How To Use Through and through In A Sentence

  • Thus has he—and many more of the same bevy, that I know the drossy age dotes on—only got the tune of the time and outward habit of encounter, a kind of yesty collection which carries them through and through the most fond and winnowed opinions; and do but blow them to their trial, the bubbles are out. Act V. Scene II. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
  • Conmee on Christass, lame crutch and leg sailor in cockboat armfolded ropepulling hitching stamp hornpipe through and through. Ulysses
  • Freddie is a team player through and through, so he must feel that it will help the side to gel. Times, Sunday Times
  • The trumpet rang out the "assemblee" and thrilled both through and through, sending them to the arm-press for rifle and bandolier. A Dash from Diamond City
  • The unfortunate Native, expressing no opinion, suffered dreadfully; not merely in his moral feelings, which were regularly fusilladed by the Major every hour in the day, and riddled through and through, but in his sensitiveness to bodily knocks and bumps, which was kept continually on the stretch. Dombey and Son
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  • For floor construction the choice is between solid floors, which are timber through and through, and engineered floors, which have a top layer of hardwood mounted on cross laid softwood or on plywood.
  • The article about our town in the tabloid on Sunday week last was negativity through and through, depicting a picture of Dungarvan that certainly is alien to me.
  • Well, she's a trouper through and through, that's for sure.
  • This brought an unsuppressed hoot of laughter from Judy but she knows it is just Andy through and through.
  • The famous bridge was cleft through and through, and a thousand picked men -- Parma's very "daintiest" -- were blown out of existence. PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete
  • It isn't, as with digital effects, that some components of the shot are manufactured, while others are allegedly ‘real’; everything partakes of both qualities, through and through.
  • The latter, with the 75 millimetre quick-firing gun, is particularly adapted to following up the results of the aeroplane's reconnaissance, especially with the system of rafale fire, because the whole position can be searched through and through within a minute or two. Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War
  • Unlike Wellington, Harriett was a political animal through and through, whose ambition was that her men should succeed.
  • And where the plain linoleum ended, but where the overlapping border covered the floor, the planks were sawn through and through down one side of the central and self-colored square. Stingaree
  • Freddie is a team player through and through, so he must feel that it will help the side to gel. Times, Sunday Times
  • With a name like the Casa Alberto you'd expect this to be an Italian restaurant through and through.
  • I shed my pack, kept my weapon and started running full out up the saddleback, then something tugged at my right side, i had caught a round A through and through gunshot wound. Ronald dean douglas
  • The former wife of a racehorse trainer, a countrywoman through and through, says she's now thinking of moving away.
  • Armed with an expression resembling a baboon, he wanted the world to know he was a g-h-e-t-t-o thug through and through. Blue Rage, Black Redemption
  • With a name like the Casa Alberto you'd expect this to be an Italian restaurant through and through.
  • If Donald was a Labour man, he was also a Glaswegian through and through.
  • As the title suggests, Howard is a bounder through and through, pathologically compelled to lie, cheat and deceive, suckering men and women alike, all of whom fall for his suave manner and Savile Row suits.
  • Unlike Wellington, Harriett was a political animal through and through, whose ambition was that her men should succeed.
  • interfused" with the world, which is full of stubborn distinctness, but permeating it through and through, "curled inextricably round about" all its beauty and its power, [92] "intertwined" with earth's lowliest existence, and thrilling with answering rapture to every throb of life. Robert Browning
  • I read with avidity of his great exploits, his hand-to-hand combats at Monterey, his refusal to surrender, and the escape of his entire command at Fort Donelson, when all could have marched away had they been as determined and fearless as he; of Shiloh, where he rode in among Sherman's infantry, who jabbed bayonets at him and his bold troopers and shot him through and through as he sabered them right With Sabre and Scalpel. The Autobiography of a Soldier and Surgeon
  • It is just because I see too well that I am obliged to bandage my eyes; I see with bandaged eyes just as well as others with unbandaged eyes; and if I unbandage them I look everything through and through, and when I gaze sharply at anything it catches fire and bursts into flame, and what can't burn splits into pieces. Folk Tales Every Child Should Know
  • My mother is Irish through and through.
  • It is just because I see too well that I am obliged to bandage my eyes; I see with bandaged eyes just as well as others with unbandaged eyes; and if I unbandage them I look everything through and through, and when I gaze sharply at anything, it catches fire and bursts into flame, and what can't burn splits into pieces. Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources
  • He was a Borderer through and through and repeatedly declined BBC offers to move south to present and commentate on other sports. Giving evidence to the Chilcot inquiry, Tony Blair said: “I...
