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Example sentences for "this point"

  • Now the following considerations seem to me at this point worthy of note.

  • At this point we stopped to shoot a rattlesnake.

  • In his inaugural address, he reassures the south on this point.

  • Leaving out of sight, for a moment, grave facts, to this point, I will state one or two, which illustrate a very interesting feature of American character as well as American prejudice.

  • His eye fell upon his daughter at this point, and he stopped for a moment to kiss her, and to pat her head.

  • Arthur Clennam was a retiring man, with a sense of many deficiencies; and he so exalted the merits of the beautiful Minnie in his mind, and depressed his own, that when he pinned himself to this point, his hopes began to fail him.

  • If the playfulness of Monsieur Rigaud were at all expressed by his smile at this point, the relations of Madame Rigaud might have said that they would have much preferred his correcting that unfortunate woman seriously.

  • The Father of the Marshalsea always lifted up his eyebrows at this point, and became amiably distraught and smilingly absent in mind.

  • At this point it is like a sea whose deep swales and long, rolling swells have been caught in mid-movement and frozen solid; but further up it is broken up into wildly tossing billows of ice.

  • Up to this point we had been in the heart of the William Tell region.

  • The bends of the rivers are such at this point as to almost form an island, scarcely above water at that stage of the river.

  • Skirmishers thirty feet apart could have maintained either line at this point.

  • I remained at this point, therefore, a few days longer than I otherwise should have done, in order to meet him on his arrival.

  • At this point I saw a very comfortable-looking white-haired gentleman seated at the front of his house, a little distance from the road.

  • It was at this point, probably, where the first idea of a "Freedman's Bureau" took its origin.

  • But, then, to come back to this point,--we were on this liberation business.

  • He was kept well dressed, for St. Clare was fastidiously particular on this point.

  • Since the maximum aperture of the pencils issuing from O is the angle u subtended by the entrance pupil at this point, the magnitude of the aberration will be determined by the position and diameter of the entrance pupil.

  • At this point we might well make more than a passing reference to St Paul (Rom.

  • It was fortunate that the conversation terminated at this point, or Mr. Bumble, who had bowed himself to within six inches of the ladder, would infallibly have pitched headlong into the room below.

  • At this point of the inquiry, Oliver raised his head; and, looking round with imploring eyes, murmured a feeble prayer for a draught of water.

  • At this point of the narrative the cook turned pale, and asked the housemaid to shut the door: who asked Brittles, who asked the tinker, who pretended not to hear.

  • This appears to be above the balloon, inasmuch as the lines of sight of the two observers and B converge at this point.

  • In fact some six months after the outbreak of war there was an appreciable lack of precision on this point in French military.

  • This point may be appreciated more easily by reference to the accompanying diagram.

  • Without consulting Mr. Vholes on this point, I took my guardian aside to propose it, while Mr. Vholes gauntly stalked to the fire and warmed his funeral gloves.

  • At this point of his journey Christian heard voices, and found that they proceeded from a company of men and women who were traversing a hollow ahead of him, the tops only of their heads being visible.

  • At this point in their experience, however, an incident helped her.

  • Venn was not mistaken in supposing that any person who had sunk for the last time would be washed down to this point, for when they had examined to about halfway across something impeded their thrust.

  • But at this point I stopped short, and in great confusion, indeed.

  • But at this point a strange thing happened.

  • But on this point I was not satisfied at all.

  • But as a descriptive term to characterise the prevailing methods of industry, as well as to indicate the trend of industrial development at this point in economic evolution, the term "quasi-peaceable" seems preferable.

  • In the communities of the Western culture, this point is at present found among the lower middle class.

  • Some details of this traditional scheme of life, bearing on this point, have been noticed in earlier chapters under the head of leisure, and further details will be shown in later chapters.

  • It is at this point, where the beautiful and the honorific meet and blend, that a discrimination between serviceability and wastefulness is most difficult in any concrete case.

  • Note how he returns again and again to this point.

  • At this point, a table of dates may be found useful.

  • It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.

  • Those who may think that Sun Tzu is over-emphatic on this point would do well to read Col.

  • Duane perceived at a glance the futility of his trying to cross at this point.

  • As good luck would have it, he came to higher ground where there was less mesquite, and therefore not such impenetrable darkness; and at this point he came to where the road split.

  • Further conjecture on this point, however, was interrupted by a crashing in the willows and the rapid patter of feet.

  • A special effort has been made to impress the girls with correct ideas on this point, and in almost every case, these talks have resulted in an apology from the girl for her behavior.

  • This point is one of the first importance.

  • I have elsewhere rather full tentative outlines by way of suggestion, and limit myself at this point to more general discussion.

  • This point of view is expressed in the following paper on Personal work with children, read by Miss Rosina Gymer before the Ohio Library Association annual meeting in 1905.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "this point" 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:
    absence from; certain knowledge; solid silver; this action; this animal; this arrangement; this beautiful; this bird; this book; this chapter; this county; this day; this direction; this earth; this general; this here; this little; this man; this method; this name; this office; this regard; this report; this spot; this substance; this they