Use through in a sentence
Sentences starting with through
- Through it the yellow afternoon light was flooding now, even as then, checkered by the branches in their first fringe of green. [9]
- Through all the years, down beneath everything, there had been the helpless knowledge in her own small, garish mind that she had little sense; now she realized that she was given a chance to atone for all her pettiness by doing one great sensible thing. [11]
- Through the long years of their lives together, he would never know. [9]
- Through all the wrongs which she may suffer by him, there runs this cable of unhappy attraction, testified to by how many sorrowful lives! [11]
- Through the open windows I looked upon a lawn, green with close-shaven turf, set with ancient trees, and variegated with parterres of summer plants in bloom. [4]
- Through the open window the moans of the adjutant could be heard more distinctly. [2]
- Through the open window Honora perceived the form of Joshua asleep in the hammock, his Sunday coat all twisted under him. [9]
- Through the open window came in the scents of summer, the freshness of a new day. [4]
- Through him you will always belong to us. [10]
- Through the storm, which lashed her face with whirling clouds of dust and drops of rain, Barbara reached the little Prebrunn castle. [10]
Sentences ending with through
- After almost killing you I've pulled you through. [13]
- The river-banks are woven with osiers to keep them from washing; and at intervals on the banks are piles of the long withes to be used in emergencies when the swollen streams threaten to break through. [4]
- There warn't a window to it big enough for a dog to get through. [5]
- I think you were disposed to do it in that street we drove through. [8]
- You know as well as I do that Jethro has agreed to put the bill through. [9]
- That was the way he "put her through. [6]
- Well, isn't there water enough in it now to go through? [5]
- The little schoolhouse was the only building in Brampton he had glanced at as he came through. [9]
- I knew it was not wide enough; still, I thought that by keeping strict watch and wasting no space unnecessarily I could crowd through. [5]
- Tom said she was going to get one of us, sure, before we got through. [5]
Short sentences using through
- And all through your blundering. [5]
- They squeaked through underneath. [5]
- We shall pull through. [4]
- Nothing could leak through. [11]
- Carnac'll see it through. [11]
- She can see through things. [11]
- You won't go through it. [9]
- And they went through him. [5]
- A shiver passed through him. [11]
- Oh, I see through him! [10]
Sentences containing through two or more times
- The jaws, together with their muscles, would then have been reduced through disuse, as would the teeth through the not well understood principles of correlation and economy of growth; for we everywhere see that parts, which are no longer of service, are reduced in size. [1]
- One there is who knows him through and through, and hath little joy in the knowing. [11]
- For a little while we are going to gallop through the years as before we have ambled through the days, although the reader's breath may be taken away in the process. [9]
- The coach we were in had a neat hole through its front--a reminiscence of its last trip through this region. [5]
- But the chances were I should not have developed it, since it would seem that any salvation for me at least must come precisely through suffering, through not getting what I wanted. [9]
- Fifty years ago we passed through, in all essentials, what France has been passing through during the past two or three years, in the matter of periodical frights, horrors, and shudderings. [5]
- Harry had a way of casually mentioning western investments, through lines, the freighting business, and the route through the Indian territory to Lower California, which was calculated to give an importance to his lightest word. [5]
- I made my way cautiously through the streets towards the cathedral, for I owed a duty to the poor soldier who had died in my arms, through whose death I had been able to enter the town. [11]
- His disturbed brain was like some dark wood through which flew songless birds with wings of night; through which sped the furtive dwellers of the grass and the earth-covert. [11]
- At first it was distant; but it rapidly approached, tearing through the night and apparently through the tree-tops, like the harsh cry of a web-footed bird with a snarl in it; in fact, as I said, a squawk. [4]
More example sentences with the word through in them
- An' we have--what you've lived through these last months. [13]
- Now, in his youth, Caracalla went through his courses of philosophy. [10]
