Sentence examples for say toward from inspiring English sources

It was six hundred miles to the north — that is to say, toward Russia — and bitterly cold.

And he pushed a bill — a good bill, on the whole — that shifted the balance of penalties for prostitution toward the buyer, which is to say toward himself.

Rather than put $100, say, toward reinventing its shipping system, the Gap may spend $20 to plant trees or invest in a clean utility.

To increase the region's allure as a market and export base, tangible progress needs to be made, they say, toward pledges of greater economic integration and free trade.

Figuring out how to handle the gift question — whether to give gifts and if so, what to offer — can go a long way, experts say, toward helping parents and children manage the disruption and complex feelings parents' travel creates.

Mr. Simmons was upset that Pepsi had pulled television commercials featuring the rap star Ludacris, a black man whose lyrics tend toward the obscene, much the way his spelling tends, some might say, toward the ridikyoolis.

Prone to fainting spells, she said toward the end of the interview that she felt lightheaded.

"I guess it's worked both ways," Sloan said toward the end of the regular season.

"We're technocrats," Gates said toward the end of the interview.

"Some of us are lucky... some of us aren't," he says toward the end.

As one says toward the end, "We know how you people like plays".