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Lexicographically close words:
thur; thurgh; thurh; thursdaie; thurst; thuse; thuswise; thut; thwack; thwart
  1. They plundered and burned Fort Richelieu, which its small garrison had abandoned, thus leaving the colony without even the semblance of protection.

  2. Some of those present seemed to have visitings of real compassion; and a woman asked the priests if it would be wrong to kill him, and thus save him from the fire.

  3. Repeatedly, before the spring, they were thus threatened with starvation.

  4. Thus died Jean de Brébeuf, the founder of the Huron mission, its truest hero, and its greatest martyr.

  5. Thus Indian notions are often interpreted by the light of preconceived ideas.

  6. Thus a week passed, and their defences were nearly completed, when suddenly the war-whoop rang in their ears, and two hundred Iroquois rushed upon them from the borders of the clearing.

  7. Thus this miserable winter wore away, till the opening spring brought new fears and new necessities.

  8. Thus lodged, they remained so long as game could be found within a circuit of ten or twelve miles, and then, subsistence failing, removed to another spot.

  9. Thus their debates were excessively prolix; and the consumption of tobacco was immoderate.

  10. Thus abandoned, the priest kneeled, not to implore succor in his perplexity, but to offer thanks to the Providence which had shielded him thus far.

  11. While the French were thus beset, their Indian allies fared still worse.

  12. Jogues would not taste the meat offered to a demon; and thus he starved in the midst of plenty.

  13. Thus the custom grew like a faith, and a kind of brotherhood was formed, of those who had found more than health at the Inn--who had found themselves.

  14. If it is fair and not cold, Sam and his helpers bring out the long narrow table and place it, as Veronese places his feasters, lengthwise beneath the colonnade, and thus the evening meal is served.

  15. Thus he sat and confessed his patients one after another, and his dark eyes seemed familiar with all man's woes, as if he had listened always.

  16. Thus was the Inn and its Master in the year when he touched sixty, and his hair and beard were more white than gray.

  17. Thus insensibly for the Novice there begins the life of the place, opening in a gentle and persistent routine that takes him in its flow and carries him on with it.

  18. Thus the man of the city lightly turned the compliment, and extended his hand, which the Master took slowly, gazing meanwhile steadily at his guest.

  19. There was little medicine to be found in the Inn: the sick labored as they could and thus grew strong.

  20. He laughed merrily at the idea of thus working on a slate, and some two or three days afterwards he made me a present of his bundle of pencils and paper.

  21. Possibly some of them may have uncomfortable recollections of the Mansion House, and thus take revenge on the Lord Mayor and his colleagues by using them--in the shape of jemmies--for burglarious purposes!

  22. A flood of renewed light came in at the studio window--for the afternoon was still young--and Mr. Cooper stood for a moment by the side of the picture and was thus photographed.

  23. The New Scotland Yard Museum will provide much practical information on the ways and means which our friend the enemy utilizes for the purpose of thus annoying you.

  24. Thither I proceed, and thus get a glance of the enormous amount of business devolving upon the Ambassador and his secretaries.

  25. The acquaintance thus begun has lasted many years, and has become a rather close friendship.

  26. Plainly it could not have been treated thus for nothing, and the only possible object would have been to prevent it igniting accidentally.

  27. He thus was one of the party in the Faubourg Saint-Germain which nobly stood out against Napoleon's blandishments.

  28. I could thus measure the space, granted by a chance of which I knew not the cause.

  29. Allah, whose servant he was, who had led him thus far, would lead him onward still, to the glorious end.

  30. Thus it happened that the Triple Tiara seemed to come, for a moment, within the grasp of the late Archdeacon of Chichester; and the cautious hand refrained.

  31. While he was thus engaged, he had a slight attack of smallpox.

  32. Thus sustained and assisted, thus slaved for and adored, she prepared to beard the Bison.

  33. It was thus obvious that the Royal Supremacy was still a fact, and that a collection of lawyers appointed by the Crown had the legal right to formulate the religious doctrine of the Church of England.

  34. Thus it became a dogma of faith that a Papal definition regarding faith or morals is infallible; but beyond that, both the Holy Father and the Council maintained a judicious reserve.

  35. He had a passion for map-making, and had already, in his leisure hours, made a careful survey of the country round Shanghai; he was thus able to execute a series of manoeuvres which proved fatal to the enemy.

  36. Thus it was natural that when the twelve noblemen and gentlemen, who had determined to be guided entirely by the merits of the candidates, found among the testimonials pouring in upon them a letter from Dr.

  37. AS IN THE BOY, SO IN THE GIRL, self-abuse causes an undue amount of blood to flow to those organs, thus depriving other parts of the body of its nourishment, the weakest part first showing the effect of want of sustenance.

  38. Yet, if you had not thus met, you would have carried through life the idea that it would be impossible for you to give your fellowship to such an individual.

