Synonyms
Examples for "point"
Examples for "point"
1
These results therefore point to continued private sector expansion throughout the year.
2
Case in point: the current end of financial year and mid-year sales.
3
The situation in the North West is now well beyond crisis point.
4
The budget is a key point of political contention this election year.
5
A year ago, football was in crisis - up to a point.
1
Higher oil prices signal to oil companies the need for greater investment.
2
We need a very clear strong political signal at the highest level.
3
Please signal 'all clear' by setting runway approach lights to strobe mode.
4
However, the signal that was given was not exactly one to attack.
5
Higher oil prices also signal to consumers the need to demand less.
1
However, he said the timing could indicate a greater sense of urgency.
2
Traffic flows also indicate a strong economy and the share market rises.
3
The latest two-year data indicate a risk of 2 per million procedures.
4
Police say initial reports indicate the vehicle's occupant suffered a medical event.
5
When AIDS was first identified, five years was held to indicate safety.
1
His olive features bespeak Sicily; his voice is pure urban New Jersey.
2
His verses here bespeak his good intention, but no facility in rhyming.
3
My friend will send a man in advance to bespeak your comfort.
4
I am page to Sir Percival, and I would bespeak your name.
5
I didn't dare bespeak him, but I was on nettles all night.
1
Aloes, without a flower, betoken long life: in flower, betoken a legacy.
2
His countenance expresses courage, and his well-set jaws betoken firmness and resolution.
3
And the simultaneous disappearance of Quast and the cats-whatdid that betoken?
4
This plea for wings does not necessarily betoken 'a desire to depart.'
5
They betoken a new humility in Western Christianity born of experience.
6
Simple physics already betoken the insufficiency of a purely mechanic conception.
7
The duller countenances of the British population betoken a better scheme of life.
8
Her coming seemed to betoken the return of the day of small things.
9
I presume these betoken substantial silver, though it may be of the thinnest.
10
That doth but betoken that I will hereafter drink so much the more.
11
His dejected bearing did not betoken the conqueror he undoubtedly was.
12
I hear voices, which probably betoken the departure of Monsieur Miste.
13
These batches of stocks and bonds betoken as much more again.
14
They were standing immovable, and their attitude did not betoken hostility.
15
Certainly, if they both betoken equal power, one betokens greater mercy.
16
There were none of the heavy blue veins across the back that betoken age.
