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    Use "point" in a sentence

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    points


    1. After two years he wasn't so sure she didn't have a point


    2. I'll invite some of the guys I've met there out to point beach sometime


    3. [It was at this point that I realised I had entered a Police Station in error]


    4. Here we see Abraham walked with God to a point where


    5. Jorma was much more familiar with sail than power boats, but had wrestled these pumps into position on more than one big plantation down on Sinbara Point Flats


    6. I want to emphasis this point more, because of the


    7. world around him, in his time to the point it was well


    8. Abraham’s life; to the point where God is still known


    9. If you're not specific you don’t give your brain and the universe an exact point where they need to end up


    10. You don’t have a specific arrival point

    11. Never a strong point of mine, I always used to say that I could ask the whereabouts of a station in five different languages - unfortunately, I couldn’t understand the answer in any of them


    12. on TV raises the fol owing point


    13. [I should point out that, whilst the situations described above are true, they are presented here as an amalgam of the actual events for the sake of simplicity


    14. Would you be listening to what they are telling you from their perspective on life? Would you be being open minded and accepting that your point of view is just that, it’s your point of view


    15. If you are still interested, perhaps I could suggest to you that you read Medical Matters backwards and we might arrive at the same point?


    16. With that and his old place, he could buy a pretty nice place in town, a couple acres on the lagoon just a little ways down the point


    17. Jesus loves sinners, to a point He sat down and had a


    18. He wondered where she was now, playing in the snows of Kugenzglaw? Or did she experience one winter and head right back down to her old place down Sinbara point? What if she'd come up to the Wild Catch last Nightday?


    19. My point is this, if the Holy Ghost is able to


    20. At some point, he made a choice to focus his efforts on helping the community

    21. They turned right onto the tenth floor street of third canal, indoor at that point, and were immediately outside again between third canal and the yacht basin


    22. However, Micah’s paranoia reached the point where he claimed even the bread and water were contaminated


    23. Now, I hope by this point that you can see how achieving your goals is


    24. That’s one reason fall prevention programs aimed at seniors point out the need for appropriate lighting throughout the home to clearly define changes in floor surfaces or levels and to eliminate both shadows and glare


    25. with God to the point where God was and is still know


    26. “What does it do?” she asked him point blank, the look on her face clearly suggesting that she didn’t believe he knew


    27. Their ship was the last of the great daedelus sleepers and traveled so slowly that it reached Narrulla's null point late in the Earth year 2342, a hundred ninety four years from its launch


    28. I will explain this point in two ways


    29. “What are you looking at?” Ackers jumped right to the point


    30. He noticed her staring out of the corner of his eye and looked directly at her, at which point she looked away

    31. It was at that point that Millie dropped the phone


    32. "I get your point," she tried not to hiss even though she should have expected it, "but I can't go up North again


    33. over emphasis the important of this point


    34. At one point, some child noticed him watching and pointed to his window


    35. with you to the point where His favor is manifesting in


    36. She changed the subject to his camp and gushed about that a bit, the whole point being to find out where he got the money


    37. An activity that brings the young, the middle-aged and the seniors together is much better than a group dedicated only to the interests of the senior citizens, from the point of view of building relationships


    38. Big Petey quickly shook his head, and then realized there was no point in hiding it


    39. There was no point


    40. “Good, because there’s no point in worrying about what’s inevitable,” Vinnie concluded

    41. "What is that? A fish?" I point to the black and white tattoo trailing up her bicep


    42. ‘No, I’m not … Dan and I have had some pretty major rows in our time – he’s got as volcanic a temper as I have, but there was no point this time, even I could see that


    43. "So you can stop for fuel anywhere on the outer face of Dromedia point


    44. ‘She must be crazy!’ I said without thinking … he waits as I consider the point


    45. ” Chev hates it when people use his real name, which is the point


    46. Ava had never been south of the Yakhan before, unless you count rounding Dromedia point as south


    47. Each time the Universe completed one rotation around the star, all the gods gathered at that point


    48. If Liz was going to attack Joanna she would have done it in a fit of temper … not shot her in the back … if there is one thing about Liz, it is that she is always straight, if she was going to do something like that, she would just storm in there, point the gun and shoot


    49. It sometimes happens that people ring here trying to get hold of him and it helps if I can point them in the right direction


    50. "We saw it leave," Ava said, and told her what it was like from her point of view














































    1. "Although they are both away from their principal partner," she pointed out


    2. "But you're leaving her up in that house with them now," Jorma pointed out


    3. Kevin pointed to the black and white tattoo trailing up her arm


    4. " She pointed north


    5. I’m the guy from the monitor,” Ackers pointed unnecessarily at the view screen where they had been looking at him as the elevator traveled down, and which was still showing a large image of his face as he spoke


    6. And the reason I brought her along with me,” Johnny pointed at Nancy, who was currently enthralled with wondering what manner of creature or machine was hiding under the desk


