INDIRECT in a Sentence
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31 example sentences for INDIRECT, such as:
1. The benefits from pure research are often indirect.
2. The new law will affect us all, directly or indirectly.
3. Losing weight is an indirect result of smoking cigarettes.
4. It was indirectly due to Cody that Gatsby drank so little.
5. There would be some benefit, however indirect, to the state.
2. The new law will affect us all, directly or indirectly.
3. Losing weight is an indirect result of smoking cigarettes.
4. It was indirectly due to Cody that Gatsby drank so little.
5. There would be some benefit, however indirect, to the state.
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Meanings and Examples of INDIRECT
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indirect
a. extended senses; not direct in manner or language or behavior or action
a. not as a direct effect or consequence
Classic Sentence: (20 in 2 pages)
1 Anything which may seem to have a bearing however indirect upon the case, and especially the relations between young Baskerville and his neighbours or any fresh particulars concerning the death of Sir Charles.
2 Because it seemed to me to have an indirect bearing upon the mystery of Woodman's Lee.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
Context Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER
3 Probably those damp walls would soon have eased me of her charge: but to each villain his own vice; and mine is not a tendency to indirect assassination, even of what I most hate.
4 Mrs. Trenor evidently assumed that Lily's growing intimacy with her husband was simply an indirect way of returning her own kindness.
5 Their threats were, however, mingled with some sort of indirect apology for the defeat of the two of them by a feeble madman.
6 Thus the associations for the liberty of the press, for individual liberty, for the instruction of the people against indirect taxes.
Les Misérables 4 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER V—FACTS WHENCE HISTORY SPRINGS AND WHICH HISTORY ...
7 That is to say, they take their meals in the captain's cabin, and sleep in a place indirectly communicating with it.
8 Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet.
9 It is certain that the mouth indirectly communicates with the spouting canal; but it cannot be proved that this is for the purpose of discharging water through the spiracle.
10 Hereby perhaps Stubb indirectly hinted, that though man loved his fellow, yet man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.
11 It has before been hinted, perhaps, that every little untoward circumstance that befell him, and which indirectly sprang from his luckless mishap, almost invariably irritated or exasperated Ahab.
12 It employed thirty thousand men; it supported directly two hundred and fifty thousand people in its neighborhood, and indirectly it supported half a million.
13 He already showed that thought is a disease of flesh, and indirectly bore evidence that ideal physical beauty is incompatible with emotional development and a full recognition of the coil of things.
14 An exposure would profit me indirectly to a considerable extent.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan Doyle
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
Context Highlight In VII. THE ADVENTURE OF CHARLES AUGUSTUS MILVERTON
15 It was indirectly due to Cody that Gatsby drank so little.
Example Sentence:
1 Losing weight is an indirect result of smoking cigarettes.
2 There would be some benefit, however indirect, to the state.
3 The building collapsed as an indirect result of the heavy rain and storms.
4 Businesses are feeling the indirect effects from the recession that'sgoing on elsewhere.
5 The help that the government gives the industry amounts to an indirect subsidy.
6 The increase in indirect taxation is intended to neutralise the reduction in income tax.
7 Labor Party leaders have denounced the talk as an attempt by the right to escape indirect blame for the assassination.
8 The benefits from pure research are often indirect.
9 The new law will affect us all, directly or indirectly.
10 Perhaps I was indirectly responsible for the misunderstanding.
11 "Wild" may be a misnomer. The malicious starting of fires is as old as the human fascination with flame and many of the fires may be directly or indirectly caused by humans.