thro
preposition
archaic spellings of through.
thro
American
[throo]
/ θru /
Or
thro'
preposition
Archaic.
thro'
British
/ θruː /
preposition
Example Sentences
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"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
An arrased doorway right leads thro a passage to the street gate, and one left to the penetralia of the house, from which Marina enters deeply troubled.
From Porzia by Rice, Cale Young
Unless his father, strange and terrible, And mighty thro austerities—one whose Curse were as heavy as an hundred births—!
From The Immortal Lure by Rice, Cale Young
Down thro Florida keys I'm going, I'm going!
From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young
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
He could not stomach Emerson's innocent blandness towards evil: "Enough of this Plato who talks thro' his nose!"
From Time Magazine Archive
And as we cannot have too many of so good a Race, I hope you and Madame de la Fayette will go thro' the Thirteen .
From Time Magazine Archive
Their mutual affection “accompanied us thro’ long and important scenes,” he wrote, and “the different conclusions we had drawn from our political reading and reflections were not permitted to lessen mutual esteem.”
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
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