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How to use directed in a sentence

40 example sentences · adjective

Directed means in a manner emphasizing one's point of view. Example: “Eyes Wide Shut was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.”

More sentences with directed

  • Eyes Wide Shut was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.From the entry last
  • The ore slurries are directed into an open tank outside the excavation site.From the entry tank
  • The scorched-earth ad campaign directed at her opponent didn't win her many votes.From the entry scorched-earth
  • Most of the director's credits were co-credits: he rarely directed a film alone.From the entry co-credit
  • The router directed the movement of the company's trucks.From the entry router
  • The film was crewed and directed by students.From the entry crew
  • "Open your mouth and say 'aah'," directed the doctor.From the entry mouth
  • They directed their fire towards the men on the wall.From the entry direct
  • He directed his question to the room in general.From the entry direct
  • The television show was primarily directed toward a black audience, but it did have a few token white people as performers.From the entry token
  • A path x→y→z is a directed path.From the entry directed path
  • A directed graph (A, R) is a set of vertices A together with an incidence relation R: if aRb then there is an edge going from A to B.From the entry directed graph
  • The majority of the pages in the dissent are directed at an opinion no longer in existence.2021 July 14, Beverly B. Martin, “Drew Adams v. School Board of St. Johns County, Florida”, in Appeals from the United States District…. From the entry shadowbox
  • This is almost a modest example of the period praise directed at A Woman of Paris.2021, Wes D. Gehring, Charlie Chaplin and A Woman of Paris, page 5. From the entry emblazoned
  • Weisure, the blurring of work and leisure, was directed at the encroachment of work into rest.2015, Darrin Patrick, Amie Patrick, The Dude's Guide to Marriage: Ten Skills Every Husband Must Develop to Love His Wife Well. From the entry weisure
  • Thus we extend the theory of the directed subdifferential from quasidifferentiable to directed subdifferentiable functions.2015, Robert Baier, Elza Farkhi, Vera Roshchina, “From Quasidifferentiable to Directed Subdifferentiable Functions: Exact Calculus Rules”…. From the entry quasi-differentiable
  • Ignoring was defined as effect acts which were active ignorals or were directed at the actor (P).2014, J. Bruce Overmier, F. Robert Brush, Affect, Conditioning, and Cognition (PLE: Emotion), page 330. From the entry ignoral
  • Services should be directed towards user needs and desires in the current academic climate.2013, Brendan Ryan, “Preface”, in Optimizing Academic Library Services in the Digital Milieu: Digital Devices and Their Emerging Trends…. From the entry milieu
  • Their efforts were directed mainly southward toward Cuba, Mexico, and the Central American republics.2012, William H. Brown, “Central America, Filibusters”, in Thomas M. Leonard, editor, Encyclopedia of U.S.–Latin American Relations…. From the entry filibuster
  • The front-most spines are the shortest, stubbiest, and most forward directed.2009, George P. Hansen, Trilobites of Black Cat Mountain, iUniverse, page 249. From the entry stubby
  • Why is there still no popular reform movement directed against the problem of wildly unequal starts?2007, Kenneth Oldfield, “Achieving social class diversity throughout the workforce: A case study of TIAA-CREF”, in Kevin Cahill and Lene…. From the entry parentism
  • Because these uprisings were work-related and directed at employers, the state acted as mediary.2007, James M. Brophy, Popular Culture and the Public Sphere in the Rhineland, 1800-1850, →ISBN. From the entry mediary
  • A baby was crawling all over her, but her concentration, he noted, was directed towards him.2007, Tom Hougen, “Jungle Rot”, in Sea of Flesh: A Collection of Short Stories from a Slightly Off-Balanced Mind, [Bloomington, Ind.]…. From the entry monkeyese
  • The scammer is paid for each new visitor directed to his site.2005, Armando Ang, Greed & Scams, Inc. From the entry mousetrap
