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Example sentences for "little way"

  • When it was a little way on in the morning the servants rose, and the first to enter the room were two women, the maid with the bondi's daughter.

  • Then Onund went into the forest, while the two brothers took the boat of their foster-father Ingjald, rowed away and lay in hiding a little way off.

  • There was an island a little way off, whither they carried as much of their property as they could get off in the night.

  • After they had gone a little way Grettir's garter broke.

  • I slid down the tree a little way, and when the calf was near enough, I gently slipped the noose over its neck, and promptly made it a prisoner under the very nose of its astonished mother, who bellowed mournfully.

  • When we were some miles from land I noticed a dark-looking object on the surface of the water a little way ahead.

  • I retired a little way discomfited, remembering suddenly my own fantastic appearance.

  • But when all my preparations were complete, and I had rowed out a little way, I made a discovery that nearly drove me crazy.

  • The goats carried Heidi along with them a little way, which was what Peter wanted.

  • Clara was first to have more practice in walking so that she might be able to go a little way by herself; above all things grandmamma was not to have a hint of it.

  • Then he lifted her up, and putting his left arm behind her and giving her his right to lean upon, made her walk a little way, which she did with less trembling and hesitation than before now that she had such a strong arm round her.

  • Keeping the course as far as the Tyropoeon Valley, which it followed a little way south, it turned and again ran west until a short distance beyond what tradition tells us was the Judgment Gate, from whence it broke abruptly south.

  • And through all the debate Love stood off but a little way--a strong temptation, the stronger of a gleam of policy behind.

  • Placing the water by the basket, she stepped back, and stood off a little way.

  • Off a little way, where a slanted gleam of the sun fell with a glare upon the mosaic of the floor, there was a statue which attracted their notice.

  • As the ship was making so little way, Dodd beat up towards them: he feared it was a British ship that had foundered in the storm, and thought it his duty to ascertain and carry the sad news home.

  • One remained; sat quietly down a little way off, struck a sweetly aromatic lucifer, and blew a noisome cloud; but the only one which betokens calm.

  • But Dodd had no sooner sent him headlong by that mighty effort, than his own sight darkened, his head swam, and, after staggering a little way, he sank down in a state bordering on insensibility.

  • It struck him after a while that the man made very little way, and at last seemed to go up and down in one place.

  • Nay, nay, a woman looks but a little way, therefore she sees clear.

  • He rose and went back slowly and unsteadily, like one disjointed; and sick at heart as the mouse, that the cat lets go a little way, and then darts and replaces.

  • They entered the gallery without being heard; and parting a little way, one pretending to look at one picture, the other at another, crept gradually round till they joined the group.

  • She walked a little way, leaning on his arm, up to the house, where she had a glass of water; after which she said she felt better, and returned with him to the carriage.

  • They are caught with Hook and Line at the Inlets, and sometimes out a little way at Sea.

  • They are taken by a Bait, near the Inlet, or out at Sea a little way.

  • The boy cautiously let down the window a little way.

  • She played her shot, and they walked for a little way together.

  • But you will come just this little way," she continued, speaking without any change of tone.

  • I was looking where you were looking," she declared lightly, "just trying to see a little way beyond.

  • Between where we are sitting now and there--only a little way out to sea--is a jagged cluster of cruel rocks.

  • The lady stood a little way off, looking, even in the clumsy attire I had fashioned for her, at once grand and graceful.

  • Instinctively then, as to the only living thing near me, I turned to the raven, which stood a little way off, regarding me with an expression at once respectful and quizzical.

  • I descended a little way, found it warmer, and sat down to wait the dawn.

  • The child stood by himself a little way off, eating an apple nearly as big as his head.

  • But the light of the candle reached such a little way, that at first I could see nothing of the place.

  • He had gone but a little way in the Green Forest when he caught a glimpse of a blue form stealing away through the trees.

  • Before she could add anything further the clear whistle of Glory the Cardinal sounded from a tree just a little way off.

  • Can't you fly up just a little way so as to get off the ground?

  • Nothing was said until, against a shady background of foliage, five white bars were visible, crossing their route a little way ahead.

  • Bathsheba was momentarily relieved of that wayward heaviness of the past twenty-four hours which had quenched the vitality of youth in her without substituting the philosophy of maturer years, and she resolved to go out and walk a little way.

  • Boldwood followed him a little way up the field, hesitated, and turned back.

  • We then went on a little way, and in the evening anchored again.

  • A little way inside it becomes bounded by precipitous rocks, after winding among which for about two miles, we emerged into what seemed a lake, but which was in fact a deep gulf having a narrow entrance on the south coast.

  • After coasting it a little way, they observed a shelf of rock jutting out.

  • A little way off, on their left, something white was shining.

  • The spectral procession marched on, a little way ahead, on a path parallel with his own and Dreamsinter's.

  • Lower down the stream, most of the sparks are vigorous enough to escape to the upper air, but some are held when they are a little way up, and these burst suddenly into shapes.

  • Maskull waited for him, and when he was nearer went a little way to meet him.

  • She sailed a little way on that course, and then paid off again, and seemed inclined to range along the coast.

  • His feelings became intolerable; he set his back to the boat, and with herculean strength forced it down a little way to meet the tide.

  • But he traced it upward a little way, and found a place where it ran beside a deep decline.

  • Two shots had been fired at guinea-fowl a little way off in the valley; the women fled into the woods, and the men came to know if war was meant, and a few of the old folks only returned after hearing that we were for peace.

  • Having been delayed one morning by some negotiation about guides, who were used chiefly to introduce us to other villages, we two whites walked a little way ahead, taking the direction of the stream.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little 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:
    kill thee; little astonished; little breeze; little chap; little delay; little dove; little experience; little feet; little glass; little heart; little hill; little later; little master; little more; little older; little pile; little poem; little remarkable; little room; little stick; little time; little town; little valley; little warm; little way; little world