How to Use that way in a Sentence

that way

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  • Now, the hope for Lewis and the Twins is to keep him that way.
    Betsy Helfand, Twin Cities, 4 June 2024
  • Maybe the show would have been tighter and better that way.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • If there is a cost to that way of thinking, the world may pay it this year at the polls.
    Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 31 Jan. 2024
  • It’s been that way for the past 33 years at the school where Toomey has been coach for the past 20 seasons.
    Mike Preston, Baltimore Sun, 8 Apr. 2025
  • The fear is that some Justices might see their task that way.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Move the ball, throw it to the first guy who’s open, put a lot of pressure on the defense that way.
    Danny Emerman, The Mercury News, 7 Mar. 2024
  • The haircut and style trends of summer feel that way, too.
    Leah Prinzivalli, Allure, 9 May 2025
  • The color is intense and stays that way for eight hours of wear.
    Nora Colomer, Fox News, 23 Oct. 2024
  • The refs didn’t see it that way and the Blue Jackets cashed in on the man advantage.
    Steve Conroy, Boston Herald, 27 Dec. 2024
  • This isn’t the first time he’s ended a season that way.
    Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 23 May 2023
  • But dinosaurs didn’t just get big once and stay that way.
    Riley Black, Smithsonian Magazine, 11 Dec. 2023
  • Therefore, the lyrics were written in that way as well.
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 14 Dec. 2023
  • And then in 2017, Rob changed it and played it that way, but that’s different than the record, right?
    Jason Lipshutz, Billboard, 5 Sep. 2024
  • And that lash-up has been very tight and will continue to be that way.
    Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Not all prime numbers work out that way, but the rare ones that do are called Mersenne primes.
    Margherita Bassi, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 Oct. 2024
  • At least that’s my view—the Apple execs don’t see it that way.
    Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 2024
  • They’re not trained — the family prefers them that way.
    Jeanne Phillips, Mercury News, 14 Aug. 2025
  • The mixture needs to come to a rolling boil (not a simmer) and stay that way for 60 seconds.
    Robin Miller, The Arizona Republic, 15 Aug. 2024
  • But of course that didn’t happen, because it wasn’t meant to be that way.
    Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 23 Feb. 2024
  • Ok, but did Carter’s kids feel that way about their much looked-up to father?
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 13 May 2025
  • For Judge Judy, falling in love — and staying that way — isn't all that hard of a task.
    Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
  • The finish is silky smooth—not dewy and sticky like some others—and stays that way for hours.
    Danielle Sinay, Glamour, 13 Aug. 2024
  • So try to get back to being little more nails that way.
    Edgar Thompson, The Orlando Sentinel, 26 Mar. 2025
  • Everyone wants to see themselves in the world in that way.
    David Oliver, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
  • This Internet-famous recipe got that way for a reason.
    Jenna Sims, Southern Living, 4 Apr. 2026
  • Obviously, many old things went that way.
    Ben Smith, semafor.com, 3 Apr. 2026
  • It is supposed to be that way, right?
    Emily Tannenbaum, Glamour, 2 Apr. 2026
  • Lewis did describe himself that way, but Van Auken gave him a new understanding of what that meant.
    Molly Fischer, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026
  • The month is definitely starting off that way, with a couple of storms in the forecast.
    Lisa Meadows, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2026
  • Kim says it can easily be sheered out that way, or applied with a brush and built to a more medium-to-full coverage.
    Elizabeth Denton, Allure, 1 Apr. 2026

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