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Example sentences for "opposite direction"

  • They pursued an opposite direction, and, in the shade of a wood which before they had never traversed, they at length paused.

  • Grasping the coat skirts of her spouse, she pulled him back with no scrupulous hand, and effectually baffled his designs by bringing him down, though in an opposite direction, to the same level with the youth.

  • In a few minutes after, Martin approached from an opposite direction, accompanied by Mr. Sant and Mr. Elliott; he was also warmly greeted.

  • And if your theoretical predictions are not accomplished, is not this the reason, that alongside the economic laws which you invoke, there are other laws which act in an opposite direction, and of which you say nothing.

  • Let them turn round at my call, and take an opposite direction, and universal happiness will then prevail.

  • The left hand is raised to turn to the near or left side, and the right hand to turn in an opposite direction.

  • They may not discover this retreat, for I pretended to go off in an opposite direction.

  • It is believed that these phantom washerwomen are women condemned to wash their mortuary sheets during whole centuries; but that when they find some mortal to wring in an opposite direction, they are delivered.

  • Here we left John, and he, continuing on his way up the mountain road in an opposite direction from us and round a turn, disappeared almost as a fairy might.

  • And it was necessary for those who aided in wringing the sheets to turn in the same direction as the washerwomen; for if by misfortune the assistant turned in an opposite direction, he had his arms wrung in an instant.

  • He very inaccurately adds, that both are always in an opposite direction.

  • And in fact, the restoration of a depreciated currency is accompanied by crises entirely similar to those which followed its first decline; only they are in an opposite direction.

  • I took aim, and pulled trigger; but, instead of waiting to see the effect of my shot, I ran right off in an opposite direction.

  • The bird diverged from its course, and after passing the snake, turned and swooped again from the opposite direction.

  • As soon as he touched terra firma again, he rose to his feet, and ran with all his might in an opposite direction.

  • They now observed another track going from the hole in an opposite direction, which showed that the creature had climbed up in the same way.

  • The pressure of the dead centre against the end of the work considered individually, is in a direction to bend the lathe shears upward, but the weight of the work itself acts in an opposite direction.

  • If the direction of rotation of the three wheels was reversed, the same shape of curves would be produced, but they would lie in an opposite direction, and would, therefore, be suitable for the other sides of the teeth.

  • You will begin your columns from the red lines in the middle, and not from the sides of the drawer; thus the heads of those on one side of it will be in an opposite direction to those on the other.

  • When this orifice is opened, the parts that are above it are drawn back in an opposite direction, so that the five last segments of the abdomen become entirely empty, and form a chamber to receive the water that enters by it.

  • Mr Brand had gone in an opposite direction, but, after waiting some time, Ben Yool came in.

  • Away they galloped in an opposite direction to which he was going, till their ropes were at their fullest tension, and then their horses drew up, planting their feet firmly on the ground and dragging against the astonished animal.

  • Following the impulse of the moment, we seized our guns and the birds we had shot, and leaping off the rock, began to run in an opposite direction to that which the bulls had taken.

  • On stimulation of the whole wire, the current of response will now be found to flow in an opposite direction--i.

  • Conversely, when B is stimulated, the action current flows round the circuit in an opposite direction.

  • We may express this in a different way by saying that a 'current of action' was produced in response to stimulus, and acted in an opposite direction to the current of injury (fig.

  • Stimulation of B will give rise to a current in an opposite direction.

  • Upon these Mek Nimmur had a knack of pouncing unexpectedly, when he was supposed to be a hundred miles in an opposite direction.

  • I called my men, and followed for a few hundred yards upon his track, but as this was directly in an opposite direction to that of my camp I was forced to give up the hunt.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "opposite direction" 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:
    but they were all; court favour; double convex; ever thou; fair child; here referred; house plant; long cruise; make his; opposite ends; opposite leaves; opposite page; opposite side; opposite sides; opposite the; order administrative; parcel post; plain omelet; please myself; sign shall; social phenomena; sovereign prince; still another; three lions; transparent body; would naturally