Sentence examples for tack and a from inspiring English sources

Each family had a different tack and a different theory.

Each family had a different tack, and a different theory.

The police changed tack and a different officer was put in charge of the case.

Not bad for someone who not so long ago didn't know the difference between a tack and a jibe.

"I might have chosen both a different tack and a different time," said Gov. Bill Ritter Jr. of Colorado, a Democrat who was facing a tough fight for re-election and pulled out of the race earlier this year.

There was a time when I'd gladly accept a bit of hard tack and a heel of New Zealand Cheddar from the waiter and be grateful that he deigned to serve me at all.

So he soon took a different professional tack, and became a quantitative analyst, or "a quant," with a small trading firm in Manhattan.

So in 1904, Democrats took a different tack and nominated a conservative, Alton B. Parker.

Follette and her colleagues took a new tack, and designed an imaging instrument to look for a characteristic planet formation signature.

If they mean what they say, it's time for a change of tack, and for a display of statesmanship.

But, having set up a play about a society which punishes the innocent, Hellman changes tack and writes a play about moral and sexual guilt.