Home
Idioms
Top 1000 Words
Top 5000 Words


Example sentences for "that way"

  • I never reveal my secrets myself, but I am exceedingly fond of their being guessed, because in that way I can always disavow them upon occasion.

  • I confess it was partly to distract my thoughts that I busied myself in that way.

  • The oxen understand, though; and if you were to yoke as many as twenty they still wouldn't budge so long as the Ossetes shouted in that way of theirs.

  • In that way he has formerly cured colds, and in that way he will cure the cold from which he is suffering now.

  • It's a burning shame to speak of my husband in that way!

  • Oh no, not mannish; but so almighty womanish that 'tis getting on that way sometimes.

  • But--but mind you don't speak to me again in that way, or in any other, unless I speak to you.

  • Four, as if you were threshing--in that way.

  • I saw, when it was too late, that scandal might seize hold of me for meeting him alone in that way.

  • When it stormed before my bread was baked, I fixed a few boards over the fire, and sat under them to watch my loaf, and passed some pleasant hours in that way.

  • That way I looked between and over the near green hills to some distant and higher ones in the horizon, tinged with blue.

  • Very ungentlemanly behaviour,’ thought little Mrs. Tibbs, ‘to talk in that way.

  • It was delightful to bowl over the country in that way.

  • Now, I don't choose to answer it in that way, for I cannot honestly answer it in that way.

  • I have some ability, I believe, in that way; and the obligation, if any, will most likely be on his side and not mine.

  • Glad I could get the board to put it that way.

  • If you must be temperamental, why can't you be that way by yourself?

  • Bea would like to be that way--kind of quiet, so nobody would get fresh.

  • It means lowering the value of the stone, and cheating the rogues in that way!

  • The Colonel was not to be deluded in that way.

  • For I have often times passed and ridden that way, with good company of many lords.

  • And whoso goeth by Pisa, if that men list to go that way, there is an arm of the sea, where that men go to other havens in those marches.

  • And men pass by that way, by a place that was wont to be a great city, and a great land; and the city was clept Cathailye, the which city and land was lost through folly of a young man.

  • It needeth not to tell you the names of the cities, nor of the towns that be in that way, for the way is common, and it is known of many nations.

  • And in that way is the tomb of Rachel, that was Joseph's mother, the patriarch; and she died anon after that she was delivered of her son Benjamin.

  • He wrote a beautiful hand, became soon perfect in English, was quick at figures; and Lingard made him useful in that way.

  • In that way, and impelled by that motive, Almayer had hated many and various persons at various times.

  • How could I know that he could do harm in that way?

  • I joined my wail to theirs, loud and bitter; but Joseph asked what we could be thinking of to roar in that way over a saint in heaven.

  • If you had remembered that Hareton was your cousin as much as Master Heathcliff, you would have felt how improper it was to behave in that way.

  • I thought you did not know me, or you wouldn't have spoken in that way.

  • They really did howl out something in that way.

  • They all along the earth extended lay Save one, that sudden rais'd himself to sit, Soon as that way he saw us pass.

  • Come down, and undo the shop window, that I may get in that way.

  • He so contrived it, and said it in that way that it appeared to have been forced from him, and its effect was marvellous.

  • If he has any soul at all, sir, it must be such a very small one, that it don't signify what he does or doesn't in that way.

  • They were so long, that although he knew it had been settled they should come that way, he had a misgiving they must have changed their plans and taken some other route.

  • It was so pretty to have her clinging to me in that way, hiding her face, and to know that she was not crying in sorrow but in a little glow of joy, and pride, and hope, that I would not help her just yet.

  • My little woman, why do you look at me in that way?

  • To confess in that way that he IS a little slow for human life.

  • My little woman being engaged in that way made it easier for me to step round in a quiet manner.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "that way" 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:
    cold smile; dearest child; natural causation; that after; that being; that city; that class; that end; that had; that has; that isn; that makes; that men; that might; that must; that nation; that now; that people; that she; that time; that were; that which; that work; three wheels; what love; without saying