TOWARD in a Sentence

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1. Get on the interstate leading toward Miami.
2. The ship was laid on toward a small island.
3. The plane banked, and circled back toward us.
4. The ship ploughed through the sea toward port.
5. Without answering he moved away toward the kitchen.

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 Meanings and Examples of TOWARD
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
toward
 prep.  in the direction of
 a.  in progress
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  Opposite the Varnum gate, where the road fell away toward the Corbury valley, the church reared its slim white steeple and narrow peristyle.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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2  The young man, skirting the side of the building, went down the slope toward the basement door.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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3  "Hold on a minute while I unhitch the colt," Denis called to her, springing toward the shed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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4  He saw Eady, after a moment, jump from the cutter and go toward the girl with the reins over one arm.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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5  A moment later he heard the jingle of departing sleigh bells and discerned a figure advancing alone toward the empty expanse of snow before the church.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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6  To-night the pressure of accumulated misgivings sent the scale drooping toward despair, and her indifference was the more chilling after the flush of joy into which she had plunged him by dismissing Denis Eady.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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7  Without answering he moved away toward the kitchen.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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8  It was only when she drew toward her last illness, and his cousin Zenobia Pierce came over from the next valley to help him nurse her, that human speech was heard again in the house.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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9  She sat silent, her hands clasped on her work, and it seemed to him that a warm current flowed toward him along the strip of stuff that still lay unrolled between them.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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10  When he raised himself again he saw that she was dragging toward the stove the old soap-box lined with carpet in which the cat made its bed.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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11  There was more wet in the air and it seemed likely to both men that the weather would "milden" toward afternoon and make the going safer.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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12  He had driven his load half-way to the village when Jotham Powell overtook him, urging the reluctant sorrel toward the Flats.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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13  "I hope Zeena ain't broken anything she sets store by," she called after him as he turned the greys toward home.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VI
14  "I'll go out and take a look around," he said, going toward the passage to get his lantern.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In VII
15  He started down the road toward their house, but at the end of a few yards he pulled up sharply, the blood in his face.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
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Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  McKay walked slowly toward this screen, feeling a growing tenseness.
17  As for me, if I had fifty-three minutes to spend as I liked, I should walk at my leisure toward a spring of fresh water.
18  With the old wish that is ever new,may the greeting do its share toward making your Christmas a pleasant one.
19  The tiny rocket is attached to the spacecraft and is designed to propel it toward Mars.
20  I pass through the summer which the winter and the equator are filled with joy rush toward you to like.
21  Hoisting my suitcase on to my shoulder, I turned and headed toward my hotel.
22  Love and knowledge, so far as they were possible, led upward toward the heavens.
23  The ship ploughed through the sea toward port.
24  Each person did his bit toward getting the meal on the table.
25  Get on the interstate leading toward Miami.
26  Suddenly I saw a tall figure approaching toward the policeman.
27  The hunter had to feign death when he suddenly found out that a bear was coming toward him.
28  This train would stop twice more in the suburbs before rolling southeast toward Munich.
29  The ship was laid on toward a small island.
30  The plane banked, and circled back toward us.