• At Teviec in Brittany a male burial had two flint points embedded in his spine.
• The rich material culture includes flint and bone projectile points, fishing equipment, and decorated bone and stone.

• He's astonished by the way dancers on point don't wobble.
• Ballet's use of point shoes is not intended to cripple the dancer's feet.

• Harry hit him on the point of his chin.
• I caught him on the point and knocked him backward.
• She concentrated hard to gather her wits, and when Frank paused, slammed a right uppercut to the point of his chin.

• There is a stuffed deer in the Nature House at the Nature Park, a small buck with two points on each antler.
• Since then the head has been examined by experts and is found to have antlers with 16 points.
• His antlers have seven points.

• Six point nine percent, that's a nine-year high.
• I undid my seat belt and hopped out of the car in my usual two point nine seconds.
• Ninety-nine point nine percent of the people were interested and enthusiastic and the attitude was very favourable.

• Before the Babylonian system of punctuation was discovered, it was believed that the Tiberian system of vowel points was the only one the Jews had ever invented.

• She glanced up at the sky studded with the millions of tiny points of light not seen from the city and marveled, as always, at the vastness.
• The points of light are collected and used to reconstruct a 3D digital image.
• From that terracing came a continual glinting of points of light as innumerable cigarettes were lit.

Synonyms

• There comes a point in the refurbishment process where the law of diminishing returns come into play.
• There are three points in this process at which learning can potentially play a role.
• From the point of conception onwards, parents are now viewed as a risk factor in their children's lives.

Synonyms

• When it came to the point, little economic or social and no military action was taken.
• Conversation ceases to resolve the internal contention between characters, words fail and the conflict comes to the point.
• He talks and talks, but when it comes to the point he either does nothing or he's just evasive.

Synonyms

• But often the outcry over the loss of a rural post office only starts when it has closed or is on the point of closing.
• The club last night appeared to be on the point of calling in the receivers.
• Relief was clear because the tour had seemed on the point of foundering.

Synonyms

• The company appears to be on target to hit a cashflow break-even point by the end of the year.
• The Festival reaches climax point on Sunday with something for all the family.
• The company has slipped back into the red just three months after crowing that it had reached break-even point.

Synonyms

• We were in a metal box with gas bottles, connected to an electrical hook-up point.
• A fast wireless access point means you can connect your laptop to the machine and roam around the house.
• The drawings also show electrical points for television equipment, speakers and telephones in the pool surround.

• Every point on these lines has the same properties as the end-point on the N border.
• The arrow in Fig.4A denotes the point of intersection used for sensitivity analyses.

• They put their ideas and points across very eloquently.
• He/she who needs to resort to violence to prove a point, has a poor argument.
• He made some very valid points in his argument.

Synonyms

• Surely the point is that rules and guidelines like this are to be applauded whatever the source.
• Whatever its deficiencies, the point was that it was inclusive, not divisive.
• Grant says the point is that no one knows what it's like to be Lauren or what's going on inside her head.

• There's no point in buying a new dishwasher just as you're about to move house.
• There's no point in being the most skilful player, if you can't keep yourself on the field of play.
• There is no point in moaning about it.

Synonyms

• As well as giving point to the subject, experience of algebraic representation is crucial if pupils are to understand and use precise algebraic language.
• His remarks were always full of point, clearness, and good sense.

• They may want to create rich characters that have good points as well as bad ones.
• The reception rooms, large garden and garage are likely to prove key selling points.
• The spacious master bedroom is on the top floor and should prove a key selling point.

Synonyms

• The polls had a margin of error of four percentage points.
• The figure represents an increase of 7.7 percentage points from last year.
• However, the news isn't all good: gross margins slipped by 0.3 percentage points year on year.

• Napoleon won his point that bishops and clergy should be paid salaries by the state.
• I could go on, but I think I've made my point.
• I felt then like I would never go back to work until we had won our point.

• For every special initiative they are credited with further points.
• I wouldn't let a few points off of my credit score keep me from purchasing a home.
• If she receives the required points, Deirdre hopes to study Forensic Science.

• Because he is a producer as well as an actor you can be sure he has points in the film.
• All the cast and crew will be paid when the film gets sold, and core cast and crew have points in the film should it return a profit.

• If the Elder has at least four cards in a suit, he may make a declaration. For example, ‘Point of four’.

• Even a one-point difference in a diamond's weight can dramatically affect its value.
• The point system provides a convenient – and more impressive – way of describing diamonds that are less than one carat.

• When message boards first took off in the mid 90s, postings like that could send stock up or down several points in a day.
• It seems hard to believe that just a short year ago the Nasdaq was over 5,000 points and climbing.

• After a claim, the claiming player's tricks are exposed and the card points are counted.
• On each deal, there is a target score which depends on the number of high card points held.
• The result of the hand depends on the number of card points won by the opponents.

• At various distances and points of the compass, he could see other men holding red and white striped poles.
• After missing a couple of early sighters, Carter kicked goals from all points of the compass.

• Passengers for points west could go through without stopping to change cars.
• He hit the road for points east.
• We would rent out our house in Ireland and use that income to explore North America, then buy a camper van and travel down to Mexico, and all points south.

• Point does not chat with cover-point.

• He was robbed of what looked a certain goal when he moved in from the point was stopped by a big block.
• She skated in from her position at the point to collect a pass in the right circle.

• Who wants to walk point today?
• I know the layout of the town best, so I'll ride point.

• The hounds made an eight mile point in a little over 45 minutes.
• My maternal grandfather was 84 when he died, having ridden a five-mile point to hounds barely six weeks before.
• There was much gnashing of teeth, as there were but eight riders with them, and it was a point of eight miles.

• At Castle Place the Coney Island sign is pointing in the wrong direction which must be very confusing for visitors.
• They all now came down to a brown old sign that pointed in two directions.
• Consumer spending indicators are pointing down.

• ‘Back away,’ Floyd directed, pointing a large stick of chalk at Kyle.
• He is pictured pointing his weapon at his colleague.
• It is tempting to try a few long exposure shots provided you don't have an unwary fellow-guest pointing his flash light at you.

Synonyms

• Stand erect with feet slightly wider than shoulder width, toes pointing slightly outward.
• My feet are set about shoulder width, the toes pointed slightly outward.
• Four giant white spotlights were illuminated from the top of each gantry, pointing upwards towards the sky.

• It also points to the fact that work by women has been neglected on the stage of one of our foremost theatres.
• For the next few weeks at least all the directional indicators are pointing to blood in the hencoop.
• There are many facts pointing to sweeping climatic changes in the Earth's distant past.

Synonyms

• The Coroner, in pointing the moral, condemned the sale at hucksters' shops of cheap, pernicious cigarettes and said the case should be a warning to boys addicted to cigarette smoking.
• He points his words with barbs of humor to make them stick.
• She leant across the table and pointed her remarks with her knitting needles.

• I have found this discussion very interesting with solid guidance for pointing the psalms and choosing psalm tones.
• This effect probably owes something to her experience of churchgoing, from which she would have learnt the Anglican practice of ‘pointing’ psalms.