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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

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

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.

From Sea Poems by Rice, Cale Young

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

From Many Gods 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

Customers should see salami Comin' thro' the rye.

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

He could not stomach Emerson's innocent blandness towards evil: "Enough of this Plato who talks thro' his nose!"

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