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Example sentences for "towards the"

  • If it should prove to be nearly parallel with the stream, I shall know it is towards the king's house they are working.

  • It led her through certain narrow passages towards the kitchen, turning aside ere she reached it, and guiding her to a door which communicated with a small back yard.

  • I gripped a gloved and mittened hand which drew me towards the door.

  • From them I got a chit to the local French authorities, and, as soon as we came out of the line, towards the end of December, I made straight for the country town of Douvecourt.

  • The air's a big lottery,' and Archie turned a dirty face skyward where two of our planes were moving very high towards the east.

  • I now continued my journey as before, towards the north.

  • As I was returning, towards the evening, I overtook the old man, who was wending in the same direction.

  • Towards the evening of the next day he rose and went, with hardly any strength left, to a public-house.

  • To meet together all must go towards the light.

  • The musicians kept playing the same mazurka tunes over and over again in desperate exhaustion--you know what it is towards the end of a ball.

  • The boy told him, and Volgin went on towards the house, thinking how he would chaff Nicholas Petrovich about the deplorable condition of the village schools in spite of all his efforts.

  • Towards the end of the month (I can't be particular to a day) a year will have elapsed from the time when we believe the jewel to have been pledged.

  • Towards the end of last June," I answered, "as well as I can reckon it.

  • To the northwest, Kenia reared his mighty head, and we could trace the Tana river curling like a silver snake almost from his feet, and far away beyond us towards the ocean.

  • Towards the evening of the second day we judged ourselves about eight miles from Kurtz's station.

  • Finally I descended the hill, obliquely, towards the trees I had seen.

  • But he quickly gained his feet again, and keeping underneath a hedge with his body bent, went running on towards the road.

  • Jonas glanced at the attendant whose back was towards him, and made a clumsy motion with his bound hands towards the door.

  • You must look for such folk here,' knocking his stick upon the ground, 'or yonder in the bush, towards the north.

  • The Green lay at the extremity of the village, and from it the road branched off in two directions, one leading farther up the hill by the church, and the other winding gently down towards the valley.

  • So he took up the basket of currants once more, and they went on towards the house.

  • The peasant, laughing, answered not a word, But left the fool and pricked towards the ford.

  • Towards the end of the week, one afternoon, as Presley was returning from his club, he came suddenly face to face with Minna upon a street corner.

  • Yes, yes, Dyke had been there not half an hour since, had held them up, taken a horse and galloped to the northeast, towards the foothills at the headwaters of Broderson Creek.

  • I don't know,' said Mistress Affery, with her disengaged left hand extended towards the visitor.

  • Towards the Marshal, who was a Marshal of many years' standing, and with whom he had never had any previous difference, Mr Dorrit comported himself with severity.

  • Clennam lounged into the road, towards the railing; and the man passed at a quick swing, with the end of his cloak thrown over his shoulder, singing a scrap of a French song.

  • After that knock they heard a movement below, and somebody shuffling up towards the door.

  • Leaving the hermitage, they pushed on towards the inn, and a little farther they came upon a youth who was pacing along in front of them at no great speed, so that they overtook him.

  • A variety of feelings thus led me towards the beach, where I lay flat on my face in a hollow within six feet of the track that led to the pavilion.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "towards the" 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:
    angry voice; brave heart; cook five; done nothing; electric spark; great curiosity; laws were; little conversation; monastic vows; mortality from; municipal suffrage; organic whole; poor mother; presided over; royal proclamation; separate species; sexual selection; still later; strong smell; towards heaven; towards morning; towards the; towards them; unit divided; you said just now