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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 that lash-up has been very tight and will continue to be that way.
    — Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 11 Jan. 2024
  • At least that’s my view—the Apple execs don’t see it that way.
    — Steven Levy, WIRED, 19 Jan. 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
  • For Judge Judy, falling in love — and staying that way — isn't all that hard of a task.
    — Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 21 June 2024
  • Everyone wants to see themselves in the world in that way.
    — David Oliver, USA TODAY, 31 May 2023
  • Not everyone sees them that way though, and to each their own.
    — Drew Dawson, Journal Sentinel, 9 Jan. 2024
  • The Chiefs seem plenty happy things turned out that way, too.
    — Jesse Newell, Kansas City Star, 26 Apr. 2024
  • Whether it is shown that way or not, that's my feelings and that was our story.
    — Joelle Goldstein, Peoplemag, 14 Mar. 2024
  • Things do not always work that way, LW, being a case in point.
    — Amy Dickinson, Washington Post, 23 Apr. 2023
  • The whole project was really quite a fun journey in that way.
    — Gerrad Hall, EW.com, 31 May 2023
  • Yet the scorching heat of the past two months will once again rebound throughout this week and stay that way.
    — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 14 July 2024
  • The tart emerges from the oven with a crisp, buttery crust that stays that way for hours, perfect for making ahead.
    — Melissa Clark, New York Times, 24 May 2023
  • Obsessed is an album meant to be heard that way — in reflection, away from the call of the world.
    — Marissa R. Moss, Rolling Stone, 21 June 2024
  • If the congressman was decent, the staff tended to act that way too.
    — Jay Nordlinger, National Review, 7 Dec. 2023
  • But Schneider said people shouldn't go that route or think that way.
    — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 14 July 2024
  • No one attacks him that way anymore, so he’s shelved the party trick.
    — Zach Buchanan, New York Times, 28 July 2023
  • To not ever be in a nine-year f---in' relationship and end it that way.
    — Esther Kang, Peoplemag, 31 Jan. 2024
  • At the officers’ request, Parsons waited at the end of the farmer’s lane in case Sheri walked that way.
    — Marisa Kwiatkowski, USA TODAY, 14 May 2024
  • There’s no give up in this team and it’s been that way all year long and even today when things didn’t go our way in the fourth quarter.
    — Darren Lauber, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 3 Mar. 2024
  • Yet so many people will go above and beyond to make others feel that way.
    — Grace Gavilanes, Peoplemag, 8 Dec. 2023
  • But that dream always had a threat implicit, for those who viewed it that way.
    — Nathaniel Meyersohn, CNN, 5 Aug. 2023
  • So effectively a chimp will pant just like a dog to evaporate the saliva off their tongue to take the body heat out into the atmosphere that way.
    — Chris Klimek, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 July 2024
  • For example, defined that way, 62% of Americans would be working class, which is far too broad.
    — Kathryn A. Edwards, Twin Cities, 31 July 2024

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