- If the agile youth could reach this cleft unseen, and crawl through as far as the pool of saltwater, overgrown with tall grass and tangled desert shrubs, at which it ended, he might, aided by the clouds, succeed. [10]
- You 'll find yourself a very odd piece of property after you 've been through these experiences. [6]
- I passed through your village that very night, and was his guest till the midnight train came along. [5]
- I passed through your town at a certain time, and received a deep offence which I had not earned. [5]
- I can read your soul through your eyes, and it seems to me that things have gone wrong with you since the keeper of your stud arrived here. [10]
- Go back to your people as their chiefs, and tell them that through you the Big Knives have granted peace to your nation. [9]
- When I read your letter first, a flood of fire seemed to run through my veins; then I became as though I had been dipped in ether, and all the winds of an arctic sea were blowing over me. [11]
- If you keep your heart pure, and constantly think of the time which shall be fulfilled for each of us, to our ruin or to our salvation, you will pass unharmed through this great peril. [10]
- And I'll hold your hand all through it--yes, I will! [11]
- You with all your forces fall on the unfortunate Mortier and his one division, and even then Mortier slips through your fingers! [2]
- I submit for your consideration the expediency of regaining that part of the District and the restoration of the original boundaries thereof through negotiations with the State of Virginia. [7]
- Mr. Noble--"Senator Dilworthy, your bank account shows that up to that day, and even on that very day, you conducted all your financial business through the medium of checks instead of bills, and so kept careful record of every moneyed transaction. [5]
- Some one person--some young woman, it must be--had produced a singular impression upon him since those earlier perilous experiences through which he had passed. [6]
- As the bold young woman tapped Gombert lightly on the arm and, with fresh words of invitation, pointed toward the counter, a shiver ran through Barbara's limbs. [10]
- A party of young Puan bucks had decreed it to be their pleasure to encamp in Mr. Brady's yard, to peer through the shutters into Mr. Brady's house, to enjoy themselves by annoying Mr. Brady's family and others as much as possible. [9]
- And all the young people I ever saw in my life was when I rode fast through the villages. [13]
- He gave the young men a pretty fight indeed, and long before they had him conquered the elder guests had made their escape through door and window. [9]
- He was a young man with a praiseworthy ambition to get on in the world, and during his apprenticeship in the office of the Honourable Hilary Vane many letters and documents had passed through his hands. [9]
- Suddenly a tall young man in a white dress with a beautiful sky-blue border appeared through the great gate. [10]
- But for a young lady in long skirts to make her way down that balsam, squirming about and through the stubs and dead limbs, testing each one before she trusted her weight to it, was another affair. [4]
- More than one young gentleman of family had been known to ride through the Place du Vier Prison, hoping to get sight of her, and to offer the view of a suggestively empty pillion behind him. [11]
- Now I want you, if you'll be so good, to go around with me to the Pacific delegation, for I want to rush this thing through and get along home. [5]
- Money may desert you, friends forsake you, enemies grow indifferent to you, but the scarlet fever will be true to you, through thick and thin, till you be all saved or damned, down to the last one. [5]
- I will repay you with my warmest gratitude, for, though the Romans said that Cupid conquered through the eyes, yet Barbara's singing exerted a far more powerful influence over my heart than even her wonderful golden hair. [10]
- I should advise you to appeal to Rumyantsev through Prince Golitsyn. [2]
- Did they show you through the stables? [9]
- He has warned you through the provost-marshal. [11]
- I will see you through safely, and we will not spare the tafia either. [9]
- I have followed you through half the civilized countries of the globe--none of them are good enough. [9]
- All through it you seem to see the pomps of war and hear the rumbling of the drums. [5]
- Now, Colonel, can you picture Jefferson, or Washington or John Adams franking their wardrobes through the mails and adding the facetious idea of making the government responsible for the cargo for the sum of one dollar and five cents? [5]
- I have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles--never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. [5]
- The artist throws you off your guard, watches you in movement and in repose, puts your face through its exercises, observes its transitions, and so gets the whole range of its expression. [6]
