How to Use point the way in a Sentence

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• Signs point the way to the scenic vista that teeters over a stunning red rock landscape.
  — Mare Czinar, The Arizona Republic, 6 Jan. 2023
• After orientation, the park rangers will point the way to the falls.
  — Scott McMurren, Anchorage Daily News, 25 June 2022
• Had Swift, the teen prodigy who is now 34, helped point the way from one stage to another?
  — Bill Pennington, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2024
• Finding the cause could point the way to a meaningful treatment.
  — Delthia Ricks, Discover Magazine, 5 Oct. 2011
• Brazil’s strong reduction in the late 2000s, for example, could point the way.
  — Jocelyn Timperley, Wired, 2 Dec. 2021
• Hiking trails have become more popular than ever — and The Wild was there to help point the way.
  — Mary Forgione, Los Angeles Times, 30 Dec. 2021
• Cavers usually use these arrows to point the way out of deep passages in case someone gets lost.
  — Joshua Rapp Learn, Discover Magazine, 12 Aug. 2022
• Successful tests of this Marscopter could point the way toward new methods for searching the surface of Mars and other worlds from their skies.
  — Kenneth Chang, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2021
• Researchers have found signatures in the blood of people suffering from long Covid, which might point the way to treatments for the condition.
  — Will Sullivan, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Jan. 2024
• That work could reveal whether this gene is truly at the root of her problems, and potentially point the way toward her treatment.
  — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 18 June 2021
• In this time of uncertainty, the kindness of the common woman and man point the way to reclaiming a sense of national purpose.
  — WSJ, 3 June 2022
• His final observations about Mr. Trump may point the way forward.
  — D.g. Hart, WSJ, 20 Nov. 2022
• Feminism should help point the way out of this predicament, but feminism, Srinivasan believes, bears some blame for getting us into it in the first place.
  — Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 27 Sep. 2021
• But the findings could also point the way for millions of other patients around the world who are contending with heart disease, which remains a leading cause of death.
  — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 12 Nov. 2023
• The four films mentioned above will point the way to prosperity or disaster for Hollywood.
  — Frank Pallotta, CNN, 1 Oct. 2021
• Where babysitter movies point the way to recovery — the movies that serve as babysitters, that is — an entire entertainment industry prays for many more to follow.
  — Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 17 May 2023
• Together, the two stories point the way toward the next quarter-century of popular culture.
  — Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2022
• In the end, as the book’s subtitle suggests, the reader is left with little more than a religious metaphor to point the way forward for this lovely but exasperating nation.
  — Bill Emmott, Foreign Affairs, 1 Nov. 2012
• But now there’s reason to be hopeful: an ambitious experiment in Oregon could point the way to a novel solution.
  — Lisa Jarvis, Twin Cities, 6 Jan. 2024
• But now there’s reason to be hopeful: An ambitious experiment in Oregon could point the way to a novel solution.
  — Lisa Jarvis, The Mercury News, 5 Jan. 2024
• These are serious concerns and point the way towards the ultimate bull market, where prices would be far above historical levels.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• All the more reason to think that, in a future where some version of evolution prevails, republican theories of civil rights are likely to point the way forward.
  — Steve Fuller, Discover Magazine, 2 Feb. 2015
• This will help point the way forward for data democratization.
  — Derek Wang, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2021
• Demonstrating that the human gene fulfills a similar purpose in the brain of another primate provides new insight into how humans may have evolved and may point the way to future treatments for brain disease.
  — Courtney Sexton, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 June 2020
• This model may point the way for New York’s eventual return, at least in its early stages: smaller, less garishly expensive, made for the people who actually live here, not for tourists or investors.
  — John Leland, New York Times, 8 Oct. 2020
• New efficiencies, storage technologies and demand side management point the way to making that happen.
  — Brad Templeton, Forbes, 23 Jan. 2023
• How the successful public-private effort to develop and distribute coronavirus vaccines can point the way forward for the medical field.
  — Willy Chertman, National Review, 30 July 2022
• Nevertheless, people on the margins may point the way to new innovation, new routes to market and exciting new category creation.
  — Sally Percy, Forbes, 21 Apr. 2023
• Yet the genetic similarities between human and dog cancers may point the way to treatments that can save lives on both ends of the leash. advertisement Most of the dogs that develop cancer this year won’t receive any treatment for their disease.
  — Christina Lopes, STAT, 16 June 2023
• The research could point the way toward possible treatments, including medications that boost serotonin.
  — Pam Belluck, New York Times, 16 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 8 Sep 2024