How to use "towards" in a sentence

I continue walking towards the Big Drop Rappel

I let go of the boulder and drop towards the ground

As I fall, I look up and see the boulder crashing towards my head

When it's open, I try and lift it towards my mouth

Friends suddenly appear in the canyon like silent ghosts and wave me towards them

I promise myself that if I can escape from here back to the people, I will be kinder towards them.

They turn and come running towards me.

I sit down and wait as a man jumps to the ground and walks towards me.

This gets bigger as we move down towards it

There was a ship travelling very fast towards us.

We began to move back to the hill, but Doyle suddenly saw more enemy soldiers who were going towards our men! We waited until they got to the top, then Bones began shooting with the machine gun

I picked up Doyle and put him across my shoulders, then I ran towards the hill

Somebody shouted, 'Back!' I picked up my machine gun and ran towards some trees.

I started to walk towards her, but she turned and walked away

And finally, in our progress towards a resumption of work, we require two safeguards against a return of the evils of the old order

I saw the hand-carriage coining back towards us along the sand as she was talking

when some workmen rushed towards him and told him about the dead woman

At 12.45 Israel Schwartz was walking towards Dutfield's Yard when he saw a man stop and speak to a woman in the entrance

He walked west towards the City of London

He then crossed the square towards an inn, and entered by the kitchen door.

The innkeeper approached and, bending towards the man, said in a fierce whisper, 'Get out

He moved carefully towards the window and looked out

He then put his shoes into the bag and, grasping the iron bar in his right hand, he moved quietly towards the door of the bishop's bedroom

The bishop, meanwhile, had moved towards the group of men and was smiling at Jean Valjean.

This time, however, he did not catch it and it rolled along the ground towards Valjean, who immediately put his foot on it.

Instead, he said, 'I've behaved unjustly towards an innocent man

Everybody stood to one side to let him pass as he made his way towards the door

'He hasn't come for you.' Then, gently rising from his chair, he moved towards Javert

She let him carry the bucket up the hill and, as they walked back towards the village, she told him everything about her life with the Thenardiers

Mme Thenardier took the coin the old man held towards her and walked away.

Mme Thenardier rushed across the room towards Cosette who, afraid that she would be punished, put the doll gently on the floor and began to cry.

One evening, towards the end of winter, Valjean gave some money to a beggar sitting under a streetlamp outside a church

Running to the door, he put his eye to the large keyhole and saw the back view of a man who was walking towards the stairs

Jondrette put the picture down and stepped quietly towards the old man.

He began to move towards M

Thenardier was advancing towards his prisoner, knife in hand, when his wife cried, 'Something fell!'

Gillenormand moved quickly towards him, pulled him back into the room and pushed him into an armchair.

Marius left the garden and, mad with grief at losing Cosette, walked towards the sound of drums and gunfire in the centre of the city

Marius, who had thrown away his guns and was now without a weapon, began to move towards a barrel of gunpowder he had seen near the door of the wine shop

Marius smiled and lowered the torch towards the gunpowder

Looking down, Marius saw a dark shape crawling along the ground towards him

A white face was turned towards him and the voice asked, 'Do you recognize me? It's Eponine.'

Half an hour later he left the house, dressed in his National Guard uniform, with a loaded gun and a pocket full of gunpowder, and made his way towards the market district of Paris.

Only Marius, looking over his shoulder, saw them cross the stronghold towards the smaller barricade

There was a roar of gunfire and the soldiers attacked, rushing towards the barricade

They stood with their backs to the door, shooting up at the soldiers who were climbing down towards them from the barricade

As the two friends moved back towards the door, fighting off the soldiers, a bullet hit Marius in the shoulder

He could not see where he was going, but he knew he had to follow the downward slope of the passages towards the river.

Valjean repeated the address until he could remember it, returned the wallet to Marius's pocket, picked Marius up again and continued his journey downwards towards the river

Forgetting the weight of Marius on his shoulders and his own hunger and tiredness, he ran towards the light

He noticed his grandfather's tenderness towards him, but he could not forget the old man's unfairness and cruelty to his father, who had died penniless and unloved

He was even more surprised when, instead of chasing him out of the room, Marius ran towards him and pressed several thousand-franc notes into his hand.