  • Indeed you can assume that PIM-data sync is almost always carried through and through; but file sync very often is interrupted (because transferring files across the network is slow!) and people will then wonder where there data is. Why Sync Is So Difficult
  • Such things are “but shadowy pretences with which we bedaub each other and repay our mutual debts; but we cannot repay them, but increase rather, the debt owed to that Great Judge who rips our tattered rags from our pudenda and really sees us through and through, right down to our innermost and most secret filth.” Montaigne Explains the Birds and the Bees « So Many Books
  • Between these extremes are cases in which the capsular and synovial layer are extensively lacerated without involvement of the bones, and others in which the bones are implicated without serious damage being done to ligaments or synovial layer -- for example, by a bullet passing through and through the cancellated part of one of the constituent bones, or by a fissure extending into the articular surface. Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.
  • At its root, Kingsbury Manx offers pleasant, melodic pop that is polished through and through.
  • There is Samsara, with it's minimalistic yet rich melange of jasmine, sandalwood and vanilla; Songes, shamelessly floral through and through with jasmine, frangipanni and powdery-sweet vanilla foundation; or Ormonde Jayne's airy and light rendition of Frangipanni Absolute. Archive 2008-06-01
  • And, so saying, I merely went from carte to tierce, and as he recovered wildly and parried widely I returned to carte, took the opening, and drove home heart-high and through and through. Chapter 11
  • knew him through and through
  • He was a gentleman through and through, and his behaviour towards her had never been less than proper.
  • I've gotten my feet thoroughly soaked and feel frozen through and through.
  • Now it was, it is clear, that the sword of sorrow pierced her through and through, for the Queen of martyrs was fearfully and mortally wounded in that part which is impassible, that is, in her soul; and she bore the death of the Cross in that which could not die, suffering all the more her grievous inward death, as outward death departed farther from her. Meditations on the Life and Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
  • This little animal is known from start to finish, known inside out, known from head to tail and all stations in between, known through and through ‘O frabjous day!’ THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH
  • Iron is said to be a diathermanous body (from dia, through, and thermo, I heat), meaning that it gets heated through and through, and accordingly contains a large quantity of real heat. Literary Blunders; A chapter in the "History of Human Error"
  • They are soaked through and through with that old strain of English puritanism that looks on pleasure as a mortal danger. THE INNOCENTS AT HOME (A SUPERINTENDENT KENWORTHY NOVEL)
  • He was apparently a difficult man to deal with but always Burnley through and through.
  • I've gotten my feet thoroughly soaked and feel frozen through and through.
  • James Ackley loved to ride horses, and he was a cowhand through and through.
  • The figure was soaked through and through in his coat that ought to have been protecting him from the pitiless storm.
  • He was a gentleman through and through, and his behaviour towards her had never been less than proper.
  • The writer was a cockney through and through, and the story behind his creation is a particularly novel one.
  • Grace said ... even though i'm southern through and through, i could care less whether sweet or tart apples are used as the filling of a crisp. for me, the topping is the most important part, and this one's a winner. Cinnamon Apple Crisp Topped with Vanilla Cream
  • A final characteristic that makes an overview of Joseph Ratzinger's theology difficult is the fact that his theology is a dialogical theology through and through -- a theology that develops not only through a listening to what the sources have to say, but also through a critical conversation with other perspectives, a conversation that is not afraid to identify errors and sometimes to argue quite polemically. "Key Aspects of the Theology of Professor Joseph Ratzinger"
  • boards rotten through and through
  • At last a copeck rolled upon the ground, and the miserable creature — his mutilated arms, with their sleeves wet through and through, held out before him — stopped perplexed in the roadway and vanished from my sight. Boyhood
  • And through and through the ship his lightning glid, 585 Twelfth Book
  • From the central heartwood to the outer bark it was as solid as a rock - thick healthy wood through and through.
  • But let it be understood how we came to say that body passing through and through another body must produce disintegration, while we make qualities pervade their substances without producing disintegration: the bodilessness of qualities is the reason. The Six Enneads.
  • Incidentally, one of the fascinating differences between O'Neal, who died on Sept. 11, and Scheuer, is that O'Neal was a "legalist" through and through, devoted to building criminal cases that would stand up in court, whereas Scheuer wanted to kill bin Laden regardless of the amount of "collateral damage" that might be generated in deaths of civilians or, in one instance, Arab princes gathered with bin Laden in Afghanistan. Balkinization
  • The man in charge is a countryman through and through, who enjoys getting the country message across to visitors.
  • But I was a dasher through and through, and anything beyond a quarter mile nearly killed me.
  • For this reason, mainly, the British Commonwealth or scheme of life which we hope we are going to hand on enriched, is through and through a democratic thing and we think we know all about democracy. The Commonwealth as Educator
  • But the strangest thing about them was, that in every picture the canvas about the head was pricked through and through in scores of places with very fine clean holes, and, looking around in his marvel, he found an arbalist or cross-bow, with some very sharp bolts, and was so led to conjecture that some one had been setting these heads of the Protector up as a target, and shooting bolts at them. The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...
  • I'll say one thing for Sandra - she's a professional through and through.
  • Not only is it of Keira Knightley, the film’s greatest virtue, but it just beams joyfulness, which is something “Pride & Prejudice” radiates through and through. Design of a Decade: The Greatest Hits of the '00s - Part II

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