How to use "toward" in a sentence

With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nation's wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphan - to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations.

She led them toward a row of strange-looking pods that stood vertically

She grew braver, and began to swim more rapidly toward the beach.

He was swimming toward her with a dolphin on either side of him.

Sala and Cham swam with them for a while - further out into the ocean first and then back toward the beach

Then the biggest dolphin moved toward Sala and pushed her with its nose

Cham pulled Sala toward him

"Shhh!" In one quick, smooth movement, the woman pushed the note between Sala's fingers, nodded at her, and then set off rapidly toward the walkway

you're still going to do this?" she demanded, waving her hand toward the pod center.

When she came toward the biggest walkway of all - the one that stretched right across the city - Sala's heart started beating faster

They took the street that led toward the meat-growing laboratory

She took the same exit as before and walked cautiously toward the tower block

The boy became conscious of her gaze and turned toward her

For a week or two, she had continued to make progress toward acceptance

As she started toward the door, she caught sight of the easel, stopped, and turned

The room stepped down toward the stage in alternating wide and narrow galleries

She headed toward the center booth in the VIP row, where Charles Mainway, general manager and principal stockholder of the Golden Pyramid Hotel, waited for her.

She got out of the car and, carrying a purse the size of a small suitcase, marched up the walk toward the house, angling away from the front door and past the garage.

Vivienne looked both ways, then moved to the right, toward the closed door at the end of the hall

By ten-thirty most of the audience had left and those who hadn't gone yet were in line, moving up the steps toward the rear doors of the showroom

She edged around the pit, determined to make the hateful bastard stop what he was doing, but he took a step away from her for every step that she took toward him, and he always stayed directly across the hole from her

She stopped at the easel, set it up as it belonged, hesitated, then turned the chalkboard toward her.

When at last they reached the end of the casino and were on the escalators, heading down toward the shopping arcade, Tina said, "What is blackjack blackout?"

Well, not her ambition as much as Michael's childish attitude toward it

She turned away from him and started toward the rear entrance of the hotel, out of which they'd come a few minutes ago.

She headed toward the Golden Pyramid, where she had an office, and where work was waiting to be done.

Reaching toward her with a hand that would be cold and damp

He would turn toward her, surprised, and she would finally know who he was.

She took a step toward him, but then she realized that he might have come here straight from a computer in one of the other third-floor offices

He moved toward her.

Elliot touched her face, turning it gently toward him.

As they crossed the reception area on their way toward the hall, Tina glanced nervously at Angela's computer

He may have leaned toward her, or perhaps she tilted toward him

Elliot took a step toward them.

When Elliot refused to move away from the sink to the breakfast table in the far corner of the big kitchen, Bob, the smaller of the two men, hesitated, then reluctantly took a step toward him.

The bear-who-would-be-a-man shambled toward him

Elliot swung toward the other intruder, pointing the confiscated pistol.

Bob was already out of the kitchen, in the dining room, running toward the front of the house

When she opened the door, he came in fast, almost in a crouch, glancing past her, left and right, toward the living room, then toward the dining area, speaking rapidly, urgently

"Well, there was the gas man," Tina said as she hurried down the short hall toward the master bedroom.

A blood-freezing image rose at the back of her mind: the house torn apart by a colossal blast, shrapnel of wood and glass and metal whistling toward her, hundreds of sharp fragments piercing her from head to foot.

He put the pistol on his lap, the muzzle facing toward his door, away from Tina

As he drove from one residential street to another, steadily heading away from the smoke, working toward a major thoroughfare, Elliot expected to encounter the black van at every intersection.

The land began to rise toward Mount Charleston where, less than an hour away, pine forests were mantled with snow

Elliot swung the car around and started back toward the lights of the city, which spread like a vast, glowing fungus on the black desert plain.

As he and Tina walked across the parking lot toward the diner, Elliot couldn't shake the feeling that someone or something was watching them

She glanced back toward the car, a curious expression on her face.

Arms on the table, both hands clasped around her glass of beer, Tina leaned toward Elliot

A young couple was plotting conspiratorially, leaning toward each other from opposite sides of a booth, their heads almost touching

The other dealers streamed by, and when Evans finally turned away from the waitress, he was the last in the procession as it moved toward the blackjack pits.

Heads turned toward him.

From his coat, he withdrew the pistol and put it on the seat between him and Christina, the muzzle pointed toward the dashboard.

He turned his head toward them and stared at them through the railed sides of the hospital bed in which he lay.

They slipped around the corner of the building and moved stealthily toward the front.

He kept one hand on her back as she leaned toward the window, and he felt her go rigid when she glimpsed the dead man

Elliot ran toward the Chevy, which Tina had brought to a stop a hundred yards away

She started down the tunnel toward him, determined to get him out of there - and something reached for her from a narrow cleft in the wall

Danny began calling again, and she continued down the dusky tunnel toward him

From the sporting-goods store, they had driven out of town, west toward the mountains

Now they were on a narrow county road, moving steadily higher as the valley sloped toward its northern end

Zachariah glanced toward the observation window of the isolation chamber

The guard stopped halfway to the Explorer and turned toward the gate when he saw it moving, unable to believe his eyes.

Zachariah swung toward him

I'm going to cut up this next valley and then swing back around toward the installation and try to avoid some of these crosscurrents

Most of him was covered, but his head, raised on a pillow, was turned toward the window

The boy blinked, and with what appeared to be great effort, at the cost of more than a little pain, he withdrew one arm from under the covers and reached out toward her

Danny became excited when he saw her drawing near, and in spite of his terrible condition, he shakily thrust himself into a sitting position, clutching at the bed rails with one frail, trembling hand, eagerly extending his other hand toward her.

He started out of the forest, toward the county lane, which is about five miles from the turnoff to the labs, and after only three miles-"

Elliot gave her the pistol and started toward the bed.

The chopper swooped toward them.

I simply said, "Well, a red-hot glowing road is a great visual." In fact, it would be such a fantastic visual that it would be visible at night from orbiting satellites, like a neon arrow pointing toward the secret installation that it served.