Example sentences for: point

How can you use “point” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • This would-be thriller gets punctured by the critics: "Possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism--from a theological point of view" (Ebert, the Chicago Sun-Times ). The film stars Patricia Arquette as a beautician who is mysteriously afflicted with stigmata after receiving a rosary with a history from her mother.

  • While attempting to cross the Sierra Nevada, George Donner’s wagon train became snowed in, and from November until February was stuck high in the mountains north of Lake Tahoe, at a point now known as the Donner Pass.

  • In a legal sense, the Jones proceeding is an apple to Starr's orange, claims Charles Krauthammer ( Inside Washington ). Most pundits point out--sometimes ominously, sometimes dismissively--that no one has seen Starr's cards: They may show "Lizzie Borden in drag" (Shields, PBS's NewsHour With Jim Lehrer ). Three conservatives proclaim their confidence that Starr holds enough to undo Clinton's presidency (Robert Novak, Capital Gang ; Fred Barnes and John McLaughlin, The McLaughlin Group ). Stuart Taylor wrote as much this week in the National Journal and appears on This Week to reprise the point.

  • "Larry, you can't live in the past," Keillor said at one point.

  • The coverage suggests that in the wake of Bumpers, momentum is building among senators to press for a quick resolution of the trial, even to the point of omitting all witnesses.


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