- At any rate you must go through the vestibule; you cannot miss your way out of the viridarium. [10]
- At first, as you know, the hope of making him a combatant for the possessions which I have learned through you to regard as the highest and most sacred. [10]
- I can start you in a paragraph that will travel through all the newspapers, from Maine to Texas and from Alaska to Florida. [8]
- I cannot tell you how we have followed you, with what interest and delight through your travels, as you have told their story in your letters to your mother. [6]
- I will teach you how to know, I will lead you through all the north and make you to understand the big things of life. [11]
- Bless me, if you had gone along there some such nights after twelve you might have seen as many as fifteen of us roosting on one limb, with our joints rattling drearily and the wind wheezing through our ribs! [5]
- Everybody here says you can't get a thing like this through Congress without buying committees for straight-out cash on delivery, but I think I've taught them a thing or two--if I could only make them believe it. [5]
- I told him you and I used the Autocrat as a courting book and marked it all through, and that you keep it in the sacred green box with the love letters, and it pleased him. [5]
- I must tell you all now, out of the depth of this trouble through which I am passing. [6]
- But fear gives you a watchful eye and keen, and I read the true name through the scratches, and fled like a deer. [5]
- The oracle guaranteed you a safe road to tread through life. [10]
- Friends in New York and Philadelphia, through Mr. Williams. [6]
- I glanced through yonder letter while talking with the Exegetus; now I will dictate the answer. [10]
- We had as yet only acquired a bowing acquaintance with it, through pleasure excursions to Scutari and the regions round about. [5]
- After a grievous yet hopeful leave-taking I came home again, leaning on his arm, through the cool autumn night. [10]
- There were not yet any ropes or zigzag streaks darting down through the gathering darkness. [13]
- There was a yell at us, and a jingling of bells to stop the engines, a powwow of cussing, and whistling of steam--and as Jim went overboard on one side and I on the other, she come smashing straight through the raft. [5]
- The initiated, after years of wading through the mire, will recognize instantly the significant difference between filthy filth and funny "filth. [5]
- He remembered those years of superfluity with contempt, and as he puffed and panted on his way through the dust, he felt himself swell with satisfaction. [10]
- He published, some years ago, a little volume giving an account of a trip through the Great West, and a very entertaining book it was. [4]
- I lived from year to year With shadows, the strong warders of desire; I learned through them to seek the golden fire That hides itself in Song's bright hemisphere. [11]
- That was the year that Miss Virginia Carvel was given charge of the booth in Dr. Posthelwaite's church,--the booth next one of the great arches through which prancing horses and lowing cattle came. [9]
- And only last year I had cheated him in a trade, giving him a large fish-hook which was partly broken through for three small sound ones. [5]
- He rode, as ye know, through peril to Pango Dooni, bearing the call for help, and he hath helped to save the whole land from the Red Plague. [11]
- Had hell indeed yawned, and were the flames soaring up to the sky through the riven shell of the earth? [10]
- True, the hastily written sentences presented some difficulties even for Biberli, but after glancing through the whole letter, he exclaimed with a satisfied smile: "Just as I expected! [10]
- It had been written just after Georg's return the day before, and ran as follows: "Joyously they march along, Lights are flashing through the panes, In the streets a busy throng Curiosity enchains. [10]
- No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. [5]
- But do you write Barstow that I have left here for a week or so, and in case he should want me he must write me here, or let me know through you. [5]
- He easily descried Wrangle through the gloom, but the others were not in sight. [13]
- She bathed the wound--the bullet had passed clean through the fleshy part of the arm--and then carefully tied the scarf round it over her handkerchief. [11]
- She said she would wait awhile longer, but if at the end of six months I didn't do my duty, she'd see the thing through here among my own people. [11]
- Let him who would sneer at my emotion close this volume here, for he will find little to his taste in my journeyings through Holy Land. [5]
