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Example sentences for "its way"

  • One of the pleasures I had promised myself consisted in asking you several questions about the Leader, which is really, in its way, an interesting paper.

  • I now think that there is a finer and truer method than his, but in its way, Tourguenief's method is as far as art can go.

  • But the thing was certainly impressive in its way.

  • Her indignation at finding herself in the same room with Anne broke its way through, not the restraints only, but the common decencies of politeness.

  • Nothing is more remarkable, in its way, than the sound common-sense and admirable self-restraint exhibited by the youth of the present time when confronted by an emergency in which their own interests are concerned.

  • The name on the box (recently written on a new luggage label, as the color of the ink and paper showed) was a very good name in its way, common to a very great number of ladies, both in Scotland and England.

  • Or she may have met with some passing vehicle from one of the farms on its way to the station, and may have asked the person driving to give her a seat in it.

  • There is a Physical objection to the present rage for muscular exercises of all sorts, which is quite as strong, in its way, as the Moral objection.

  • Oh yes, quite a good enough fan in its way, but still .

  • We begin with Spanish olives, then a borshch, then more olives and a bird of some kind, and a rather enticing Rhenish wine, not at all expensive as wines go in this country, but still quite laudable in its way.

  • Monygham's body, possessed by the exaltation of self-sacrifice; a reasonable exaltation, determined not to lose whatever advantage chance put into its way.

  • Every three months an increasing stream of treasure swept through the streets of Sulaco on its way to the strong room in the O.

  • There was between them an intimacy of antagonism as close in its way as the intimacy of accord and affection.

  • Nothing could be more simple and perfect in its way; nothing more free from any effort at orating; all was in the most quiet and natural manner possible.

  • In the spring of 1860, the Republican National Convention was held at Chicago, and one fine morning I went to the railway station to greet the New York delegation on its way thither.

  • Though most, if not all, the proceedings thus stated by Mr. Raymond were fictions of his own imagination, they served the purpose; his own resolution started the whole machinery and set the convention prosperously on its way.

  • Either, it is to be supposed, if respectable in its way, would be a more agreeable offering, to a person of education, than gold or silver in the shape most modern workmen give them.

  • Sherman's cavalry took up its line of march soon after the bridge was completed, and by half-past three the whole of it was over both bridges and on its way to strike the enemy's communications at Chickamauga Station.

  • The third had not yet arrived from Lake Providence; it was on its way to Milliken's Bend and was to follow on arrival.

  • I had heard of the surrender of the camp and that the garrison was on its way to the arsenal.

  • That was a very magnificent idea indeed in its way; it would have given a tremendous advantage in the handling of innumerable specialties and indeed I scarcely know how far it would not have put the medical profession in our grip.

  • One night picks itself out as typical, as, in its way, marking an epoch.

  • This is all very pretty in its way," I said at last, "but it's a dream.

  • I'd like to know what sort of trading isn't a swindle in its way.

  • Some thousands of needy ineffectual men had been raked together to trail their spiritless misery through the West Eire with an appeal that was also in its way a weak and insubstantial threat: "It is Work we need, not Charity.

  • Life in London was interesting, and in its way charming, but she did not enter into it with quite her husband's enthusiasm and heartiness.

  • He was delighted, of course; for really it was a fine compliment, in its way, and most of the letters were distinctly amusing.

  • It is the most pretentious feature of the book, and in its way about as good as any.

  • The floors are sleek & shiny & full of reflections, for each is a mirror in its way, softly imaging all objects after the subdued fashion of forest lakes.

  • And though her letter was in its way a true exposition of her feeling, had it been necessary to go through the whole legal process over again she would have been found equal to the emergency.

  • The first, in which, at the time of writing, the suppressio veri was too strong for her conscience, had now become an honest letter, and sadly folding it she sent the missive on its way.

  • Nothing could be, in its way, more beautiful.

  • Nothing could be better in its way, and it took the taste of the morning sermon out of my mouth.

  • A visit to Wells Cathedral with Freeman was in its way ideal; for never in all my studies of mediaeval buildings have I had so good a guide.

  • She endeavoured to solace herself with the belief that after she had gone he would instinctively turn to June once more, and that life on the farm would probably resume the even tenor of its way.

  • A whiff of air tinged with the salt tang of the sea blew in at the window, and she came suddenly out of her musings to find that the car was winding its way up the hill upon which the Hermitage was perched.

  • The same evening a letter in Lady Arabella's spirited, angular handwriting sped on its way to Paris.

  • You may even tell them that it is on its way.

  • Politeness is all very well in its way, but frankness is better.

  • I went on and told her that the portrait of her daughter was on its way to her.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "its way" 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:
    its action; its appearance; its author; its being; its best; its centre; its existence; its influence; its length; its life; its members; its parts; its people; its position; its surface; its turn; its use; its work; itself only; itself the; light cruiser; pulverized sugar; sanctifying grace; small cove; somewhat remarkable; under certain