    7. She hoisted the babe on her shoulder and pointed at the statue


    8. At one point, some child noticed him watching and pointed to his window


    9. Oh it's not like your spaceship boat down there," she said with awe and pointed with her chin where it rested on the clear water, "but we have fun with that," she pointed at the lake sprite in the cove below


    10. Scar slowly raised his gun and pointed it above his shoulder, aiming it roughly at her face

    11. Red pointed over his shoulder and Big Petey turned to see a new host of soldiers enter the room from the elevator


    12. Stay away from pointed questions about college or career plans; most sixteen-year-olds have not yet decided and resent pestering


    13. “I think it’s going to take all four of them,” he said to himself as he pointed the device at Red while walking quickly toward Johnny and the Chip


    14. Vinnie pointed the remote controlled device at her grenades and pressed a button


    15. Serpent stared at Mouse's pointed face and, for a moment, felt the urge to bite it off


    16. ’ I pointed out ruefully, interrupting her tirade


    17. " He pointed to that line on the ticket


    18. They exchanged a few words after which the old man pointed to a young couple


    19. " Crates, boxes and piles were stacked at least eight feet high on top of the crate he pointed to


    20. " He pointed at the big trunk that came down at a sharper angle than the others

    21. The crime scene was directly on the other side of the wall and as the Garda Liaison officer had pointed out, there was very little to see


    22. ’ I pointed out, standing by the car


    23. He pointed to the wall behind him


    24. He pointed to his big, fat, soft ear and I nodded yet again


    25. Johnny pointed at the tins littering the table and asked, “Cats? Can’t see any of


    26. She pointed at Johnny’s barely touched cup of tea


    27. It was settling right in front of them, with the pointed end toward them


    28. There was a tiger, a 6 pointed star, a large Chinese character on one of the guy's temples, a spider web on the other guy that reached around his neck to the front of his throat


    29. You already pointed out I have plenty of time


    30. There was a tiger, a 6 pointed star, a badly drawn Chinese tattoo meaning 'insane' although not the 'crazy' type of insane, rather just plain medically insane

    31. ’ Molly pointed out sensibly


    32. She could bring the probe in very quietly among the pointed glass turrets of the castle this courtyard was on and swoop down to perch on a windowsill


    33. " He pointed to the switch on the wall and then pulled the shutters down outside the main window


    34. Melinda pointed to the stain in her crotch


    35. Yet another was satisfied to at least be pointed in some direction


    36. " He pointed back down to the end of the long snaking queue


    37. ’ Her husband pointed out


    38. "This is?" He pointed at the sky


    39. "The ground? Down there?" He pointed


    40. The walls were breeze-block, roughly pointed, and the floor of the cell was the same rough concrete as the corridor

    41. I pointed to the foot of the bed and spoke with a weak and pleading voice


    42. Timms’ numbers," he pointed out


    43. Check her out on that gymnastics horse over there," he pointed and watched Jaseem swallow hard


    44. Finally, he pointed out that even Christ has a head who


    45. "But the maneuvering thrusters," Paladin pointed out


    46. She pointed and yelled it over all the reds along with the rest of the crewmen and pilots when she shouted to him


    47. Robbie pointed to his right temple


    48. She had such a smooth and rounded face, her nose was straight, small, and only a bit pointed


    49. Herndon was glad because he wouldn't want panic among the natives, but even when Herndon pointed this out to Governor Pataios, the Governor was uninterested with distant astronomical events and unconvinced it was the work of the Al-Harron


    50. We assumed at first that it was thunder, a spring storm rolling over the Cotswold Hills, perhaps, but then Menachem pointed down towards the road outside our building














































    1. I wrote to the brewery pointing out that their handling of the situation had caused me unnecessary embarrassment


    2. "You had that in your hands many times?" he asked, pointing to the note she was stuffing in her bag


    3. ’ I said, raising a shaking finger and pointing


    4. Lopez professes to be the only ‘Absolutely Organic’ spraying/pest specialist in the United States (at this time, even though he expects more to come out), pointing out that


    5. " he was pointing toward the stuff stored in front of it


    6. "This area is the center of Brazilian settlement," Tahlmute said, pointing at the saddle over the door


    7. guttering was shot to hell, the pointing was in a dreadful state of repair, and all in all


    8. that littered a scarred and stained antique pine kitchen table, and pointing to a rickety


    9. swivels his gun so that it’s pointing at the two soldiers guarding Ricci and Khalid


    10. "Can you type?" she asked, pointing at his flippers

    11. “You!” he shrieked, pointing at the unkempt little accountant as the man


    12. Travis went rigid, his eyes pointing inwards to the gun barrel at his head


    13. "He’s over there," Raleigh said, pointing his chin to the black exosuit slumped over the NAV console


