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  thro

  preposition

  archaic spellings of through.
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  thro'

  preposition

  variant spellings of through

thro

American  

[throo] / θru /

Or thro'

preposition

Archaic.

1. archaic spellings of through.

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thro' British  

/ θruː /

preposition

1. informal variant spellings of through

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Example Sentences

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thro thro'

"SILVERSTONE NOWCAST: Increasing signs of potential shower / convergence line development from now thro FP3 into quali."

From BBC ● Jul. 9, 2011

Yesterday I got past him because he was so busy yacking to someone that just I walked thro'.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 27, 2010

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.

From Sea Poems by Cale Young Rice

Blessed is the Man whose Strength is in thee, in whose Heart are the Ways of them, who passing thro the Valley of Bacha make it a Well, the Rain also filleth the Pools.

From A Short Essay Toward the Improvement of Psalmody Or, An Enquiry How the Psalms of David Ought to Be Translated into Christian Songs, and How Lawful and Necessary It Is to Compose Other Hymns According to the Clearer Revelations of the Gospel, for the Use of the Christian Church. by Isaac Watts

And burn away his peace— Which is the pearl Of sainthood thro all worlds!

From The Immortal Lure by Cale Young Rice

Tis the crown & glory of organic science that it does thro’ final cause, link material to moral . . . you have ignored this link.

From Scientific American ● Sep. 2, 2019

Birds cheerily chirping in the early day Bards singing of summer, scything thro' the hay.

From Time Magazine Archive

And add to this: Surrealism's parched, miasmic winds Puffed thro' the towers of Glamis. 1st BR.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I went reeling and moaning thro' the streets!" said Henry James of his first visit.

From Time Magazine Archive

“It not only mocks in most instances the power of medicine, but it has spread thro’ several parts of the city remote from the spot where it originated.”

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy