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A way is how someone does something. The committee made a good decision about which way to make the machine. One way to cook food is to put it in an oven; another way is with a flame. I do things my own way. That way of thinking will not solve the problem. Farming is a great way of life. A car crash was the same way my dad died. A way is a style. She dresses that way every day. I started to see things in a different way. A way is a path, a road, or a route; how you get to a certain place. Do you know the way to the lunch room? I was on my way to Paris when I got lost. He went out of his way to bring me the coffee. It's a long way from where I started. Could you move your car out of my way?

way

very far I think that it's way too early to tell what the result will be. We missed. In fact we were way way off.

way

(= manner, mode, style, fashion) how something is done or how it happens her dignified manner his rapid manner of talking their nomadic mode of existence in the characteristic New York style a lonely way of life in an abrasive fashion (= means, agency) how a result is obtained or an end is achieved a means of control an example is the best agency of instruction the true way to success (= direction) a line leading to a place or point he looked the other direction didn't know the way home the condition of things generally that's the way it is I felt the same way (= path) a course of conduct the path of virtue we went our separate ways our paths in life led us apart genius usually follows a revolutionary path any artifact consisting of a road or path affording passage from one place to another he said he was looking for the way out a journey or passage they are on the way (= room, elbow room) space for movement room to pass make way for hardly enough elbow room to turn around (= right smart) to a great degree or by a great distance; very much ('right smart' is regional in the United States) way over budget way off base the other side of the hill is right smart steeper than the side we are on the property of distance in general it's a long way to Moscow he went a long ways doing as one pleases or chooses if I had my way a general category of things; used in the expression 'in the way of' they didn't have much in the way of clothing a portion of something divided into shares they split the loot three ways

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Simple sentences

You are in my way.
Round trip? Only one-way.
I'm fixing the radio which I found on my way home.
I lost my purse on my way to school.
John met Mary on his way to school.
Which way is the beach?
By the way, where do you live?
Tennis is difficult. I never know which way the ball is going to fly.
It is long way to the town.
We ran out of gas on the way there.
If you should come this way again, please drop in.
This is the couple who showed me the way.
This is always the way it has been.
It's always been that way.
I think my living with you has influenced your way of living.
If you didn't know me that way then you simply didn't know me.
Can it be phrased in another way?
Doing math is the only socially acceptable way to masturbate in public.
Shut the door on your way out.
Close the door on your way out.
The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.
No way!
That way I kill two birds with one stone.
The only way on Earth to multiply happiness is to divide it.
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Where there's a will, there's a way.

Movie subtitles

Your mom is that kind of lady. Anything that gets in her way, children or else?
Then, did he come to find me all the way from Australia?
Even if you like me that much. All the way from Australia. Why would you come all this way?
Hey, but our house is this way.
But why did he look at me that way?
C.C.-san came all the way here to see you.
Please get out of the way!
Don't get in the way!
No way. right?
Halt! Out of my way!
The West taught the rest its way of doing business. its scientific method. its law and its politics, its way of dressing. of speaking and of praying.
The only way to answer that question is to understand how the West came to be so powerful in the first place.
No way.
What about that band of nebulous light, the Milky Way?
We, the stars, the Milky Way, the nebulae?
And one of those questions caught his attention early on: the properties of the ensemble of stars we see in the sky, the Milky Way Galaxy.
Thanks to this discovery he established his name even more so, which helped him pursue his plans for further research on the Milky Way Galaxy in collaboration with institutions abroad.
It explained the Milky Way.
It became clear that the spiral nebulae must be very tar away way beyond the borders of the Kapteyn Universe.
In the end of 1950 he came to work at the Dutch Foundation for Radio-emission from the Sun and the Milky Way Galaxy.
Once this was finished, in June 1952, the first large survey along the Milky Way equator started.
We mapped the Milky Way.
In this survey we not only observed along the Milky Way equator, but also 10 degrees above and 10 degrees below. We observed several hundreds of positions.
The easiest way is just to use a catcher.
Nick's always told us none of us can get involved with the peanut racket, and there's no way I'm going to betray Nick for a kiss on the cheek for a lousy seven seconds.
Look, Nick, what Johnny's doing is wrong, but the way the whole peanut trade works is even wronger.
The only way to end the cycle is to change the way the whole system works. What are you saying?
Yeah, but now that we're running it, we can do it right, with epi-injector sites and fair prices, because the way Frankie and Mickey were doing it, someone was bound to get hurt, and not just the allergic kids.
That's just the way it works.
After the way you've treated me?
But just when it looked like bud's team had the game in the bag, Frankie found a way to change the rules of the to change the rules of the game.
But every once in a while, things do go the right way.
Nah. Just bitching about the food and the way they treat people.
There's no easy way of saying this, OK, so I'm just going to say it straight out.
Scott has never felt this way about a girl before.
You just find a way to make it work despite whatever comes up. Hey, Lydia.

News and current affairs

Growth is, in the first place, the best way to reduce the country's budget deficits.
The most important way to achieve both objectives is to increase exports by strengthening US competitiveness.
He never found his way back, and when confronted with the New Politics of primaries and populism, he became dispirited when he could not cope with this new style.
Those civil rights initiatives on the part of NATO reflect the increasingly workmanlike way that Russia, Europe, and America now work out their disagreements.
All too often, the fight is about turf, rather than about the most effective way to speed help to the poor.
But is the Gates affair the right way to enter into this discussion?
It doesn't have to be this way.
That way, the power of competitive markets can ensure that, once a drug is developed, it is made available at the lowest possible price - not at an inflated monopoly price.
The voter-turnout problem partly reflects frustration about the present state of the EU, and also people's impression that they can exert little influence by voting one way or the other.
Instead, I believe that the most important way to reawaken voters' interest in European elections will be to open up the election of the Commission's President to them, and create a genuinely Europe-wide political debate during the next election campaign.
In this way we can break free of the institutionalised tug of war that has characterised EU relations.
But I don't want to block their way.
Less certain is whether he will feel secure enough to hold a presidential election (or any other kind of election) if he cannot change the constitution in a way that guarantees his continued misrule.
But, even as Europe's leaders promised that help was on the way, they doubled down on the belief that non-crisis countries must cut spending.
By contrast, 2009 is likely to pave the way to a new form of bipolarity, but with China substituting for the Soviet Union.
Reducing deficits in order to raise the debt ceiling was the right thing to do, but the August 2 law does it in the wrong way.
But that is often the way that European integration proceeds: an incomplete step in one area later requires further steps in related areas.
Both have saved millions of lives during the past decade, and have paved the way to a new more efficient and scientifically sound method of development assistance.
Outrage about a professor who is not to be messed with is not the best way to discuss the plight of countless, poor, anonymous people, whom most of us find it too easy to ignore.
I have no doubt that those involved were seeking a way forward that would allow for a full investigation and help overcome the political divisiveness currently undermining the Human Rights Council within the UN system.
During the heyday of Irish terrorism in the UK, successive British governments went out of their way not to concede to the IRA the notion that a war was being waged.
In this way, both the Israelis and the Palestinians share a secret fear - for some, a belief - that each has no intention of accepting the other's right to a country of their own.
Peter Kenen argued in the late 1960's that without exchange-rate movements as a shock absorber, a currency union requires fiscal transfers as a way to share risk.
Many Germans today rightly feel that any system of fiscal transfers will morph into a permanent feeding tube, much the way that northern Italy has been propping up southern Italy for the last century.