  39. The girl who allows a young man the privilege of kissing her or putting his arms around her waist before engagement will at once fall in the estimation of the man she has thus gratified and desired to please.

  40. Disease and debility are thus propagated from one generation to another and the American race becomes woefully deteriorated.

  41. He gave them to us so that we may reproduce life, and thus fill the highest position in the created universe.

  42. Find something to truthfully praise and commend; thus make yourself agreeable.

  43. A very large proportion of the works thus put in circulation are of the worst character, tending to corrupt the principles, to inflame the passions, to excite impure desire, and spread a blight over all the powers of the soul.

  44. Menstruation during nursing is more likely to weaken the mother, and consequently to deteriorate her milk, and thus make it less sweet and less pure.

  45. When, by thus putting their shoulder to the wheel, the fire is fairly subdued, they turn round and point exultingly to the martoe as the Hercules that has procured the result.

  46. Having thus made heavy the heart of another, I continued on my way feeling somehow greatly cheered only to find upon entering my barracks that my blankets were in the lucky bag.

  47. Thus I departed with my kind and never did the odor of gasoline smell sweeter in my nose than did the fumes that were being emitted by the impatient flivver that waited without the gate.

  48. I abandoned my gun and stood sideways, thus decreasing the possible area of danger.

  49. Thus Fogerty and I departed, banished even from our dusky St. Helena.

  50. Thus he began: "It was during the summer of 1888, some thirty odd years ago," quoth he.

  51. Thus did this good King lament: But alas!

  52. Thus did this good King lament: But, alas, to no Purpose, the Priest had given him his Bane, and Complaints were ineffectual.

  53. I then had never been thus basely Poison'd!

  54. In many cases the ruled copy is moved round a quarter of a circle during the exposure, thus resulting in the effect of double ruling, the lines intersecting each other at right angles.

  55. Illustration] Thus I have endeavoured to indicate the principal uses of illustrations.

  56. Imitate, and copy if you like, up to a certain degree, remembering always that you are thus copying merely to ascertain by what means other men express their ideas in line, and not for your own practice.

  57. The roulette consists of a sharp-edged toothed wheel of minute proportions, which is passed backwards and forwards across lines which have come up too black, thus breaking such lines into tiny dots, which therefore print greyer.

  58. Thus on a bed of zinc we have an ink image on a substratum of albumen, the exact copy of the original.

  59. Of the various kinds of originals thus utilised, probably the two most common are photograms and wash-drawings.

  60. We shall thus have a negative having the appearance of a very fine lattice of transparent glass on an opaque ground.

  61. Thus in the "Boy gathering Wortleberries" the figure forms a vertical line; there are no strong oblique lines, and therefore the middle distance takes the form of a horizontal line.

  62. But there seems no reason why the lithographic crayon on rough paper should not be thus utilised, and slight "touchings-up" added afterwards.

  63. In thus softening, however, care should be exercised not to graduate one tone into another, but leave everything firm and distinct, the same restriction of tones being observed as in the other methods referred to previously.

  64. Thus did those who were before them give the lie (to Allah's messengers) till they tasted of the fear of Us.

  65. Y: And thus do We recompense him who transgresses beyond bounds and believes not in the Signs of his Lord: and the Penalty of the Hereafter is far more grievous and more enduring.

  66. P: Thus they will give you the lie regarding what ye say, then ye can neither avert (the doom) nor obtain help.

  67. S: They said: The requital of this is that the person in whose bag it is found shall himself be (held for) the satisfaction thereof; thus do we punish the wrongdoers.

  68. Thus Allah maketh clear His revelations for you, that haply ye may understand.

  69. Thus did those before them; is then aught incumbent upon the messengers except a plain delivery (of the message)?

  70. P: Thus have We revealed it, a decisive utterance in Arabic; and if thou shouldst follow their desires after that which hath come unto thee of knowledge, then truly wouldst thou have from Allah no protecting friend nor defender.

  71. Thus have We made them subject unto you, that haply ye may give thanks.

  72. Thus Allah maketh clear the revelations for you.

  73. S: And when he attained his maturity and became full grown, We granted him wisdom and knowledge; and thus do We reward those who do good (to others).

  74. Say: These are for the believers in the life of this world, purely (theirs) on the resurrection day; thus do We make the communications clear for a people who know.

  75. S: Thus have We caused it to enter into the hearts of the guilty.

  76. P: Thus was the word of thy Lord concerning those who disbelieve fulfilled: That they are owners of the Fire.

  77. Thus too we may explain the great difference in the state of the text as found in different plays.

  78. And thus his unequalled zeal and industry have never received from the public the recognition they deserved.

  79. Whether from the sanction thus given, or from its typographical beauty, or from the plausibility of its new readings, this edition continued in favour, and even 'rose to the price of 10l.

