Sentence examples for needing directions from inspiring English sources

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Then, as I waited to cross Seventh Avenue, tourists approached me, bus-tour brochures in hand, needing directions.

Survivors have said the attacker approached them under the pretense of needing directions or help with a broken-down vehicle.

When I spotted two seemingly African students, I faked needing directions to an art exhibit, hoping to find out where they were from.

Visiting France in the month after victory in World War I, President Woodrow Wilson and his wife found themselves needing directions from two boys in the street.

What we saw yesterday was a shot of Ewan McGregor running at full pelt, Boyle having decided, probably wisely, not to use the sequence in which an American tourist, needing directions, is waylaid and mugged on a trip to Edinburgh.

No Parisian is as impatient with American mispronunciation, no New Yorker as disdainful of tourists needing directions, as is a certain strand of born-and-bred Detroiter with the optimism of recent arrivals and their various schemes for the city's improvement.

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He needed directions to Greenpoint.

Did they need directions?

She presumed someone needed directions.

At least they didn't need directions.

Other visitors do not need directions.

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