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Example sentences for "point where"

  • Its shore is craggy and precipitous, but there was a point where it seemed possible to land, nor was it too much to fancy that there might be a rustic habitation among the shrubbery of this rugged spot.

  • Close beside the hotel of Inversnaid is the waterfall; all night, my room being on that side of the house, I had heard its voice, and now I ascended beside it to a point where it is crossed by a wooden bridge.

  • By and by we came to the banks of the Tweed, at a point where there is a ferry.

  • And by degrees Thorwaldsen reached a point where he could keep right along at his task and receive his friends at the same time.

  • He had proceeded for some little distance and had about reached a point where he judged he would find the street which led up from the city gate when, at an intersection of two streets, his nostrils caught the scent spoor of the girl.

  • Already he had reached a point where he could do little more than maintain a secure footing, and it was this moment that Tarzan chose to charge.

  • A light wind was moving through the jungle aisles, and it wafted down now to the nostrils of the eager carnivore the strong scent spoor of the deer, exciting his already avid appetite to a point where it became a gnawing pain.

  • If their puritanism is carried to a point where it absolutely repels, it then has its beneficent use, teaching by antithesis.

  • When the man had evolved to a point where he loved one woman with an absorbing love, the rosy light of dawn appeared in the East, the Dark Ages sank into oblivion, and Civilization kicked off the covers and cooed in the cradle.

  • It is a condition of unstable equilibrium constantly tending by its very nature to a point where dissolution is apparently inevitable.

  • But since you have chosen to attack at a point where I am in authority, I shan't hesitate to strike back.

  • Carhart led his men nearly two miles north, then forded the stream at a point where it ran wide and shallow.

  • I yelled to Charlie to stop, but he'd got to a point where he couldn't hear anything.

  • I climbed cautiously down the icy cataract till I reached a point where hand-holds were not essential to maintain the balance, and waited with my face almost against the ice till Slingsby joined me.

  • Croz had hoped to hit this at a point where it was partially choked, but he was disappointed, as the chasm yawned below us, entirely unbridged.

  • Evidently, they had tripped and been shot down an almost perpendicular slope of ice to a point where it joined the border of the upper glacier.

  • The great crowd which the "Fremersberg" had called out was another evidence that it was low-grade music; for only the few are educated up to a point where high-grade music gives pleasure.

  • Warren had not yet reached the point where he was to halt, when he discovered the enemy near by.

  • He was to assault the left flank of the Confederate infantry at a point where I knew Pickett's intrenchments were refused, almost at right angles with the White Oak road.

  • Cosden had put into words a fact which until then Huntington had stubbornly refused to acknowledge: he had actually reached a point where he heartily disapproved of his friend.

  • Now, at forty-five, he had reached a point where he found it difficult to distinguish between his working and his leisure hours.

  • By the time he entered college this sense had assumed exaggerated proportions, and he had reached a point where he was looking for injustices, and was quick to resent them.

  • Here you have been working desperately to lead him to a point where he would let you put the ball and chain on him, and then, for some silly little reason, you let him get away from you!

  • Though I was before so proud that I could not accept my mother's teaching, I was at a point where I would have accepted anything.

  • But he had already stood severe tests, and had now arrived at a point where he had no inclination whatever to gamble and felt no temptation to procure money in that way or from that source.

  • He tried his level best, as he expresses it, to work himself up to a point where he could feel that he was converted, a not rare, but very wrong, view of this solemn matter.

  • Our pursuit of Goethe's way of observing the life of the plant has brought us to a point where it becomes possible to rectify a widespread error concerning his position as an evolutionary theorist.

  • Our observations have reached a point where we may consider that stage in the life cycle of the single plant where, by means of the process of pollination, the seed acquires the capacity to produce out of itself a new example of the species.

  • Our discussion has reached a point where we are able to answer a question which first arose in the course of our study of the four ethers, and which arises here anew.

  • The moment Mark saw the canvas come in, he cried out 'all is well,' and descended swiftly from the Peak, to hasten to a point where he could give the necessary attentions to the movements of Waally and his fleet.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "point where" 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:
    additional proof; already shown; but was; each front; iron girders; loaf sugar; man has; military service; ordinary occasions; people came; point lace; point out; pointed arch; pointed architecture; pointed beard; pointed out; pointed star; pointed stars; pointed wings; pointing finger; pointing upward; proper object; represent the; sixty millions; steam fire; votive offerings