pointing

“If you continue on this trail, you can walk all the way to Maine!” my dad said, pointing northward.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 15, 2026

"They're trying to make the case that the positives will far outweigh some of those negatives that the public backlash is pointing out," he said.

From BBC ● Aug. 14, 2026

Demand for change is "enormous", he said, pointing to his conversations with Russians before his campaign was cut short.

From Barron's ● Aug. 14, 2026

Accident investigators probing a Ryanair RYA -1.00%decrease; down pointing triangle plane that experienced engine failure while flying over Greece last month found bird remains inside an engine.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

Tangles of gray hair, bony fingers pointing, crouched in the darkness.

From "Nory Ryan’s Song" by Patricia Reilly Giff

There were glowing little pointings labeled Lemons and Oranges, Radishes, or just plain Fruit, but never "Still Life."

From Time Magazine Archive

They were most unpleasantly inquisitive, and by their stares, jabber, and pointings, incessantly wanting me to show them everything that I possessed, with explanations about their various uses, quite tired out my patience.

From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke

Add to all this labor, the neat work upon the rigging;—the knots, flemish-eyes, splices, seizings, coverings, pointings, and graftings, which show a ship in crack order.

From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana

All this despite sundry vigorous and desperate shakings of Grace's head and pantomimic pointings toward her feet.

From The Outdoor Girls at the Hostess House Or, doing their best for the soldiers by Laura Lee Hope

One must imagine the pathetic effect of their former silent pointings to this and that conventual treasure under stress of the feeling that such pointings were narrowly numbered.

From Italian Hours by Henry James