Sentence examples for pointing from inspiring English sources

The word "pointing" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use the word "pointing" to describe something or someone that is directing attention towards a particular item or direction. For instance, "The tour guide pointed to the historical monument to show us where it was located."

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pointing

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Present participle of point

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Obama was pointing to the bipartisan effort to get the program launched in Massachusetts to encourage his opponents to stop rooting for his law's failure.

The report concluded there was "no credible evidence" to uphold complaints by Duggan's family that police had relocated the firearm in the sock, that officer V53 did not fire live shots in the belief Duggan was pointing a firearm at him, and that he did not use lawful force.

The wine, which can be found in shops and restaurants around London, including Noble Fine Liquor on Broadway Market (the label is an arrow pointing upwards), is extraordinary.

One features thousands of pasteable images, mainly of European leaders in humiliating photoshopped incidents or with captions pointing out their weakness and stupidity, or showing Putin making hilarious wisecracks and winning the day.

"Hiring can be frustrating on both sides," says Schmeling, pointing out that things in the military don't always move as fast as we think they do.

"His last name is Chimbaikar, my last name is Chimbaikar, though we are not related," says Manish, pointing to Anand.

"We do treat the bulls humanely," he said, pointing out that the same animals are used for each event so it is in the Bull Run's interests to look after them.

There was no rebuttal pointing out the decent levels of growth before George Osborne choked off the recovery Even the entirely false statement that Gordon Brown had sold off the Britain's gold reserves at knock-down prices to fund public spending went unchallenged, sacrificed to the strategy of fighting the 2015 election, not the 2010 one all over again.

Even with the polls pointing to electoral devastation, Labor's aversion to its former leader was so strong, it did not support him in two previous ballots - one in February 2012 that he lost 71 to 31 and one in March 2013 when he didn't even stand.

Europe is accounting for a member economy as if it were a dotcom circa 1997: by covering up all the bad stuff on the books, and then pointing to the rest as evidence of a money-making enterprise.

As nationalists have been pointing out on Twitter (see 3.20pm), this meant that the questioning was relatively gentle.

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