He takes a few steps towards the trees

Then he hears the man shout, and he looks up and sees his angry face running towards him through the crowd.

He moves towards another door and then hears someone else enter court.

We drove slowly through the brightly lit streets towards the hotel

Maxim walked towards the sitting-room.

She walked slowly towards me.

I could see their faces, all turned towards us

A tall, thin woman dressed in black came towards us

Her dark eyes watched me as I walked slowly up the stairs towards her

'I must go downstairs.' As I began to walk towards the stairs, Mrs Danvers followed me.

We walked up the beach towards the valley again.

I began climbing over the rocks towards Jasper

He turned away and walked back towards the sea.

I went up towards the wood

Jasper had moved towards the drawing-room, wagging his tail.

As I walked towards the library, I heard the sound of voices

Why was Maxim looking like that? He moved towards the stairs.

I backed away from her, towards the window

She pushed me towards the open window

I left him and walked towards the path through the woods

'Then she stood up and walked towards me.

I could not speak or walk towards him.

'No, no,' he said, coming towards me, 'I've got something to say to Max

Maxim walked slowly towards the telephone in the next room.

The wind blew towards us from the sea

'But how do you explain her attitude towards her little boy?' I asked

Worried, I stretched out a hand towards him.

I want to see if there are footprints.' He moved towards the open window.

And Dr Stone came down the path from Old Hall, so they all walked towards the village together

As we left the vicarage, Dennis came running towards us

When we had finished, I said goodbye and took the private path towards the vicarage

This time we went towards the vicarage and finally to where the bushes grew against the wall.

A picture was leaning against the wall with its back towards us

I wished Hurst good luck and continued on towards the vicarage

Then, carrying the suitcase, I continued on towards home.

If only that note had said something different.' She moved towards the window and on her way put her hand into the pot of a rather tired houseplant

Goodnight, Mr Clement.' And she went quickly across the lawn towards her house.

Because it was so small, I did not see the Thing they were sending us, which was flying quickly towards me across that great distance

But no one suspected the truth, that the Martians had fired missiles, which were now rushing towards us at a speed of many kilometres a second across the great emptiness of space.

I pointed out Mars, a bright spot of light rising in the sky, towards which so many telescopes were pointing.

Only a few nights later, the first falling star was seen towards the east

A boy came running towards me.

I pressed back against the person behind me, and turned my head towards the Thing again

Then something like a little grey snake, about the thickness of a walking-stick, came out of the middle and moved through the air towards me - and then another.

I turned and ran madly towards the first group of trees, perhaps a hundred metres away

I knew it was coming towards me because of the flashing bushes it touched, but I was too shocked to move

Areas of bush and a few trees still smoked, and the houses towards Woking station were sending up tongues of flame into the stillness of the evening air.

I went into my garden and stood listening, but towards the common there was nothing moving.

After breakfast, instead of working, I decided to walk down towards the common

I ran at once towards the pub, whose owner had a horse and cart

There is a gentle slope towards the foot of Maybury Hill, and down this we went

Then suddenly, the trees in the wood ahead of me were pushed to the side and a second enormous tripod appeared, rushing, as it seemed, straight towards me

Staying in the wood, I moved towards my own house

I walked up the narrow road towards my house

The window looks over the trees and the railway towards Horsell Common

He watched as the foot-soldiers rushed towards the tripod

Then the tripod turned and walked away towards where the second cylinder lay.

He suggested going towards London, where he could rejoin his company

We reached the woods at the foot of the hill and moved through these towards the road

As we ran, we heard the sound of horses and saw through the trees three soldiers riding towards Woking

We shouted and they stopped while we hurried towards them

'Do you know what's over there?' I said, pointing towards the woods that hid the Martians.

Quickly, one after the other, one, two, three, four of the Martian machines appeared, far away over the low trees towards Chertsey

Then, from a different direction, a fifth one came towards us

One on the left, the furthest away, held a large case high in the air, and the terrible Heat-Ray shone towards Chertsey and struck the town.

