The word “toward” (or “towards”) is a preposition indicating direction, orientation, or attitude. Writers use it to describe physical movement, emotional tendencies, and relationships between people or ideas. The examples below are drawn from authentic works to show how “toward” appears in real writing.
Real Sentences for Toward
On March 3, 1866, Powell and I packed his provisions on two of our burros, and bidding me goodbye he mounted his horse, and started down the mountainside toward the valley, across which led the first stage of his journey.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
40 words, 221 characters
It lay, he said, stretched full length in the snow with the arms outstretched above the head toward the edge of the bluff, and when he showed me the spot it flashed upon me that it was the identical one where I had seen him on those other nights, with his arms raised in supplication to the skies.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
58 words, 297 characters
The morning of Powell’s departure was, like nearly all Arizona mornings, clear and beautiful; I could see him and his little pack animals picking their way down the mountainside toward the valley, and all during the morning I would catch occasional glimpses of them as they topped a hog back or came out upon a level plateau.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
57 words, 325 characters
He seemed always to be laughing; and he entered into the sports of the children with the same hearty good fellowship he displayed toward those pastimes in which the men and women of his own age indulged; or he would sit for an hour at a time entertaining my old grandmother with stories of his strange, wild life in all parts of the world.
Source: A Princess of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs
64 words, 339 characters
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