  • A directed graph is an alist associating vertices with edge lists.J. S. Moore and Q. Zhang, Proof Pearl: Dijkstra’s Shortest Path Algorithm Verified with ACL2, in Joe Hurd and Tom F. Melham (ed.), Theorem…. From the entry alist
  • Thrusts were directed there; major overfolds bulged outwards towards the north.2004, Richard Fortey, The Earth, Folio Society, published 2011, page 95. From the entry overfold
  • Matriculated, my favorite, is written and directed by Peter Chung. . . .2003 June 9, Bryan Walsh, “Movies: Enter The Animatrix”, in Time. From the entry brain candy
  • Classically, the functional product of coding genes is a protein whose synthesis is directed by an mRNA-template.2002, S. Lottin et al., “Thioredoxin post-transcriptional regulation by H19 provides a new function to mRNA-like non-coding RNA”, in…. From the entry template
  • Bakuvian plato has a shape of terraced amphitheater, directed to the bay of the same name.2002, Aliyev Ch. S., “Distribution of radioactivity on landscapes of Absheron peninsula”, in N. Birsen, Kairat K. Kadyrzhanov, editors…. From the entry Bakuvian
  • Directed by Howard Hawks, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes starred Marilyn Monroe as Lorelei and Jane Russell as Dorothy.2000, Tom Pendergast, Sara Pendergast, St. James encyclopedia of popular culture, volume 2, page 223. From the entry as
  • The 'make do and mend' campaign was the Board of Trade's central propaganda effort directed at housewives.2000 Ina Zweiniger-Bargielowska - Austerity in Britain: Rationing, Controls, and Consumption, 1939-1955. From the entry make do and mend
  • “SON OF SUALTIM,” written by Jason Eberhardt and directed by Ben Tevelow.2000 November 30, “Calendar: Thursday 30”, in The Recorder, 209th year, number 286, Greenfield, Mass., →OCLC, Arts & Entertainment…. From the entry Ultonian
  • Claustrophobias and fears of suffocation are often specially directed against fantasies of being in the mother's womb.1999, Otto Fenichel, Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis: International Library of Psychology, page 202. From the entry claustrophobias
  • Parking illumination in residential districts must be nonflashing and directed away from abutting lots.1998, D Gail Abbey, Buck Abbey, U.S. landscape ordinances: an annotated reference handbook. From the entry nonflashing
  • In one dimension change is directed toward the acrolect, the “typical” change in the creole continuum.1994, Michael Montgomery, The Crucible of Carolina, University of Georgia Press, →ISBN, page 60. From the entry acrolect
  • MEGO is usually directed at senior management by engineers and contains a high proportion of TLAs.1993 May 10, Eric Raymond, editor, The Jargon File. From the entry mego
  • He and the other leaders directed the crowds into the mass meeting at St.1989, Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63, page 771. From the entry foretide
  • The central ray is directed to a point just inferior to the acanthion.1987, D.M. Wilmot, Gail A. Sharko, Pediatric Imaging for the Technologist, page 114. From the entry acanthion
  • Spotlights were directed on the train until, half-way, Chinese spotlights took over.1986, Bob Geldof, “Divers Bends”, in Is That It?, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 174. From the entry Erh-lien-hao-t'e
  • The most disdain is directed toward the “shrinks” or the “spooks,” as the psychiatrists are called.1975, Robert O. Pasnau, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, page 124. From the entry spook

Meaning of directed

  1. adjective In a manner emphasizing one's point of view.
  2. adjective Having the properties of a directed graph.
  3. adjective Having the properties of a directed set.

Full definition of directed

Questions about directed in a sentence

How do you use directed in a sentence?
Directed is used as an adjective. For example: “Eyes Wide Shut was the last film to be directed by Stanley Kubrick.”
What is a short sentence with directed?
“A path x→y→z is a directed path.”
What does directed mean?
Directed means in a manner emphasizing one's point of view.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: directed (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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