noun
definition
A large slab of stone laid in a dry-stone wall from one side to the other; a perpend.
adjective
definition
Passing from one side of something to the other.
example
Interstate highways form a nationwide system of through roads.
definition
Finished; complete.
example
They were through with laying the subroof by noon.
definition
Without a future; done for.
example
After being implicated in the scandal, he was through as an executive in financial services.
definition
No longer interested; wearied or turned off by experience.
example
She was through with him.
definition
Proceeding from origin to destination without delay due to change of equipment.
example
The through flight through Memphis was the fastest.
definition
In possession of the ball beyond the last line of defence but not necessarily the goalkeeper; through on goal.
adverb
definition
From one side to the other by way of the interior.
example
The arrow went straight through.
definition
From one end to the other.
example
Others slept; he worked straight through.
definition
To the end.
example
He said he would see it through.
definition
Completely.
example
Leave the yarn in the dye overnight so the color soaks through.
definition
Out into the open.
example
The American army broke through at St. Lo.
preposition
definition
From one side of an opening to the other.
example
I went through the window.
definition
Entering, then later leaving.
example
I drove through the town at top speed without looking left or right.
definition
Surrounded by (while moving).
example
We slogged through the mud for hours before turning back and giving up.
definition
By means of.
example
This team believes in winning through intimidation.
definition
In consequence of; as a result of.
definition
To (or up to) and including, with all intermediate values.
example
from 1945 through 1991; the numbers 1 through 9; your membership is active through March 15, 2013
Examples of through in a Sentence
He ran a hand through his hair.
Soldiers were marching through the fields.
Are you sure you want to go through with this?
She ran a comb through her hair, deciding not to re-braid the top part.
As she passed his office, she glanced through the open door.
One day as he was riding through the woods, some British soldiers saw him.
I know, we've been all through this before - but I still don't understand.
Oddly, it still seemed reasonable even as we coasted through three red lights to get home.
All of us, through the choices we make.
One day a traveler was walking through a part of Italy where a great many sheep were pasturing.
He has given you wings with which to fly through the air.
Coldness ran through her.
Through it she heard the mumbling of the reverend, but not the words.
Or, through serendipity, scientists stumbled into things—with those "your chocolate is in my peanut butter" moments.
Through the door came the regular hum of a lathe.
She smiled at Pierre through her tears.
He led his armies through many countries.
Natasha, raising her face for a moment from her mother's mantilla, glanced up at her through tears of laughter, and again hid her face.
Let's not go through this again.
You processed the information through your ears.
This is that portion, also, where in the spring, the ice being warmed by the heat of the sun reflected from the bottom, and also transmitted through the earth, melts first and forms a narrow canal about the still frozen middle.
You've been through a lot.
All through the night he sat among the abbey cows, and sang his wonderful song.
They lived about a mile off through the woods, and were quite used to the route.
Once it chanced that I stood in the very abutment of a rainbow's arch, which filled the lower stratum of the atmosphere, tinging the grass and leaves around, and dazzling me as if I looked through colored crystal.
Natasha lifted her up, hugged her, and, smiling through her tears, began comforting her.
She opened her eyes and squinted up at him through the sunlight.
Imagine a computer culling through this massive amount of data, inconceivably large, and pulling out patterns.
Plunging through drifts, leaping hollows, swooping down upon the lake, we would shoot across its gleaming surface to the opposite bank.
On the one hand there is fear and regret for the loss of the whole edifice constructed through the ages, on the other is the passion for destruction.
I suppose that is because so many of my impressions come to me through the medium of others' eyes and ears.
When I was four years old, as I well remember, I was brought from Boston to this my native town, through these very woods and this field, to the pond.
Through this, whistling a tune, we took our way to the haunts of men again.
Both fell silent, peering out through the darkness at the sound of Dolokhov's and Petya's steps as they advanced to the fire leading their horses.
Giddon went back into the building and Lisa made her way through the darkening woods to the spot in the drive where she had entered.
She plodded on, willing herself to take each step, not thinking of the miles to go, but merely getting through one more painful step.
He turned his horse and started through the herd.
She sighed and wandered through the spotless kitchen.
The second is through the division of labor and free trade.
We are more than three-quarters of the way through our forty-three steps toward world peace.
I think that there are very few important communications made through it.
The government itself, which is only the mode which the people have chosen to execute their will, is equally liable to be abused and perverted before the people can act through it.
Coming out onto the road Dolokhov did not ride back across the open country, but through the village.
When Alex walked through the door, they were standing by the table, waiting on him.
She dressed hurriedly in the clothes Sarah had loaned her and ran fingers through her hair, wishing she had a comb.
She stepped through the last of the brush.
You've only been strangled nearly to death and gone through a terrible scare.
She crunched through the snow back to the house and removed her coat and boots before entering the living room.
He comes in through a hole in the floor.
Sofia listened and trailed them through the house that resembled a frat house.