  80. Thus we have learned to scan lines by iambuses, or rather by their accentual imitations, and a perfect line would consist of ten syllables, of which the alternate ones bore a rhythmical stress.

  81. As the 'setters forth' are thus convicted of a 'suggestio falsi' in one point, it is not improbable that they may have been guilty of the like in another.

  82. Rather let them domineer over you than try to manage them by appealing to their father, and, thus making them feel sure that you are attempting to prejudice him against them.

  83. When the disease of inebriety has gone thus far she cannot save him, but she can look to it that her hand does not give the final touch, which is death.

  84. Shall not this appeal be the Alexander to cut the Gordian knot which has, thus far, defied the dexterity and strength of all who have wrestled with the problem?

  85. Gossip is their meat and drink, and it does not occur to them, or they do not care, that they are paid the same wages for time thus spent as for the hours at the tubs and ironing-board.

  86. We swallow half-chewed food, thus throwing undue labor on the stomach.

  87. If we thus openly defy all her laws, can we wonder if the kind but just mother calls us to account for it?

  88. I believe that every woman who reads this talk has an unerring feminine instinct which will thus prompt her when she meets her own particular "Dr.

  89. Were the unmannerly habit of turning the leaves of a book with the moist thumb or finger indulged in by all readers, the probabilities are that numberless diseases would thus be transmitted from one person to another.

  90. Acquire the habit of thus putting the matter before your mind's eye, and you will soon find that tactful patience becomes second nature.

  91. It would seem incredible that any person should so far neglect all semblance of civility as to accept a place thus offered as a matter of course.

  92. Thus we stood for a few seconds, when Brigadier Hope passed the signal for the assault on the Begum's Kothee.

  93. So died the brave and God-fearing Robert Tucker, the glory of the Bengal Civil Service, and thus ended the defence of Futtehpore by one solitary Englishman against hundreds of rebels.

  94. After this all our tents were sent into Mahomdee, and we took to the jungles without tents or baggage, merely a greatcoat and a blanket; and thus we remained till after the taking of Mithowlie.

  95. It will thus be seen that the assertion that Major Hodson was looting when he was killed is untrue.

  96. The horses would thus be trained to gallop straight on, and no square of infantry would be able to resist a charge of well-trained cavalry when it came to actual war.

  97. Thus was the death of the unfortunate Jamie Green avenged.

  98. The force in the Residency would thus be able to assist and to distract the enemy by advancing from their side to meet us at the Chutter Munzil and other positions.

  99. Thus fate separated them, and in the lapse of a year such terrible misfortune came to the girl's parents that she was forced into a marriage with wealth--a barter of her white body for an old man's gold.

  100. A tree thus shriven and trimmed is the Cree cenotaph to one held in almost spiritual reverence, and the tree far up on Reindeer Lake is one of the half dozen or more "lob-sticks" dedicated to Meleese.

  101. It was thus that his grandfather had set forth one summer day to avenge a wrong, nearly seventy years before.

  102. The responsibility of Parliament is really criminal, since it always allows its legislation to be made ineffective by the fear of diminishing the employers' profits, thus deliberately placing money-making above human life and human well-being.

  103. The Limited Liability Act was passed in 1855, in order that the public might invest their savings in companies, and thus share in the profits of our industry and commerce.

  104. By the use of fire he was enabled to render both roots and flesh more palatable and more digestible, thus increasing the variety and abundance of his food far beyond that of any species of the lower animals.

  105. No power can rob us of the home thus won by thee.

  106. We must also take account of a special factor, hitherto almost unnoticed, which would tend to intensify the selection thus exercised.

  107. Thus may be initiated the birth of a new era of peaceful reform and moral advancement.

  108. Thus fed, he sat down and began to map out his course.

  109. Thus braced he was all set to shove the strength of his legs against the door in an effort to push it outward.

  110. Welding had thus far proved a task he had not mastered.

  111. Thus encouraged, Robin fed himself, first carefully testing everything on the monkey, who objected to nothing.

  112. Thus far the landscape was the familiar desert of New Mexico, desolate and arid flatland with which Robin had become familiar on the trip down.

  113. Thus had the doctor's gig sounded the night he came,--alas, too late!

  114. He once came thus upon Abel in an upper floor, and the boy fled from him so hastily that he caught his foot in the ladder and fell headlong.

  115. His mind had not slept while the age advanced, and thus it had swelled as it were from the bondage of its earlier passions and prejudices.

  116. Some repairers have been guilty of this practice to a great extent, and many fine instruments have been thus damaged.

  117. These instruments are modelled higher than those of his master, thus showing a singular divergence from the principle of gradual decrease in the height of the model of the Amatis, from Andrew to Nicholas.

  118. A violin of this make which we have seen, has the great fault of having the bass bar cut out of the solid, instead of being glued in, thus contravening the established principles of the art.

