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
• More than ever, China needs Beijing to act, to point the way to future action.
  — Milton Ezrati, Forbes, 28 Mar. 2024
• Introduction The quakes that rocked the region in November helped point the way.
  — Robin George Andrews, Quanta Magazine, 20 Feb. 2024
• 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
• Amid modern uncertainty, that period can help point the way forward.
  — Donald Bryson, National Review, 16 June 2024
• 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
• In which case the majority opinion, even if correct as a constitutional matter, could point the way to political farce.
  — Stephen L. Carter, The Mercury News, 23 May 2024
• In many cases, analytic insights simply point the way to do what’s already being done more efficiently.
  — Marc Price, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• 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

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024