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Example sentences for "little ways"

  • I 'spect hit would be better ter take him back a little ways, any way," said the man whom Jake had pursued.

  • He told her that there was a wagon up the pike a little ways with a woman in it, to which he would conduct her, and they would go back to the army in front of Murfreesboro.

  • It is not necessary for you to take down your tents or move any of your camp equipage at all; for I will drill the teamsters out on that little prairie yonder," and he pointed to a clear space a little ways up the road.

  • A little ways from us there was a little ravine which was covered with brush, and it led down to the valley where the Elk were feeding.

  • The evening we got to Denver we went a little ways up the Platte river to find a place to camp, and whom should we meet but our old friend Jim Beckwith.

  • I answered, "Well, we will go up the river a little ways to those rocks yonder," and I pointed up the stream.

  • I couldn't see but a little ways, but I went poking along over rough ground for a quarter of a mile or more, and then I run across a big old-fashioned double log-house before I noticed it.

  • There was a wood-rank four foot high a little ways in front of the tree, and first I was going to hide behind that; but maybe it was luckier I didn't.

  • WE slept most all day, and started out at night, a little ways behind a monstrous long raft that was as long going by as a procession.

  • I started on my way, Pont following after I had gone a little ways.

  • After hanging up the saddles he didn't search long until he found the trail of the bear, and followed the trail only a little ways, when he found Bruin fast in a clump of brush.

  • We knew nothing about the road or where it went, but finally concluded to take the road leading south for a little ways.

  • He followed the trail a little ways, and as it led in an opposite direction from that taken by the deer, Bill said he thought he would finish one job at a time, so he continued after the deer.

  • Perhaps you also observed that I rank only a little ways below my illustrious cousin, Kathleen.

  • I was only going to ride a little ways, but the wind blew me out; I know it was wrong, though, cause pap said, not to touch it.

  • Down this side of Shanty hill a little ways.

  • I don't mind what my conversation was, but kept on down the street, and heard no more firing until I got down a little ways, and I heard several rambling shots fired.

  • We all walked along together a little ways talking, and he decided to go back, and the carriage turned around and Norris got in and rode back.

  • Meanwhile Si had strolled over a little ways to where an old worm fence had stood when the regiment went into camp.

  • Si and Shorty came to the bank a little ways down, blowing and sputtering, and both very angry.

  • Si and Nate ran across the open space to the laurels, and found a little ways in a bushwhacker staggering from pain and loss of blood from a wound in his hip, and making labored efforts to escape.

  • Den Brer Tarrypin tell Brer Buzzud fer ter creep in little ways en tas'e en see how he like um, w'iles he take his stan' on de outside en watch fer somebody.

  • Wid dat, he open de do' little ways, en he see Brer Fox projickin' wid 'im.

  • I des crope in a little ways, en it des drip all down my back, same like water.

  • He pointed out of the window to a field a little ways off: I could see the buttercups shinin' in it from where I sat.

  • I can't go but a little ways at a time, can I?

  • He had proceeded then across the roof but a little ways, when he heard suddenly, almost directly beneath him, the sound of footsteps.

  • Try as best he could, the sail would hoist but a little ways on the mast.

  • Then we went out a little ways, and then we didn't see anything.

  • T was kept in a chair, a little ways off.

  • Two squaws have got a tent a little ways off, and the boys are going to have their fortunes taken.

  • They sets down on the roots of a big tree a little ways off, with their backs toward me, and they ain't seen me.

  • But she only opens a little ways, fur his wash stand was near to the hinge end of the door.

  • I jest picks up that book and sticks it under my arm and walks away slow with it to where they was a stump a little ways off, not fur from the crick, and sets down with my back to her and opens it.

  • And Perkins also started home walkin' afoot, it wuz so little ways.

  • The machinery of this clock, what makes it go, is up above a little ways on the hill in a small pavilion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "little ways" 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:
    little above; little abruptly; little afraid; little after; little ahead; little church; little distance; little dreaming; little essence; little family; little flush; little food; little friends; little gravy; little honey; little island; little likely; little noise; little north; little over; little soldier; little surprised; little temple; little vinegar; little warm; may well