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Example sentences for "one direction"

  • The two principal ingredients are melted smoothly together and kept from curdling by stirring steadily in one direction only, over an even heat.

  • Add cheese slowly, half a cup at a time, and stir steadily in one direction only, as in making Welsh Rabbit.

  • I have heard uncle Howe and father say that they have repeatedly lost themselves in the woods, but by following in one direction to a given point they could soon find themselves again.

  • When the tobacco is put in bulk, the stem of the leaves should all be kept in one direction, to facilitate the tying of them in hanks: afterwards make the bulk two of three feet high, and of a proportionate circumference.

  • It was formerly the practice to lop down the tops of the corn, and let it hang some time, that the brush might become straightened in one direction.

  • We were attracted by a dense crowd and loud cries in one direction.

  • Rockets was searching in one direction, Nol Grampus in others, with several of the rest of the men, while I felt almost frantic, expecting the ship to fill and go down every instant.

  • Some thought they saw her stealing off in one direction; others declared they saw her steering an opposite course.

  • When the battery contact was made in one direction, the galvanometer-needle was deflected on the one side; if made in the other direction, the deflection was on the other side.

  • As the disc revolved in one direction, the needle was deflected on one side: and when the direction of revolution was reversed, the needle was inclined on the other side, in accordance with the results anticipated.

  • Tin vessels were formed, five inches deep, one inch and a quarter wide in one direction, of different widths from three eighths to five eighths of an inch in the other, and open at one extremity.

  • But, unless our heads were as large as sugar hogsheads, we could not be so furnished, and we must either have movable eyes or see only in one direction.

  • For the lord of all moving things is alone able to move of himself; and to think that he moves them at one time in one direction and at another time in another is blasphemy.

  • All know that slate splits or cleaves freely, in one direction only, into flat layers.

  • Let him intend his mind without respite, without rest, in one direction.

  • There is one direction in which all space is open to him.

  • I cannot see what you see, because I am caught up by a strong wind and blown so far in one direction that I am out of the hoop of your horizon.

  • Any combination of forces acting in one direction must be forthwith neutralized by another in the opposite direction.

  • After setting a few spokes in one direction, the Epeira runs across to the other side to draw some in the opposite direction.

  • Its activity urges it in one direction, ever forwards, without allowing it to retrace its steps, even when an accident makes this necessary.

  • We recognize our errors in one direction, and in our efforts to prevent those we fall into quite as dangerous ones on the other side.

  • In a little valley in Switzerland, seeing a bevy of children starting, so many in one direction, before it was light in the morning, I inquired where all those children were going.

  • It must be also remembered that this pressure is not regularly exerted, but on account of the swinging and swaying motion of the skirts, is applied now in one direction, now in another.

  • When he got to the wheel he found that it had been put the wrong way, while the yards were being braced up first in one direction, then in another.

  • He suggested, that while the frigate stood after the felucca in one direction, he should be allowed to cruise in an opposite direction, to double the chances of falling in with her.

  • Now, these changes do not all operate in one direction, nor are they all of similar character, whence it is that not only are there earth currents of feeble electro-motive force, but that this E.

  • When a current of electricity is generated by a cell, it is assumed to move along the wire in one direction, in a steady, continuous flow, and is called a direct current.

  • A) in one direction, the induced current in the wire (B) will move in the opposite direction.

  • Do not move more than an octave in one direction in two skips.

  • Successive similar skips, except the minor third (a), in one direction, are to be avoided.

  • The third should be doubled only when a decidedly smoother melodic progression is thereby obtained; and when both thirds are in outer parts, each should be approached and left stepwise in one direction (Fig.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "one 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:
    human suffering; much uneasiness; one after; one case; one cup sweet milk; one end; one for; one had; one half; one hand; one hundred; one hundred thousand men; one hundred years ago; one instance; one man; one moment; one night; one place; one pound; one sees; one sense; one way; one will; public letter; shall offer; wireless telegraphy