[
US
/ˈθɹu/
]
[ UK /θɹˈuː/ ]
[ UK /θɹˈuː/ ]
ADVERB
-
throughout the entire extent
I'm frozen through
boards rotten through and through
knew him through and through
got soaked through in the rain
a letter shot through with the writer's personality -
in diameter
this cylinder measures 15 inches through -
to completion
think this through very carefully! -
from beginning to end
read this book through -
over the whole distance
this bus goes through to New York
ADJECTIVE
-
having finished or arrived at completion
after the treatment, the patient is through except for follow-up
it's a done deed
almost through with his studies
certain to make history before he's done -
(of a route or journey etc.) continuing without requiring stops or changes
a through street
through traffic
a through bus
How To Use through In A Sentence
- He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
- Druses were common throughout the mesophyll tissues, and peltate, glandular trichomes were present on both epidermises.
- When the moment finally comes, one look through his cataract lenses is all it takes. Christianity Today
- Academic excellence was matched with extra-curricular activities of every description - from drama through sport to foreign travel.
- It's not because I'm worried about what they might think, or anything ridiculous like that, it's because in a lot of cases this material was intended for me alone - either through an oral tradition or as a gnostic revelation from the spirits.
- There are a few formalities to be gone through before you enter a foreign country.
- A spokesman said: ‘Snow will continue through the day with a few dry interludes and it will slowly improve by the afternoon with snow turning more showery.’
- My poor Lirriper was a handsome figure of a man, with a beaming eye and a voice as mellow as a musical instrument made of honey and steel, but he had ever been a free liver being in the commercial travelling line and travelling what he called a limekiln road — “a dry road, Emma my dear,” my poor Lirriper says to me, “where I have to lay the dust with one drink or another all day long and half the night, and it wears me Emma” — and this led to his running through a good deal and might have run through the turnpike too when that dreadful horse that never would stand still for a single instant set off, but for its being night and the gate shut and consequently took his wheel, my poor Lirriper and the gig smashed to atoms and never spoke afterwards. Mrs. Lirriper's Lodgings
- It also contains a series of waterfalls and cascades to further enhance the beauty of a hole that is certain to generate a lot of comment throughout the week.
- On the ranges of Fort Devens, the troops were put through their paces on US weapons, from the stock-in-trade M16 assault rifle to the frighteningly-effective M249 SAW light machine gun.
