Sentence examples for pointed almost from inspiring English sources

The fire, pointed almost horizontally stage right pushed along, it seems, by wind curls and flaps into unreadable figures.

Instead, Mr. Bush pointed almost offhandedly to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian jihadist who sought help from Al Qaeda in waging the anti-American insurgency after Mr. Hussein's fall and who has been implicated in the killing of Nicholas Berg, the American who was beheaded by militants in Iraq in May.

At that time, instruments had a much better view of the glows which lasted longer, covered a larger area, and festooned the unlit side of Uranus but other factors were different, as well: Then, the planet's rotational axis was pointed almost directly at the sun, whereas in 2011 the axis lay almost perpendicular to the flow of solar wind.

The research also suggests that the axis of the bar is pointed almost directly at our solar system, with our sun (which sits in a spiral arm of the Milky Way between one-half and two-thirds of the distance from the galaxy's center toward its edge) lying about 20° off the bar's axis.

Uranus's south pole was pointed almost directly at the Sun at the time of Voyager 2s flyby in 1986.

Connie's voice was pointed, almost nagging, as we rounded the grasses at the corner of the old porch, where she stopped.

But five years of data are now available, and they point almost uniformly in one direction: to the right.

Of course the same is true for a direction pointing almost straight down towards the ground.

Follow through with your right arm so that it's pointing almost straight up.

Start with your front foot behind the bolts, with your toes pointing almost straight ahead.

Twenty-one points almost directly off defense?