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Example sentences for "that direction"

  • But I dared not think further in that direction.

  • I ran up the stream toward some rocky hills I saw in that direction, which were not far off.

  • The beings most like you are in that direction.

  • I touched Holmes on the arm, and he turned his masked face in that direction.

  • All the indications seem to me to point in that direction.

  • The lady's allusions to her past and her refusal to take her husband into her confidence both pointed in that direction.

  • This is the chance of my lifetime in that direction.

  • He now turned his thoughts in that direction, and prepared for the journey.

  • Anxious for information on the subject, Captain Bonneville dispatched two hunters to beat up the country in that direction.

  • It did not appear that Fitzpatrick had intended to hunt in that direction.

  • Finally, there are traces, in the early history of the ancient civilized peoples, of the form of social organization with which savage totemism is found associated.

  • The natural attraction of human beings for one another and the necessity of providing effective means of defense against enemies have led men to associate themselves together in clans and tribes.

  • I remembered the cabinet, and looked swiftly in that direction.

  • Alan cast a quick, sidelong glance in that direction, and his brows contracted in an irritable frown.

  • But it was idle to look in that direction.

  • My line won't be novels; I have failed in that direction, I'm not cut out for the work.

  • Disagreeable stories were whispered concerning her earlier life, and probably the metaphysician did not care to look back in that direction.

  • He immediately despatched a small party under Hernando de Soto in that direction, to reconnoitre the ground, and bring him intelligence of the actual state of things, at Zaran, where he would halt until his officer's return.

  • As he progressed the passage grew a very little wider in that direction, and that fact gave rise to the thought that in case of a necessary and hurried exit he would do best by working toward the patio.

  • A great flare extended over the brake in that direction.

  • Moreover, at this moment Pierre was supported in his design and prevented from renouncing it by what he had already done in that direction.

  • He looked in that direction, but though the columns would have been visible quite far off, they were not to be seen.

  • That movement from the Nizhni to the Ryazan, Tula, and Kaluga roads was so natural that even the Russian marauders moved in that direction, and demands were sent from Petersburg for Kutuzov to take his army that way.

  • Yes, yonder; but you cannot get to it in that direction, the river lies between.

  • I turned my eyes in that direction, but saw nothing.

  • I could not say that I had any particular business in that direction, but what could I do were I to turn back?

  • The necessity of protecting our left was most apparent, and the next day the drifting in that direction was to be continued.

  • Soon after returning to the crest and getting snugly fixed in the rifle-pits, my attention was called to our left, the high ground we occupied affording me in that direction an unobstructed view.

  • The way out of court lay in that direction, and Jerry followed him, all eyes, ears, and spikes.

  • Most of the Abyssinian uplands have a decided slope to the north-west, so that nearly all the large rivers find their way in that direction to the Nile.

  • The danger lay in the suddenly changed situation in that direction; as General Greene, instead of following Cornwallis to the coast, boldly pushed down towards Camden and Charleston, S.

  • We hurried in that direction to see what was doing.

  • Rushing with him in her arms towards the staircase, she found the stair had fallen--cutting off all further progress in that direction.

  • I doubt if sufficient weight was given to the fact that, even when he was not so turning his mind it strayed in that direction, whence, if any object cast its reflected rays on his retina, those rays never failed to reach his mind also.

  • But there Gibbie feared a certain precipitous spot; and, besides, there was no path in that direction.

  • Donal for what he counted some of his tendencies in that direction, he began instantly to comfort himself with the old belief that all things of the darkness flee from the crowing of the cock.

  • But he did not lead her far in that direction; he turned to the left up the mountain.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that 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:
    better tell; cooking utensils; length ahead; that any; that are; that class; that could; that date; that first; that has; that island; that kind; that land; that matter; that men; that name; that nature; that occasion; that particular; that party; that shall; that she; that subject; that that; that work; that would