- Ah, if he would only have patience, or if she could keep him distracted through this winter and their night, she might save him. [9]
- Yet perhaps you would not understand them, for you go through life as though you were deaf and blind. [10]
- With Ursel she would be protected from the terrors of solitude, for, besides the old woman's voice, a man's tones also reached her through the open window. [10]
- Danger--oh yes, there would be danger, but Heaven would be good to her; Philip should go safe through storm and war, and some day great honours would be done him. [11]
- Obviously no animal would be capable of admiring such scenes as the heavens at night, a beautiful landscape, or refined music; but such high tastes are acquired through culture, and depend on complex associations; they are not enjoyed by barbarians or by uneducated persons. [1]
- Anybody but pap would a waited and seen the day through, so as to catch more stuff; but that warn't pap's style. [5]
- The service was worth coming seven miles to participate in!--it was about two hours long, and one might well feel as if he had performed a work of long-suffering to sit through it. [4]
- Relieved of the worst of her griefs, Agne followed her new friend through the streets and lanes, till they paused at the gate of a small garden and he said: "Here we are. [10]
- Not for the world would a young creature like Iris have let such words escape her, or such thoughts pass through her mind. [6]
- There are elaborate works for reducing the blue rock and passing it through one process after another until every diamond it contains has been hunted down and secured. [5]
- His horses had worked their way with the sleigh through the deep snow in the ravine with much difficulty, and, half-frozen, he went directly to the refectory and there asked for his son. [10]
- When we had worked our way through their reserves and gotten their confidence, we found that they secretly harbored French hearts in their bodies. [5]
- I have no words to describe what I went through in that vile, foul-smelling place. [9]
- Upon these two words he stamped, through them he perspired mightily, and with them he clenched his stubby fingers--such fingers as dug trenches, or snatched lewdly at soft flesh, in days of barbarian battle. [11]
- Love was the word that rang out, as one calling through the garden, and her thoughts ran molten. [9]
- She drew her wool down through the canvas and, scarcely able to refrain from laughing, stooped as if trying to make out the pattern. [2]
- We were among woods and rocks, hills and gorges--so shut in, in fact, that when we peeped through a chink in a curtain, we could discern nothing. [5]
- Who devised the wonderful machinery which automatically drives its renewing and refreshing streams through the body, day and night, without assistance or advice from the man? [5]
- It is no wonder that there should be such when we remember what have been the teachings of the priesthood through long series of ignorant centuries. [6]
- And with that womanly gesture which has been the same through the ages she put up her hand; deftly tucking in the stray wisp behind. [9]
- As of old, without her knowledge, he did many things for her through the same Maitresse Aimable. [11]
- It was not without great fear and trepidation that little Nell slipped off her shoes and gliding through the store-room of old curiosities, where Mr Brass--the ugliest piece of goods in all the stock--lay sleeping on a mattress, passed into her own little chamber. [12]
- After two days without food or drink, I managed to get out through the barred window. [11]
- He got through without a mistake--flawless and precious triumph. [5]
- He had been within an ace of losing his Katterle forever, and through no one's guilt save that of the man on whose truth and steadfastness she so firmly relied. [10]
- We took them with us and marched into Orleans next day through the usual tempest of welcome and joy. [5]
- Lucilla nursed him with unfailing devotion and enjoyed the longed-for monopoly of his attentions through a period of much suffering. [10]
- Sleepless, yet filled with triumphant joy, like a general who has won a glorious victory, he watched through the night. [10]
- We got through with this work at six in the evening. [5]
- Trafford was alone with the woman through whom his life had been turned awry. [11]
- And that night, with the stars jumping and the air biting cold (for we were up in the 40's), and the John wish-washing through the seas at three leagues the hour, MacMuir told me the story of Mungo Maxwell. [9]
- He was familiar with the rooms of the Golden Cross, and before midnight would have posted the singers and musicians so that his Majesty would first learn through his ears the pleasure which they intended to bestow upon him. [10]
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