the eastern shore, I found that all I had been able to effect was to determine that the lake still continued its course to the N.

  • Where is that Philip, whose unchanging soul, Fixed as the polar star in heaven above, Round its own axis still pursued its course?

  • Sooner shall the ball turn back in its course, and bury itself in the entrails of the marksman.

  • Whenever the stem or hypocotyl became much bowed towards the light, the latter part of its course had to be traced on a vertical glass, parallel to the window, and at right angles to the horizontal glass cover.

  • In part of its course an irregular ellipse, or rather triangle, was completed in 6 h.

  • On the second day, by which time it had risen considerably, and when apogeotropism acted on it with somewhat less power, its course during 15 ½ h.

  • The trees of the forest furnished the resting-places for the long poles which kept the jangada in its course.

  • Hence this immense river system is under the same climatic conditions during the whole of its course.

  • The river is very beautiful along this part of its course.

  • On the expiry of the five years the man's head was cut off and thrown up in the air amongst a large concourse of villagers, each of whom vied with the other in trying to catch it in its course down.

  • There was no help for it; they could do nothing to arrest the gyratory movement of the raft; it turned round with dizzying rapidity, and drifted out of its course.

  • In its course of 200 miles it waters the finest lands of the North Island, from the province of Wellington to the province of Auckland.

  • He drove ashore in a small bark so swift And light, that in its course no wave it drank.

  • This meteor had a real tail many miles long, which threw off sparks in its course, and the whole exploded with a sound like distant thunder.

  • The new planet in its course or ascent from the sun, might explode and eject a satellite, or perhaps more than one, and thus by its course being affected might not return into the sun.

  • If the disease progresses in its course, unchecked by any remediate means, the cornea may lose its vitality, ulceration commence, and the sight be for ever destroyed by the bursting and discharge of the contents of the eye.

  • Epidemic pneumonia was generally fatal, if it was not speedily arrested in its course.

  • That in our domestic animals the spinal marrow is scarcely ever affected through the whole of its course.

  • Presently an eddy threw the canoe a little out of its course, disconcerting Charley's intention of shaving a rock, which lay in their track, so that he slightly grazed it in passing.

  • Well, you recollect that people used to tell of the way in which the river rose after the breaking up of the ice, and how it soon overflowed all the low points, sweeping off everything in its course.

  • She knew little of this country, but she had seen the Edera, and had crossed it farther up its course on one of its rough tree-bridges.

  • After crossing the bridge the pipes were carried up the other side of the valley into a reservoir, of which little remains, and then the aqueduct was continued to the next valley, passing over three bridges in its course.

  • It was no longer considered necessary to conceal the aqueduct underground during the whole of its course, and so it was in part carried above ground on embankments or supported upon arches of masonry.

  • Soucieu, on the edge of the valley of the Garonne, where are still seen the remains of a splendid bridge, the thirteenth on its course, nearly 1,600 ft.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "its course" 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:
    good right; its banks; its best; its body; its centre; its character; its existence; its full; its influence; its kind; its life; its mouth; its object; its people; its position; its power; its side; its value; its waters; itself alone; itself only; itself sufficient; mixed diet; often seen; that sense; went then