Sentence examples for counter toward from inspiring English sources

She slid the book across the counter toward me.

Vernon chose a time when the lunch trade was starting, and walked past the counter toward the toilets.

One walked around the counter, toward Stephen, who raised his hands in the air, as if to prevent her from coming too close.

He stands at a long wooden counter toward the back of the bakery, where bins of various heights populate the shelves and floor.

She seemed to sense his hesitation and plucked a pen from one of the teller stations, rolling it across the counter toward him.

I HAD progressed barely 100 yards from the ticket counter toward my departure gate at Newark International Airport when I had to show my photo identification for the third time.

"I don't know if I can handle it," Ms. Legeza said from behind the counter, nodding toward the steady line of customers.

It would counter tendencies toward stereotypical thinking, encourage pupils to recognize the positive importance of variability, and promote tolerant attitudes to other individuals, nationalities, cultures, and creeds.

Additionally, the chemical catalysis and stability of composite counter electrodes toward I−3 reduction, and the interfacial charge transfer have been quantitatively investigated by cyclic voltammetry and electrochemical impedance spectra.

When asked where the ATMs are, the lady at the counter pointed toward one wall.

However, a counter trend toward increasing emissions of nanoparticles, a subset of PM2.5 that generally is not resolved by routine measurement techniques [ 42], cannot be ruled out, although a literature search turned up no articles indicating such a trend.