Word Finder - thus

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(manner) In this way or manner.

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If you throw the ball thus, as I’m showing you, you’ll have better luck hitting the target.

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As a result.

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I have all the tools I need; thus, I will be able to fix the car without having to call a mechanic.

Thus they stood and waited for what appeared to be the reading of a will.

He accepted her offer and thus became Under Sheriff of Ouray County, Colorado.

Thus he learns that words name things and actions and feelings.

I have thus a tight shingled and plastered house, ten feet wide by fifteen long, and eight-feet posts, with a garret and a closet, a large window on each side, two trap doors, one door at the end, and a brick fireplace opposite.

She was thus occupied when Alex joined her.

Napoleon advanced farther and we retired, thus arriving at the very result which caused his destruction.

Thus it is that my friends have made the story of my life.

Thus their evening began on a pleasant note and ended much the same.

It can take growth for granted and thus overtax.

Over time, Amazon has achieved such scale and thus has collected so much data that their suggestions are really useful.

Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.

Today, an astonishing 77 percent of the people in the world have mobile devices and thus access to all kinds of better care via telemedicine.

Having read thus far, Princess Mary sighed and glanced into the mirror which stood on her right.

Young Indian elephants are hairy, thus showing affinity with the mammoth.

When he had read thus far, he crumpled the letter up and threw it away.

Thus in a time of trouble ever memorable to him after the birth of their first child who was delicate, when they had to change the wet nurse three times and Natasha fell ill from despair, Pierre one day told her of Rousseau's view, with which he quite agreed, that to have a wet nurse is unnatural and harmful.

This high-end restaurant is pricey, and thus is probably appropriate for a special occasion.

The latter are dug up with the tusks; the left one being generally employed in this service, and thus becoming much more worn than its fellow.

The eastern headwaters of the Senegal thus drain a large area adjacent to the upper Niger.

It thus serves as an entrepot for much of the commerce between Atlantic and Pacific ports, and between the interior towns of Central and South America and the cities of Europe and the United States.

Habitual crime is thus to be treated as a disease.

Thus at Ozieri the men wear ordinary jackets and trousers with a velvet waistcoat; the shepherds of the Sulcis wear short black trousers without kilt and heavy black sheepskin coats, and the two rows of waistcoat buttons are generally silver or copper coins.

Communication is thus most wanted with the northern and south-eastern extremities of the island, and between Tortoli and Nuoro, and Nuoro and Golfo degli Aranci.

Thus in the perfection of man, as in the nature of God, will and intellect must be united.

Thus at high temperatures a helium thermometer is of no special advantage.

Taps to baths and lavatories should be connected to the main services by a flow and return pipe so that hot water is constantly flowing past the tap, thus enabling hot water to be obtained immediately.

He showed that not only as regards beasts, but also as regards birds, these regions are thus sharply limited.

In fact, the book could survive for centuries, as could new perfect copies of the book, and thus the ideas could be distributed.

Thus attired I went down to help entertain the company.

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labor of my hands, and I found that, by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

I thus warmed myself by the still glowing embers which the summer, like a departed hunter, had left.

They will come regularly every evening to particular trees, where the cunning sportsman lies in wait for them, and the distant orchards next the woods suffer thus not a little.

Thus they circle until they fall upon the recent trail of a fox, for a wise hound will forsake everything else for this.

Boris was thus the first to learn the news that the French army had crossed the Niemen and, thanks to this, was able to show certain important personages that much that was concealed from others was usually known to him, and by this means he rose higher in their estimation.

Thus the captain touchingly recounted the story of his love for a fascinating marquise of thirty-five and at the same time for a charming, innocent child of seventeen, daughter of the bewitching marquise.

The rate of loss of charge is thus largely dependent on the extent to which ions are present in the surrounding air.

Thus in Hungary, in 1902 and 1903, out of 229 persons killed, at least 171 were killed out of doors.

Thus, ceteris paribus, deaths from lightning are much more numerous in a country than in an industrial population.

We do not, however, know its date, save that, if not Domitian's work, it was carried out soon after his death, and the whole frontier thus constituted was reorganized, probably by Hadrian, with a continuous wooden palisade reaching from Rhine to Danube.

Thus the ancient Greek religion was especially disposed to belief in heroes and demigods.

It is thus different from legal fiction, by which a new rule is introduced surreptitiously, and under the pretence that no change has been made in the law, and from statutory legislation, in which the obligatory force of the rule is not supposed to depend upon its intrinsic fitness.

He would thus have married and had at least one child, from whom the contemporary of Pliny was descended.

Thus the restoration and interpretation of the poems is one of peculiar delicacy and difficulty.

The nucleus of the city is built on a ridge of rock (Mount Sceberras) which runs like a tongue into the middle of a bay, which it thus divides into two harbours, the Grand Harbour to the east and the Marsamuschetto to the west, which are subdivided again by three other peninsulas into creeks.

Thus unfortunate in his birth, young Hastings received the elements of education at a charity school in his native village.

But in the meantime Colonel Monson had died, and Hastings was thus restored, by virtue of his casting vote, to the supreme management of affairs.

A frame naturally slight had been further attenuated by rigorous habits of temperance, and thus rendered proof against the diseases of the tropics.

Thus the vidame de Picquigny was the representative of the bishop of Amiens, the vidame de Gerberoy of the bishop of Beauvais.

Thus the history of the Nabataeans cannot certainly be carried back beyond 312 B.C., at which date they were attacked without success by Antigonus I.

It became, in fact, essential to invent a " micrometer " for measuring the small angles which were thus for the first time rendered sensible.