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direction Examples

EN[dəˈɹɛk.ʃən] [dɪˈɹɛk.ʃən] [daɪˈɹɛk.ʃən] [-ɛkʃən]
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    Examples of direction in a Sentence

  • Examples of direction
    1. I would guess it points up the difference between the involuntary chunder where you cannot choose the time place or direction, and the self-induced chunder which facilitates further consumption of alcohol after your theoretical limit is reached.
    2. It was April 22, 1831, and a young man was walking down Whitehall in the direction of Parliament Street. He wore shepherd's plaid trousers and the swallow-tail coat of the day, with a figured muslin cravat wound about his wide-spread collar.
    3. Accordingly, the hundred senators divided the government among themselves, ten decuries being formed, and the individual members who were to have the chief direction of affairs being chosen into each decury.
    4. Keep going in the same direction. ‎
    5. The trombonist looked to the bandleader for direction. ‎
    6. The screenplay was good, but the direction was weak. ‎
    7. Drill a small hole to start the screw in the right direction.
    8. In the comparatively early state of human advancement in which we now live, a person cannot indeed feel that entireness of sympathy with all others, which would make any real discordance in the general direction of their conduct in life impossible [ … ] .
  • Examples of directions
    1. The step-by-step directions walked me through the assembly, but identifying the parts was still hard. ‎
    2. A stranger came up and asked me for directions.
    3. He yelled directions to the party from the car.
    4. I can't understand these directions to building this doghouse because they're so poorly written. The hell with it!
    5. I'm going to ask this lady for directions.
    6. The small town was belted by cornfields in all directions.
    7. Blame came from all directions.
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