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Example sentences for "thro"

Lexicographically close words:
thrive; thrived; thriven; thrives; thriving; throat; throate; throated; throats; throaty
  1. Rupture; protusion of a structure thro the wall which ordinarily contains it.

  2. A straight line passing thro a spherical body between its two poles and about which the body may revolve.

  3. How cood he be servant unto his brethren except thro amalgamashen?

  4. The waves is a rollin mountin high, the litenin flashes ominous thro the gloom, and the deep-mouthed thunder mutters angrily in the distants.

  5. One long and piercin shreek wuz heard thro that house, and wen the inmates rushed into the room they found me inanymate on the floor.

  6. He flung it thro the window to me and past on.

  7. It took posseshun of Seward, and thro his ugly mouth it spoke the words 'the nigger is free,' and there is no more a slave in all the land.

  8. The daie whyche scal astounde the herers rede, Makeynge oure foemennes envyynge hartes to blede, Ybereynge thro the worlde oure rennomde name for aie.

  9. Next thro the ayre he sent his javlyn feerce, That on De Clearmoundes buckler did alyghte, Throwe the vaste orbe the sharpe pheone did peerce, Rang on his coate of mayle and spente its mighte.

  10. As when a flyghte of cranes, that takes their waie In householde armies thro the flanched skie, Alike the cause, or companie or prey, If that perchaunce some boggie fenne is nie.

  11. Kynge Harolde hie in ayre majestic raysd His mightie arme, deckt with a manchyn rare; With even hande a mighty javlyn paizde, Then furyouse sent it whystlynge thro the ayre.

  12. Thro all the Woods they heard the pleasing noise Of chirping Birds, and try'd to frame their voice, And Imitate, thus Birds instructed man, And taught them Songs before their Art began.

  13. To these he may sometimes joyn some short Interrogations made to inanimate Beings, for those spread a strange life and vigor thro the whole Composure.

  14. Lucretius mentions an extraordinary happiness, and as it were Divinity in a Sheaperd's life, Thro Sheapards ease, and their Divine retreats.

  15. I care not, nothing shall hinder my Design, I'll go tho I make my passage thro his Heart.

  16. Don Marcel, and him too but thro a Grate or Window, or at Church; and yet you are sure.

  17. Stand by, I shall forget thou art my Friend else, And thro thy Heart reach hers.

  18. To git the affectashun out ov a man, make him sea sick, (when a man iz sea sick he iz inclined tew thro up all phoolish things).

  19. Those men inform that they passed thro a open Plain all the way to the Town a feiw Trees excepted on the watercourses- they Cross the papillion or the Butterfly Creek within a feiw miles of Camp and near the Village a handsm.

  20. Snow is deep and it is cold our horses Cannot travel thro the the plains,- those people who have Spilt our blood have gorn back?

  21. Canoes The flees my Self and the men got on them in passing thro the plains the Indians had lately lived in Lodges on the Lard.

  22. Reed and the 3 principal Chiefs of the Nations- La Liberty they cought but he decived them and got away- the object of those Chiefs comeing forward is to make a peace with the Mahars thro us-.

  23. Comes in this is Small not more that 15 yards wide a Short Distance above a 3d comes in scattering its waters thro a bottom.

  24. We Encamped on the Lard Side near the place the river passes thro the mountain.

  25. But the people saw thro it in general, & openly declared that they would not hear the proclamation read.

  26. Long live the King of Spain and Portugal: but he lost his Life for his ill-tim'd Loyalty, one of the Conspirators immediately shooting him thro the Head.

  27. She went thro the Street, but without the usual Train of Courtiers and Crowd of People; there was only the Archbishop of Braga with her, who still gave her manifest Tokens of his Respect, even now when he expos'd his Life by so doing.

  28. I was well acquainted with the way, but yet I hired a man to go with me, without which I could not get thro the Watches.

  29. If a Tyger chance to come into their Grounds and kill a Cow, they will take notice of the place thro which he passed, and set a Cross-bow there ready charged.

  30. He ran quite thro the Island unto the Royal City it self, which he set on Fire with the Temples therein.

  31. Of the Religion of his Countrey he makes but a small Profession; as perceiving that there is a greater God, than those that they thro long custom, have and do Worship.