  119. This is considered the finest specimen of the Amati skill and was thus described in the catalogue of the sale--"This is justly considered as one of the most beautiful and finest instruments in the WHOLE WORLD.

  120. We cannot part with the reader who has thus far accompanied us in our labours, without making a few remarks on the important subject of repairs.

  121. Thus the finer and more harmonious the thoughts of the mentality that thinks, the more beautiful and perfect will be his achievement in any line of work.

  122. And he felt a sense of gratitude, then repulsion, to the ingratiating person who thus paid him for his good-will.

  123. Esther, excited, is about to ask the two haughty ladies for Reginald Deane's city address, when the floor-walker frowns upon her and thus ends her attempt to secure the desired information.

  124. Thus ended Janet's dream of capturing the richest young oil-financier in the country.

  125. But he created the effect of releasing the tension, and thus destroying much of the fear.

  126. The passengers in these cars were most grateful to Mr. Fabian's party for the information, thus several parties had been benefited, before a crimson car drove up and a handsome young man called to the mechanic.

  127. Thus he expresses God (good) in his ideals.

  128. The windows were placed above the dado, thus being four feet above the floor.

  129. Thus persuaded, they remained and passed a very enjoyable time.

  130. Thus it happened that not long after the Fabian party reached the spot, a camera-man climbed upon a platform built opposite the Palazzo Dario, and took his seat behind the apparatus.

  131. Thus it happened that Angela had to sit beside her brother that day, much to the annoyance of both of them.

  132. Thus Dodo won two allies, and her father unconsciously acquired a splendid friend for times of need.

  133. Mr. Fabian felt encouraged instantly by the wonderful acting of the little man who could thus speak and smile and joke, in face of what was now thundering and rumbling overhead--ever coming nearer the group huddling under the cliffs.

  134. If you obey that idealistic desire and work the best you know how, God sends added understanding and assistance to help you perfect the object, thus it becomes good and true.

  135. After the assault had been thus successfully repulsed water was served out, a meal was cooked, and the men allowed to sleep in turns.

  136. He exacted a tithe of their profits from all, merchants or agriculturists, and the money thus accumulated, he changed into gold at a rate of exchange fixed by himself.

  137. A strategical move of the highest importance had thus been effected and an almost impregnable position turned without the firing of a single shot.

  138. The bold offensive thus taken by the Guides undoubtedly had a good effect.

  139. The story of the day's fighting may thus be briefly told.

  140. The fort is thus situated for the purpose of maintaining water, and at the time of its construction breech-loading rifles were not in possession of the people of the country, so that the fort could not then be fired into.

  141. Thus if the real value of a Russian gold coin was Rs.

  142. Thus brilliantly was an exceptionally strong position carried, and the first obstacle which lay in the path of the Southern column of the Relief Force brushed away.

  143. Oh, her mother would quite like all that, though she would be disappointed to learn that there had thus far been no rejected suitors.

  144. Belgium was thus bound in honour to defend her own independence.

  145. Thus reasoning, by turns filled with hope and despair, he gradually approached the principal entrance of the church.

  146. After a second order had proved unavailing, the King shot the chauffeur and himself drove the car to his destination, thus defeating an attempt to betray him into the hands of the Teutons.

  147. Thus it had been for many years, when suddenly without any apparent cause the union of the rich Germans was interrupted in the most complete manner.

  148. It was Philip's ambition to consolidate all the Belgic provinces under the rule of Burgundy, and thus to create a strong border state between France and Germany, and he was not too scrupulous as to the means he used in attaining his end.

  149. Thus he stood in this turmoil of din and roar and finally when it ended he demanded--in the mousiest squeak of a voice imaginable, a small fee for beer money.

  150. To abuse thus my friendship, my confidence; that calls for revenge.

  151. Thus on returning before his neighbours his looks evinced so much joy and pride that Schuermans and his wife, also Dorekens, were perhaps more puzzled than they were an hour before at his profound sorrow.

  152. If he could muster a sufficient force of armed men he might even defy the king, and thus retain his office for a longer time.

  153. It is often thus that we console ourselves.

  154. Grantline's only weapons thus mounted were his search-beam and zed-ray.

  155. It had been done just for that purpose, no doubt--making us sure that the ledge was unoccupied and thus to guard against our own light making a search.


  156. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    accordingly; consequently; either; ergo; hence; identically; letter; like; likewise; precisely; similarly; then; thence; therefore; thus; whence; wherefore


    Some related collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    thus also; thus appears; thus began; thus continued; thus defined; thus describes; thus doing; thus explained; thus expresses; thus far; thus forming; thus given; thus making; thus obtained; thus only; thus prepared; thus recorded; thus referred; thus replied; thus speaks; thus spoke; thus thought; thus treated; thus will; thus writes; thus wrote