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penetrate
The rescue team broke through the wall in the mine shaft
The sun broke through the clouds -
attain success or reach a desired goal
she struggled to overcome her handicap and won
The enterprise succeeded
We succeeded in getting tickets to the show -
succeed in reaching a real or abstract destination after overcoming problems
We finally got through the bureaucracy and could talk to the Minister -
continue in existence after (an adversity, etc.)
He survived the cancer against all odds
How To Use come through In A Sentence
- Despite the dark tint and moody atmosphere of the show, the set lights up in fluorescents and strong blues and yellows, and the colors come through strong.
- In her earlier, greater work, someone - in the end, among the disasters and the funny bits and the painful stumbles and everyone crashing out in some way - would have come through smiling.
- All farmers, landowners and parish councils in the National Park can apply for grants from the money which has come through Yorkshire and Humber Regional Development Agency.
- The reductions will come through voluntary departures and by leaving open positions unfilled. Times, Sunday Times
- The other players, the spear carriers, come through when unexpected.
- The question is how quickly new compounds can come through and take up the slack. Times, Sunday Times
- He did not even speak to her, but spoke to the governess of the Royal nursery and the schoolmaster and the servants who had come through the day, asking them about William's health and what he had eaten.
- Everyone is just praying for him to come through this. The Sun
- Slightly drier was the kirschwasser from Oregon's Clear Creek Distillery, and though the sweetness of the cherries doesn't quite come through, the fruit is front and center. Do They Taste of Trumpets?
- When he let his genuinely winning smile come through in that interchange with Ifill over her forgetting the order, he displayed a charm that could be used devastatingly to his advantage.