  32. The main River of all is called Mavelagonga; Which proceeds out of the Mountain called Adams Peak (of which afterwards:) it runs thro the whole Land Northward, and falls into the Sea at Trenkimalay.

  33. For it was sixteen miles to the next Town called Parroah, which lay in the Country of Neure Cawlava, and all the way thro a Wilderness called Parroah Mocolane, full of wild Elephants, Tigres and Bears.

  34. Some eight or nine years one after another we followed this Trade, going down into this Countrey on purpose to seek to get beyond the Inhabitants, and so to run away thro the Woods to the Hollanders.

  35. Our way now lay necessarily thro the chief Governors Yard at Colliwilla.

  36. The Dukes of Genoa are Chiefs thereof; and in regard their Dignity lasts but two Years, the Order is much impair’d thro the Inconstancy and Alteration of the Times.

  37. He tells us soon after, thro a small Mistake of Sorrow for Rage, that during the whole Action he was so very sorry, that he thinks he could have attack'd half a score of the fiercest Mohocks in the Excess of his Grief.

  38. Thus we see the Anger of Achilles in its Birth, its Continuance and Effects; and Æneas's Settlement in Italy, carried on thro all the Oppositions in his Way to it both by Sea and Land.

  39. We then see him steering his Course among the Constellations, and after having traversed the whole Creation, pursuing his Voyage thro the Chaos, and entring into his own Infernal Dominions.

  40. I once had gone thro half a Satyr, but found so many Motions of Humanity rising in me towards the Persons whom I had severely treated, that I threw it into the Fire without ever finishing it.

  41. That great Man had a desire to give the World something like an Epick Poem; but he resolv'd at the same time to break thro the Rules of Aristotle.

  42. It is observed by those who would set forth the Greatness of Virgil's Plan, that he conducts his Reader thro all the Parts of the Earth which were discover'd in his time.

  43. Should he go thro Springfield I wish to know whether you could furnish him with an Escort to General Washingtons Head Quarters.

  44. This passes thro the Hands of Count de Noailles, whom you did me the Honor to introduce to me.

  45. You shall have a Copy of it when it can be got thro the Press.

  46. Let me remark here that it is no Wonder he has exposd himself to the Resentment of a Man thro whose hands the Chief of the money passed.

  47. The Cession of those Territories would prevent any Views of Britain to disturb our Peace in future & cut off a Source of corrupt British Influence which issuing from them, might diffuse Mischiefe and Poison thro the States.

  48. As the Subject is delicate, I do not chuse to continue it in this Letter, which is to go thro a Channel provd from repeated Experience to be uncertain & unsafe.

  49. The Roads thro the Country are so blockd up by incessant & heavy Snows, that it has been impracticable for the Members to attend.

  50. We shall not be obligd to them; and they will hereafter be more sensible of our Importance when they find that we have struggled thro our Difficulties without them.

  51. We have directed & authorizd Gen1 Lovel to call in the Militia & have sent him a Proclamation to disperse thro the Eastern Counties.

  52. The Bearer of this Letter is a young Gentleman of your Country who is passing thro this place in his way home.

  53. You will recollect a Design which I mentiond to you respecting our Friend Mr L, & the Omission which, we were informd the Evening before I left Boston, had happend thro Mistake.

  54. Afflicted and distressed, but thro rich undeserved mercy not wholly forsaken, T.

  55. Though Greece touches few Yankee settlers thro the medium of classical associations yet a people struggling to free themselves from foreign bondage is sure to find warm hearts in every native of the wilderness.

  56. We will do something thro the Country--We have set the Parsons to work and one shilling a head will make a good donation.

  57. Only thro you do I believe in myself, for tho I told you with so much assurance just now that I was your brother, I doubted my own words.

  58. All the evil which his family had suffered from Volpetti flashed thro lis mind and outweighed Naundorffs interests; he forgot the papers for his own grievances, especially his brother's body hanging from the gibbet.

  59. The preservation of those documents, thro all these years of vicissitudes is the knot which I cannot unravel.

  60. There is no night I suffer thro But Destiny rules stern and pale: And yet what I am meant to do I will do, ere Death drop his veil.

