How do you use the word "through" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "through" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "through": Many people drift through life without a purpose. Your undaunted spirit will carry you through.

Through Meaning

/θɹuː/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

prepFrom one side or end of (something) to the other.

prepFrom one side or end of (something) to the other., So as to enter (something), pass within or across, and then leave.

Sentence Examples

Many people drift through life without a purpose.

Your undaunted spirit will carry you through.

Put the coffee in the filter and let the water run through.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

done direct

Antonyms:

indirect unfinished

CEFR Practice Quiz

We had to pass ____ the tunnel to get to the other side.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We walked ____ the beautiful forest and enjoyed the fresh air and the many songs of the birds today.

Word Origin & History

From Middle English thrugh, thruch, thruh, metathetic variants of thurgh, thurh, from Old English þurh, from Proto-Germanic *þurhw (“through”), from Proto-Indo-European *tr̥h₂kʷe, suffixed zero-grade from *terh₂- (“to pass through”) + *-kʷe (“and”). Cognates Cognate with North Frisian döör (“through”), Saterland Frisian truch (“through”), West Frisian troch (“through”), Dutch door (“through”), German durch (“through”), Luxembourgish duerch (“through”), West Flemish deur (“through”), Yiddish דורך (durkh, “through”), Gothic 𐌸𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌷 (þairh, “through”), Latin trans (“across, over, through”), Albanian tërthor (“through, around”), Welsh tra (“through”). See also thorough.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"A “moving platform” scheme[…]is more technologically ambitious than maglev trains even though it relies on conventional rails. Local trains would use side-by-side rails to roll alongside intercity trains and allow passengers to switch trains by stepping through docking bays." — 2013 June 1, “Ideas coming down the track”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8838, page 13 (Technology Quarterly):

"Risk is everywhere.[…]For each one there is a frighteningly precise measurement of just how likely it is to jump from the shadows and get you. “The Norm Chronicles”[…]aims to help data-phobes find their way through this blizzard of risks." — 2013 June 22, “Snakes and ladders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 76:

"Inf America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result. If the bumf arrived electronically, the take-up rate was 0.1%. And for online adverts the “conversion” into sales was a minuscule 0.01%." — 2013 May 25, “No hiding place”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8837, page 74:

"Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them." — 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:

"I stumbled along through the young pines and huckleberry bushes. Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path that, I cal'lated, might lead to the road I was hunting for. It twisted and turned, and, the first thing I knew, made a sudden bend around a bunch of bayberry scrub and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter I, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

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