THROUGHOUT in a Sentence

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This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.

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 Meanings and Examples of THROUGHOUT
Definition Example Sentence Classic Sentence
throughout
 ad.  in every part; in or through all parts; during the entire time or extent
Classic Sentence: (118 in 8 pages)
1  But John Wilkes, famed throughout the state for his hospitality, really knew how to give a barbecue.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER VI
2  "Let him go," she said in a clear voice that carried throughout the tensely quiet room.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XII
3  At Tara and throughout the County, the problem was food.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVIII
4  The Yankee soldiers garrisoned throughout the section and the Freedmen's Bureau were in complete command of everything and they were fixing the rules to suit themselves.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXI
5  Just as Ellen had done, other plantation mistresses throughout the South had put the pickaninnies through courses of training and elimination to select the best of them for the positions of greater responsibility.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVII
6  They had not stealthily taken garden and pasture and cotton field and lawn and reared themselves insolently by the porches of Tara, as they were doing on numberless plantations throughout the state.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XL
7  Scarlett was beyond shame now, beyond any feeling save a wild remorse that she had hurt this gentle creature throughout the long years.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LXI
8  By some tacit consent, throughout the voyage little or no allusion was made to it, especially by the mates.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 28. Ahab.
9  The lower subdivided part, called the junk, is one immense honeycomb of oil, formed by the crossing and recrossing, into ten thousand infiltrated cells, of tough elastic white fibres throughout its whole extent.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 77. The Great Heidelburgh Tun.
10  Unhinge the lower jaw, and the side view of this skull is as the side of a moderately inclined plane resting throughout on a level base.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 80. The Nut.
11  Elsewhere in this volume the slanderous aspersion has been disproved, that the vocation of whaling is throughout a slatternly, untidy business.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 92. Ambergris.
12  This was an easy thing, for the carpenter had been thrusting his shavings into the furnace throughout the passage.
Moby Dick By Herman Melville
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER 96. The Try-Works.
13  His creditor was Wick Cutter, the merciless Black Hawk money-lender, a man of evil name throughout the county, of whom I shall have more to say later.
My Antonia By Willa Cather
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 1. The Shimerdas: VIII
14  There are thousands of such cases throughout the South, with the difference that the Southern white men in insatiate fury wreak their vengeance without intervention of law upon the Afro-Americans who consort with their women.
Southern Horrors By Ida B. Wells-Barnett
Context  Highlight   In III
15  The ordinary stiff dining chairs had been discarded for the occasion and replaced by the most commodious and luxurious which could be collected throughout the house.
The Awakening By Kate Chopin
Context  Highlight   In XXX
Example Sentence: (99 in 7 pages)
16  The government imposed a night-time curfew throughout the country.
17  My family backed me up throughout the court case.
18  Cooking odors can circulate throughout the entire house.
19  Germany's Green party was said to be the forerunner of environmental parties throughout Europe.
20  May success and happiness follow you throughout the year.
21  May good health follow you throughout the year.
22  The theme of freedom recurs throughout her writing.
23  The global economy means that all types of fruit and vegetables are available throughout the year.
24  The house was painted green throughout.
25  The debate about the origins of the universe has been going on throughout recorded history.
26  Many people throughout history have dreamt of a world without war.
27  The manager sat frowning behind his desk throughout the whole interview.
28  I was treated with decorum and respect throughout the investigation.
29  Many minority groups throughout history have been disinherited by the majority.
30  The work of the charity has been widely publicized throughout the media.