How to Use toward in a Sentence

toward

preposition

• She took a step toward the door.
• They live out towards the edge of town.
• The bus is heading toward town.
• We're thinking of taking a vacation towards the end of the month.
• Efforts toward peace have been largely unsuccessful.
• All the locks from the event will go toward the lake cleanup.
  — María Luisa Paúl, Washington Post, 20 Oct. 2023
• Trump heads toward the door of the judge’s chambers, stops, waits for his lawyers, then walks out of the courtroom.
  — Salvador Rizzo, Washington Post, 3 Aug. 2023
• Hinge Back Hinge at the hips and knees to send your butt back toward your heels, keeping your palms planted on the floor.
  — Brett Williams, Men's Health, 10 July 2023
• Gibbs runs a route toward the middle of the field and gets behind Fred Warner.
  — Jerry McDonald, The Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2024
• Ukraine has reclaimed much of the land lost in the opening months and is once again pushing toward its borders.
  — WIRED, 10 July 2023
• In 1985, Shields published On Your Own, a self-help book geared toward young women.
  — Lauren Dukoff, Glamour, 1 Nov. 2023
• And there was no progress made toward a two-state solution.
  — Nbc Universal, NBC News, 8 Oct. 2023
• Bobb climbed down from the cab and began walking toward the problem.
  — Dan Schwartz, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2023
• Your paddle should be angled forward, toward the nose of the board with one hand on the top T-grip of the paddle and the other a few feet down.
  — USA TODAY, 27 Aug. 2023
• One of Pawlet’s two constables moved toward Banyai, as if to escort him out.
  — Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
• That sounds pretty dire, with the clock ticking quickly toward that date.
  — Medora Lee, USA Today, 17 May 2023
• The ball ricocheted toward the seats in right center field.
  — Gabe Lacques, USA TODAY, 16 May 2023
• The theme park in Texas will be smaller and geared toward families with young children.
  — Caitlin Huston, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2023
• Darrell ran toward the bomb site, arriving just in time to see Shea’s body pulled from the wreckage.
  — Ayelet Waldman, The New Yorker, 30 Mar. 2024
• Both credit unions will work toward a full systems conversion by the end of 2024.
  — William Thornton | [e-mail], al, 8 Apr. 2023
• The service had ended and people were drifting toward the doors.
  — Greg Jaffe and Patrick Marley, Anchorage Daily News, 27 Aug. 2023
• Sanders came charging forward, leaped in front of Jones, made the interception and took off toward the end zone.
  — Eric Sondheimer, Los Angeles Times, 25 Nov. 2023
• The 19-year-old is currently working toward joining the Marine Corps by next year.
  — Emily Trainham, Fox News, 10 July 2023
• The only consensus is that the current march toward anarchy will grind on and civilians will bear the cost.
  — Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 26 Nov. 2023
• Overall the pace of progress toward gender parity has slowed.
  — Lila MacLellan, Fortune, 26 Sep. 2023
• Riverside will pay up to $5,000 toward her legal costs of resolving the complaint.
  — Vimal Patel, BostonGlobe.com, 27 Aug. 2023
• The debate between those two views could go a long way toward determining who wins the White House and control of Congress in 2024.
  — Lisa Mascaro, Chicago Tribune, 15 Aug. 2023
• Spokane contributed $26 million toward the project for the Air Force and the county sheriff’s office.
  — Shawn Raymundo, The Arizona Republic, 29 Mar. 2024
• On a path to ‘my destiny’ Back when Evans was a high school senior, her mother summoned the nerve to take her only child and skip town toward safety.
  — Virginia Brown, Charlotte Observer, 6 Mar. 2024
• If waves break on a sandbar, but not in a deeper channel that cuts through the sandbar, the extra water that the waves have pushed toward the beach escapes back to the ocean through the channel.
  — The Conversation, oregonlive, 22 July 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024