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 Meanings and Examples of WAY
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way
 n.  a route, direction, or path; the course traveled from one place to another
 n.  the method about how something is done or how it happens
Classic Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
1  'Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI. Pig and Pepper
2  But I knowed it would be that way when tha saw him.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  She didn't like the way he had of talking about dying.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
4  She felt as if she would like this thing to be settled one way or the other.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIV
5  "You never kiss a person in that way," she said when she lifted her head.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
6  The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VIII. The Queen's Croquet-Ground
7  Alice led the way, and the whole party swam to the shore.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland By Lewis Carroll
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER II. The Pool of Tears
8  He had a way of doing that which she could not bear.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XVI
9  "She's got a way with her, has Susan," she went on quite volubly.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
10  "Well, she's got a way of saying things," ended Mrs. Medlock, much pleased.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
11  "It was the robin who showed me the way," she protested obstinately.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXI
12  Ben Weatherstaff went his way forgetting rheumatics.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
13  Perhaps that is the first baby way to get it.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
14  I've thought of a way to help 'em.'
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIV
15  I lost my way when I was coming back and I stopped at the end of your corridor.
The Secret Garden By Frances Hodgson Burnett
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
Example Sentence: (210 in 15 pages)
16  He did argue in a general way that the president can't be trusted.
17  He denied that the article had been in any way prurient.
18  It is as well to know which way the wind blows.
19  Better ask twice than lose you way once.
20  Better to ask the way than go astray.
21  The only way to achieve the impossible is to believe that it is possible.
22  If competition is the best way to achieve it, then, fine.
23  The best way to avoid pregnancy is total abstinence from sex.
24  The soldier wormed his way toward the enemy's lines.
25  We had to pick our way along the muddy track.
26  The tribe's traditional way of life is under threat.
27  The traditional way of life has all but disappeared.
28  Passenger ships are a costly way to travel.
29  The train is a quick and painless way to travel.
30  It's dreadful the way they treat their staff.