    14. ’ He said, pointing out the holes which are now appearing in the hedge


    15. ’ He announced with a flamboyant gesture, his voice pointing up the capital letters


    16. He whistled once and one of the other guards, one of the men who took part in my methodical beating the previous evening, came and stood in the doorway, pointing his gun at me


    17. "Where's the lawn ornaments?" he asked, pointing with his chin at the performance pad


    18. Alfred couldn't see who he was pointing at


    19. “You!” he shrieked, pointing at the unkempt little accountant as the man slowly emerged again from the rear of the car


    20. ’ Angie said after a moment’s reflection pointing up the road

    21. The woman was shaking her head yes and pointing up


    22. “Or maybe just sleeping” said Catwhiskers pointing in the corner


    23. “Well, here’s everything” said Joe pointing out the kitchen to


    24. “Look above you, they are hanging with the other utensils,” she was pointing above the stove


    25. ’ I said eventually, pointing to a place on the far left of the island … I’m not sure about cardinal points; there are none on this map and I am not sure how the island is orientated


    26. ‘That building over there …’ I said pointing to the churchlike structure


    27. LUIS: (pointing a finger at SAMANTHA) She went out with that boy


    28. ’ Drens had said, pointing to the bay where he intends to land us


    29. ’ I said, pointing out the flaw in his suggestion


    30. pointing to the fact that wrinkles and other age related skin factors are

    31. Not your laws, not your juries, and (pointing the gun at the JUDGE) not you


    32. This time they should be outstretched and pointing the same way as your legs so that you can touch your toes with your fingers


    33. I found myself remembering my holidays from boarding school and how Uncle Pantelis would rattle on, telling tales, pointing things out and singing some moody love song or other, mixing Greek and English in the same sentence


    34. with your legs pointing towards the ceiling


    35. The young man looked at the house that Cyberia was pointing at and replied, “Oh yeah, that’s Stackton House, owned by the fourteenth duke


    36. "There it is", shouted the chairman, pointing at a door with a white chalk cross on it


    37. "No, there it is", shouted his wife, pointing at another door


    38. But God Almighty man,” he said pointing at the dragons, “those are dragons!”


    39. ’ I said, pointing


    40. ” Pointing downward he told her, “We have some business below

    41. Just follow the road up there,” he said pointing the way, “it will take you to it


    42. Whenever I looked into the crowd and caught someone's eye they'd begin muttering and nodding and pointing in my direction and it became more and more clear not just that I was in the wrong place but also that I'd sat in a chair reserved for a guest of honour yet to appear


    43. The more we entered his wilderness home amongst these natural meadows of lushness with their chestnut and cherry trees standing guard, the more he relaxed and began shouting sudden 'whoopas' and slapping his thigh and asking questions of the goats and pointing to things that weren't even there


    44. ' He was pointing to a trickle of muddy water leaking from between two boulders into a mossy puddle moistening the roots of a self-conscious adolescent pine tree


    45. ‘I don’t call this early …’ I protested, pointing out that it’s nearly eleven


    46. 'These books look really advanced,' she said, pointing to the plastic bag


    47. It was a two-hour dive over changing terrain with Tarak pointing out areas of interest


    48. “Perhaps you should follow me in via the cam-con,” he said pointing to a console across the room


    49. 'Tuitions,' I said, pointing to Vidya's room


    50. 'How else do I remove this?' she said, pointing to her bra














































    1. to their points of view - because I hate everybody equally


    2. There are some key points that you need to pay attention to and implement in your business so that you can ensure the further success of your business


    3. losing most of the normal reference points that social event smal talk requires:


    4. “If he put more points in constitution, he wouldn’t have choked to death on the smoke


    5. I recently rang the Hospital to arrange a meeting to clarify a number of points – arranging this transpired to be more difficult than I had ever 35


    6. Theo points a finger


    7. Tom stops a moment and points so he can catch his breath


    8. At points in this tunnel more than two miles of rock are above them


    9. Classes will usually have their good points as well as their bad


    10. Bush points at his head

    11. He points at the pool table with his stick


    12. He lurches at the Trooper, pushes him and grabs his gun simultaneously, points it at his chest


    13. He points back up toward the bluff


    14. John points southwest and Dave steers the boat in that direction


    15. Bush points at the sea


    16. He points up at the sky


    17. The SNACK BAR ATTENDANT -- a middle-aged man from the Subcontinent in a stained white uniform -- languidly shoves a plate toward one customer, takes a drag off his cigarette, points slowly to another student in the gaggle of customers crushing around the counter waiting to be served


    18. “Actually, I lied about the points


    19. He points across the busy street


    20. He cackles, jumps back suddenly, dodging a crack on the sidewalk, points at the sidewalk

    21. Occasionally he stops, points his camera out the window at something, fires off a few shots


    22. Russ points at a group of women queued up for water at a faucet next to the outhouse


    23. He drives on, points out a freshly dug trench


    24. Johnny considered all three points carefully


    25. Others stand at strategic points with automatic weapons at the ready


    26. A soldier, obviously the leader, chatters angrily in Arabic, points his weapon at Ricci, Russ, John and Khalid, indicates with a downward motion that they should get down on their stomachs on the highway


    27. John snatches up the weapon, puts the soldier in a headlock simultaneously and points the gun at his head


    28. kilometre as the arrow points inland


    29. The soldier shakes his head, points at his ear to show he doesn’t understand


    30. Hamo points at a car in front of his, shakes his head in disgust

    31. The cleric points to a chair in front of a


    32. tried to measure the time, but he no longer had any reference points in the world


    33. There are three points of instruction in these


    34. Smith preferred to consider a thought from a familiar set of view points, rolling


    35. From my own brief life, growing up in the security of a loving family and a stable and prosperous society, I had few further points of reference by which I could really measure the guards


    36. In chapter 12, he points out that the gifts ought to be a source of unity, not division because they all came from the same source and the church


    37. At the close of this chapter, he points out that miraculous gifts belong to the infancy of the church and


    38. The membrane ripped and came apart in a hundred places at once and receded from all points simultaneously


    39. With one hand resting lightly on my waist, he points out where The Laurels lies – oh yes, I can just see the roof of the hall from here


    40. There were no external points of reference in my life any more I felt as though I was the dumb-struck aboriginal grasping desperately for meaning as the explorers walked up the beach, taking their first colonial steps towards empire

    41. As it was he lost a precious hour in that welder-bot's circular help system figuring out its fine points


    42. It was only fifty eight miles to one of the points on the far side, but the land is not rugged in this region


    43. One kilometre as the arrow points inland


    44. It was a casual sail between choke points, and ships going by on the uphill side of the sandbar could hail them and chide them on their misfortune


    45. Was it really twenty years that he had sat on a mountain? Twenty years? He tried to measure the time, but he no longer had any reference points in the world below


    46. Smith preferred to consider a thought from a familiar set of view points, rolling it across the heavens like thunder, looking at all those aspects of silence and darkness that reinforced the heavens as imagined by a responsible God


    47. It is during as far as offering fruit and energy drinks in between and in some of the after-run socialising that I get some of the best addition, had cooling points that sprinkled you with cold water advice from strangers that I see on the running trail as they droplets as you ran through a tunnel


    48. The more man reaches for material things on the outside, the more he points out spiritual bankruptcy on the inside


    49. She found beams radiating to all points of the compass from here, and some with much more traffic than the one she had been studying


    50. Herod added to the Temple to win some points with the Jews, who pretty much hated him














































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    Synonyms for "point"

    breaker point distributor point point power point gunpoint spot pointedness detail item decimal point percentage point head full point full stop period stop compass point peak tip dot degree level stage point in time repoint sharpen taper bespeak betoken indicate signal designate show aim direct place target charge luff channelise channelize guide maneuver manoeuver manoeuvre steer orient validity cogency effectiveness force punch article element particular thing instant juncture moment duration apex prong barb cusp prick spike speck mote hint denote imply suggest

    "point" definitions

    a geometric element that has position but no extension


    the precise location of something; a spatially limited location


    a brief version of the essential meaning of something


    an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole


    a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process


    an instant of time


    the object of an activity


    a V shape


    a very small circular shape


    the unit of counting in scoring a game or contest


    a promontory extending out into a large body of water


    a distinct part that can be specified separately in a group of things that could be enumerated on a list


    a style in speech or writing that arrests attention and has a penetrating or convincing quality or effect


    an outstanding characteristic


    sharp end


    any of 32 horizontal directions indicated on the card of a compass


    a linear unit used to measure the size of type; approximately 1/72 inch


    one percent of the total principal of a loan; it is paid at the time the loan is made and is independent of the interest on the loan


    a punctuation mark (.) placed at the end of a declarative sentence to indicate a full stop or after abbreviations


    a V-shaped mark at one end of an arrow pointer


    the dot at the left of a decimal fraction


    the property of a shape that tapers to a sharp tip


    a distinguishing or individuating characteristic


    the gun muzzle's direction


    a wall socket


    a contact in the distributor; as the rotor turns its projecting arm contacts them and current flows to the spark plugs


    indicate a place, direction, person, or thing; either spatially or figuratively


    be oriented


    direct into a position for use


    direct the course; determine the direction of travelling


    be a signal for or a symptom of


    sail close to the wind


    mark (Hebrew words) with diacritics


    mark with diacritics


    mark (a psalm text) to indicate the points at which the music changes


    be positionable in a specified manner


    intend (something) to move towards a certain goal


    indicate the presence of (game) by standing and pointing with the muzzle


    give a point to


    repair the joints of bricks