thro
preposition
archaic spellings of through.
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thro
American
[throo]
/ θru /
Or
thro'
preposition
Archaic.
thro'
British
/ θruː /
preposition
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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
I member when Price's army kum thro here in '64 or '65 on their way ta Pilot Knob.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume X, Missouri Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
"It's just jolly to have the real thing aboard—none of your tuppenny' a'penny pieces but a geno-wine leddy, thro' and thro'."
From In the Van; or, The Builders by John Price-Brown
Down thro Florida keys, From island, to island!
From Sea Poems 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
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
Birds cheerily chirping in the early day Bards singing of summer, scything thro' the hay.
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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