DIRECTION in a Sentence

Learn DIRECTION from example sentences, some of them are from classic books. These examples are selected from a corpus with 300,000 sentences, including classic works and current mainstream media. Some sentences also link to their contexts.

For DIRECTION, below is one of 420 sentences:
Then I thought there was some chance of water in this direction, so I heaved you over my shoulder and we tramped it together.

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 Meanings and Examples of DIRECTION
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
direction
 n.  a line leading to a place or point
 n.  the guidance of someone or something.
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  "We came here on business," said Stamford, sitting down on a high three-legged stool, and pushing another one in my direction with his foot.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER I. MR. SHERLOCK HOLMES
2  Sherlock Holmes rose softly and moved his chair in the direction of the door.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART I: CHAPTER V. OUR ADVERTISEMENT BRINGS A VISITOR
3  Then I thought there was some chance of water in this direction, so I heaved you over my shoulder and we tramped it together.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN
4  In every direction the great snow-capped peaks hemmed them in, peeping over each other's shoulders to the far horizon.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context  Highlight   In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS
5  He gave it as his opinion that Snowball had probably come from the direction of Foxwood Farm.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VI
6  Wistful glances were sent in the direction of Foxwood.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
7  And the animals heard, from the direction of the farm buildings, the solemn booming of a gun.
Animal Farm By George Orwell
Context  Highlight   In Chapter VIII
8  Giles, nicking his chair into its notch, turned too, in the other direction.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 7
9  She must go on; and she turned in the direction of the stable.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
10  I take under my protection and direction the purity and security of all Her Majesty's minions; in all parts of her dominions; insist that they obey the laws of God and Man.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 10
11  "And we mustn't, my brother says, thank the author," Mrs. Swithin repeated, looking in the direction of Miss La Trobe.
Between the Acts By Virginia Woolf
Context  Highlight   In Unit 12
12  And it chanced that the direction of my scientific studies, which led wholly toward the mystic and the transcendental, re-acted and shed a strong light on this consciousness of the perennial war among my members.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
13  I, for my part, from the nature of my life, advanced infallibly in one direction and in one direction only.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis Stevenson
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER HENRY JEKYLL'S FULL STATEMENT OF THE CASE
14  Please to turn your humble eye in My direction.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1: CHAPTER XI
15  Stephen, whose way had been in the contrary direction, turned about, and betook himself as in duty bound, to the red brick castle of the giant Bounderby.
Hard Times By Charles Dickens
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 2: CHAPTER IV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  The Government deserves our wholehearted support for having taken a step in this direction.
17  I couldn't help but notice the pointed remarks slung in my direction.
18  The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
19  The boat drifted along, with the child asleep inside it and no one guiding its direction.
20  I was proceeding along the High Street in a northerly direction.
21  I'm afraid I haven't got a very good sense of direction, so I easily get lost.
22  Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
23  Love doesn't consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
24  Success, it is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.
25  He had a poor sense of direction and soon got lost.
26  They hit a truck coming in the opposite direction.
27  The climber, get past the footprints are unfortunately, lost to forward direction is very dangerous.
28  He drove in the direction of the swimming pool.
29  Happiness is just on my hands, and even lost sense of direction, but still not afraid.
30  I lost all sense of direction.