Example sentences for: pointed

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

  • The irony, he pointed out, is that the vast majority of working Americans, who aren't dues-paying union members, get a free ride whenever labor gets a bill passed that expands government benefits for union members and non-members alike.

  • Take, for instance, the Rhode Islander who pointed to a sparrow hawk (birders prefer to call it a kestrel) and, perhaps being mindful the early colony's questionable custom of profitable privateering, called it a privateer hawk . Would that be understood in Nebraska?

  • The Jerusalem Post pointed to a "novelty-seeking and risk-taking gene discovered in Israel" (see "International Papers" for ). Michael Kelly asks Washington Post readers why "we lard up the sorrow with this great and gross festival of national media blah-blah about Camelot and royalty and The Kennedy Curse."

  • I pointed out to him that if they made available a proper manual the number of calls could probably be reduced to 6,000.

  • Although not pointed out by Médigue et al . [ 5 ] , this result is surprising, because these genes are thought to have been acquired through several independent events from different species, and therefore should display very different codon-usage patterns and be separated by the analysis.


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