Example Sentences

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Those features have been directing a perfectly oriented supply of cold west-southwesterly wind down the entire lengths of the lakes; in the case of Lake Erie, that’s a 240-mile fetch.

From Washington Post • Nov. 18, 2022

I don’t think they could have gotten any other directors to do these episodes, because they would have been directing an episode of television for 2½ months.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 29, 2022

Administrators for associated groups have been directing people to the site where they can register to buy petro and have been removing users who criticize the currency.

From Slate • Feb. 23, 2018

O.K., so I may have been directing some of my brokenhearted anger at them, but all I could think was that I wanted no part of this game.

From New York Times • Jan. 14, 2016

She might have been directing which tennis sets the girls were to play in.

From "And Then There Were None" by Agatha Christie