I turned around again and ran towards the approaching Martian, ran right down the stony beach and dived into the water

When I lifted my head it was looking towards the guns that were still firing across the river

I saw people struggling towards the shore and heard their screaming and shouting faintly above the noise of the Martian's fall.

Then suddenly the white flashes of the Heat-Ray came towards me

I turned towards the shore.

In another moment a large wave of almost boiling water rushed towards me

I used my hands to keep it moving, down the river towards Walton, going very slowly and often looking behind me

The Martians appear to be moving towards Chertsey

People in West Surrey are very worried and defenses have been built to slow the Martians' movement towards London.

But there was almost nothing to tell people until the government announced that the people of Walton and Weybridge, and all chat district, were pouring along the roads towards London.

Then trains carrying large guns and many soldiers passed through the station, moving towards Kingston

Five of the machines had been seen moving towards the Thames and one, by a lucky chance, had been destroyed

My brother turned towards Victoria station, and met a number of people like these

They have poisoned our gunners, destroyed Richmond, Kingston and Wimbledon, and are moving slowly towards London, destroying everything on the way, It is impossible to stop them

They moved forwards slowly and carefully towards Ripley and Weybridge, and so came in sight of the waiting guns

And then the Martian closest to us raised his tube and fired it towards the guns, with a loud bang that made the ground shake

So, doing it methodically, as a man might kill insects, the Martians spread this strange killing smoke over the country towards London

You have to imagine what happened to the gunners towards Esher, waiting so tensely in the evening light, because none of them lived to tell the story

My brother shouted and ran towards them

One of the men turned towards him

So, intending to cross the Great North Road, they went on towards Barnet

On Tuesday the three of them, still intending to get out to sea, drove through the busy country towards Colchester.

A number of people now, like my brother, were moving to the east, and some were even so desperate that they turned back towards London to get food

It was the first Martian that my brother had seen, and he stood, more amazed than frightened, as it moved steadily towards the ships, walking further and further into the water

When his eyes were clear again, the warship had passed and was rushing towards the land

The Thunder Child fired no gun, but simply sailed at full speed towards them

They saw the three thin figures separating and rising out of the water as they moved back towards the shore, and one of them raised the box that fired his Heat-Ray

It went straight towards a second Martian, and was within a hundred metres of it when the Heat-Rav hit it

But the other warships were now quite close and moving in towards the shore.

The Black Smoke moved slowly towards the river all through Monday morning, slowly getting nearer and nearer to us, coming at last along the road outside the house that hid us.

He did not answer, but as soon as I began eating I heard him crawling towards me.

By chance the kitchen had escaped and now stood buried under earth and bricks, covered on every side except towards the cylinder

Then I heard the sound of a heavy body - I knew whose it was - being dragged across the floor of the kitchen towards the opening

In the darkness I could just see the thing moving towards me and examining the wall and the floor

Then I started walking towards the river

After sunset I struggled on along the road towards Putney, and in a garden I found some potatoes, enough to stop my hunger

In the road that runs from the top of Putney Hill to Wimbledon many things had been left behind by the crowds that ran towards London on the Sunday night after the fighting began

I took a step towards it, and it rose up and became a man armed with a sword

And after they went away, I went towards Walton across the fields

I also felt that it would be easier to get into the drain and dig back towards the house

I stopped, staring towards Kensington Gardens.

I turned to the north, towards the iron gates of Hyde Park

Wondering about all that I had seen, I moved on towards Primrose Hill

But before dawn my courage returned, and while the stars were still in the sky I turned again towards Regent's Park

I marched on without fear towards this great machine, and then, as I came nearer and the light grew, I saw that a number of black birds were circling and gathering around the top of it

I felt no fear, only a wild, shaking excitement, as I ran up the hill towards the unmoving Martian

At the thought, I lifted my hands towards the sky and began thanking God

Then I returned through the wood towards my home

I took a step towards it and stood looking out.

She turned and walked gracefully towards me

His actions towards Anne Catherick and her mother have been generous

His manner, towards Laura has changed: he does not look at her with tender interest anymore.

Laura walked towards the door, and I followed her.

The other woman walked towards me

As I ran back towards the church, I saw flames against the evening sky