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Example sentences for "other directions"

  • In regard, also, to the wages of the staff, these may not be reduced yet the power of companies to advance them may be curtailed by any undue swelling of working expenses in other directions.

  • Even when these results do not follow, the commodities carried at these low rates may help to develop the resources, or to expand the population, of a particular district, and thus serve to create traffic in other directions.

  • However the claims of heredity may be made to appear in other directions, they carry weight when applied to an infant race and the traits which distinguish the more advanced varieties of the human family.

  • His mother was a Kentucky girl and his father a Canadian.

  • The average Negro in the city, with all of its excitements and temptations, has not lived there more than half a generation.

  • He was hard pressed in other directions by other Turkish Emirs in Asia Minor, and in the first decade of the fourteenth century the Greek Empire lost all its possessions in the islands of the AEgean Sea.

  • He had gained great distinction in war in other directions.

  • It is necessary to revert to Solyman's feats in other directions.

  • But by this time the Ottoman Empire had begun to shrink at the hands of its enemies in other directions.

  • Kirby is certainly delightful, but he doesn't exhaust the capacity of the adjective; it has branches in other directions.

  • In other directions my language was as foul as anybody's, so that I had nothing to brag about if I had thought of doing so.

  • I made two or three friends among the better-class people in the town, who gave me quite a respectable bag of half-worn clothes, and also promised their aid in other directions.

  • Here and there temporary changes may be made in personnel to meet requirements in other directions.

  • Not until then will our country have time to turn round in other directions.

  • Want of knowledge may at present prevent our tracing all the details of the process, but this is surely a very inadequate ground on which to affirm the existence of a power at variance with our knowledge of nature in other directions.

  • The question had been raised as to whether their services should not be made use of in other directions, as well.

  • In other directions, the results of this fanatic spirit are more concretely shewn, and the terrible evidence that the ancient churches of the country supply is sufficient to cause a shudder to the more tempered spirit of later ages.

  • I look, rather, in other directions for a solution of the problem.

  • In the neighbourhood of our naval bases, our dockyards, our military aeroplane sheds, and in other directions which I need not specify, we keep the most scrupulous and exacting watch.

  • Your value to me would lie in other directions--in your social position, your opportunities of meeting with a class above the commercial one in which I have made my few English friends, and in your own intelligence.

  • Who can describe the martyrdom of the child of genius compelled to spend his brains over a quagmire of things in which he will succeed the less the more he is attracted in other directions?

  • Be sure you have my heart, and little of it remains to be squandered in other directions.

  • This experiment was quite conclusive as to this particular point, and has had very great fruits in other directions.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "other directions" 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:
    other animal; other evidence; other factors; other families; other fish; other folk; other foods; other part; other particulars; other people; other property; other regions; other rocks; other sections; other sins; other small; other souls; other stars; other subspecies; other substance; other than; other worlds; other years; others said; otherwise improved; you all