  61. And thro its magic doors You seem like a spirit flower, Wandering back from Allah's bourne To seek for some lost boon.

  62. Let him but lean for half an hour Over her lips and he will swear That he would dive thro death unfathomed To regain her there.

  63. I'm tramping thro the mountains, With the clouds for my companions, Soft clouds that float and cling From crag to cloven crag.

  64. So again to idols Of the Buddha who is boundless, While the temple drum is beating thro the rain, I have turned from treason Into Meditation's truth, From the strife the Western god regards as gain.

  65. Quickly the brief bat wends His flittering way, thro flowing Fields of the autumn air, That are husht of the city's sound.

  66. Now her lights are lost in tides Of the windy spray that glides Thro the darkness, Lord, abides Thy Dove with her--or Doom?

  67. Who walks thro his world alone e'er lifts A soul that is sorrow-rife.

  68. I'm tramping thro the mountains Where the pines in proud procession Climb like a hardy host To halo-heights of sun.

  69. I'm tramping thro the mountains And the wind is yodling to me Yearnings of the glaciers To flow to summer lands.

  70. And it shall be no little thing, Tho to oblivion it fall, For I shall strive to it thro all That can imperil or appal.

  71. And there in the ominous vast calm They'll harbour, like enchanted Chill shapes he has strangely conjured from The silence of his masterdom; There float till again they feel the qualm Of hunger thro them panted.

  72. On the other hand, they mostly came thro the channel of the Norman or Provençal French; and perhaps we may call them with propriety French words; for they had lost much of their Roman form among the Gauls, Franks and Normans.

  73. In the instances where we have adhered to analogy, no consideration can warrant us in resigning our practice to the authority of a foreign court, which, thro mere affectation, may have embraced many obvious errors.

  74. Let us search thro the language for verbs of this description, and I presume we shall not find another instance, where, in nouns formed from such verbs, by the addition of ment, the seat of the accent is changed.

  75. I suspect that very ancient colonies settled on the shores of the Mediterranean, in Italy and Spain, and thence found their way to Gaul and Britain, before the northern tribes arrived thro Germany and Belgium.

  76. He, who thro vast immensity can pierce, See worlds on worlds compose one universe.

  77. But the body of the people, either for want of opportunity to learn the Latin, or thro an inveterate hatred of their conquerors, continued wedded to their native tongue.

  78. A general uniformity thro the United States, would be the event of such a reformation as I am here recommending.

  79. The same distinction runs thro all the verbs in the language.

  80. Hence words are drawled out in a careless lazy manner, or the sound finds a passage thro the nose.

  81. What seems intrinsically right, is so merely thro habit.

  82. In this example the affinity between the Punic and Irish is striking; and the same runs thro the whole speech.

  83. I suffer much thro want of Intelligence from N E; I pray you therefore let your Letters to me be very frequent.

  84. He that is a Fornicator (that is hath past through the Back of the Port) he must pass twice thro the fore-part, or he cannot have the Advantage of passing that end.

  85. He hunted all thro de house, en up in de loft, en said whar ez de niggers?

  86. I sezs, "I se'd a 'oman kum'g thro de gate.

  87. Down thro Florida keys, Around them, between them, Thro low green Florida keys, So low they scarce seem born of the seas!

  88. Down thro Florida keys I'm going, I'm going!

  89. Who walks thro his world in loneness lifts A soul that is sorrow-rife.

  90. For the moon we are waiting--and behold Her ardent gold drifts up, her sail has caught the breeze That blows all being thro the Universe always.

  91. All the ships of the world come here, Rest a little and then are gone, Over the crystal planet-sphere Swept, thro every season, on.

  92. The moon soon will silver its sinewy flight Thro the night watches, And the far flight Of those immortal migrants, The ever-returning stars.

  93. What memories have I of it thro the years!

  94. So the young heron fishing there in the foam On the sand's edge, Would once have taken my spirit far, far home To the infinite, when he vanished thro the gloam.


  95. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thro" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.

    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    throat trout; throated green; throated sparrow; throbbing heart; through being; through faith; through grace; through his; through patience and comfort; through some; through the; through the open door; through their; through them; through what; through which; through whom; throughout their; throw away; throw down; throw light; throw stones; throw them; thrown down; thrown open; throws himself