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Sentence count:254+74 Only show simple sentencesPosted:2016-07-15Updated:2020-07-24
Antonym: fromSimilar words: boCo.do.dogonosotoeMeaning: [tə; before a vowel; tʊ; stressed; tuː]  prep.1. (used for expressing motion or direction toward a point, person, place, or thing approached and reached, as opposed to from): They came to the house. 2. (used for expressing direction or motion or direction toward something) in the direction of; toward: from north to south. 3. (used for expressing limit of movement or extension): He grew to six feet. 4. (used for expressing contact or contiguity) on; against; beside; upon: a right uppercut to the jaw; Apply varnish to the surface. 5. (used for expressing a point of limit in time) before; until: to this day; It is ten minutes to six. We work from nine to five. 6. (used for expressing aim, purpose, or intention): going to the rescue. 7. (used for expressing destination or appointed end): sentenced to jail. 8. (used for expressing agency, result, or consequence): to my dismay; The flowers opened to the sun. 9. (used for expressing a resulting state or condition): He tore it to pieces. 10. (used for expressing the object of inclination or desire): They drank to her health. 11. (used for expressing the object of a right or claim): claimants to an estate. 12. (used for expressing limit in degree, condition, or amount): wet to the skin; goods amounting to $1000; Tomorrow's high will be 75 to 80°. 13. (used for expressing addition or accompaniment) with: He added insult to injury. They danced to the music. Where is the top to this box? 14. (used for expressing attachment or adherence): She held to her opinion. 15. (used for expressing comparison or opposition): inferior to last year's crop; The score is eight to seven. 16. (used for expressing agreement or accordance) according to; by: a position to one's liking; to the best of my knowledge. 17. (used for expressing reference, reaction, or relation): What will he say to this? 18. (used for expressing a relative position): parallel to the roof. 19. (used for expressing a proportion of number or quantity) in; making up: 12 to the dozen; 20 miles to the gallon. 20. (used for indicating the indirect object of a verb, for connecting a verb with its complement, or for indicating or limiting the application of an adjective, noun, or pronoun): Give it to me. I refer to your work. 21. (used as the ordinary sign or accompaniment of the infinitive, as in expressing motion, direction, or purpose, in ordinary uses with a substantive object.) 22. Math. raised to the power indicated: Three to the fourth is 81 (34 = 81). adv.23. toward a point, person, place, or thing, implied or understood. 24. toward a contact point or closed position: Pull the door to. 25. toward a matter, action, or work: We turned to with a will. 26. into a state of consciousness; out of unconsciousness: after he came to. 27. to and fro. See fro (def. 2).. 
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61 All things are obedient to money. 
62 Pains to get, care to keep, fear to lose. 
63 It takes one to know one. 
64 Nothing is impossible to a willing heart. 
64 Wish you can benefit from our online sentence dictionary and make progress day by day!
65 All good things must come to an end. 
66 A discontented man knows not where to sit easy. 
67 Let the cobbler stick to his last. 
68 It is easier to pull down than build. 
69 To the victor go the spoils. 
70 Like draws to like the whole world over. 
71 To make enemies, talk; to make friends, listen. 
72 Evil (be) to him who evil thinks. 
73 It is not good to make a sleeping lion. 
74 All is grist that comes to the mill. 
75 Cut your coat according to your cloth. 
76 It's all grist to the mill. 
77 A word is enough to the wise. 
78 The remedy for injuries is not to remember them. 
79 A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose. 
80 Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 
81 Activity is the only road to knowledge. 
82 You are never too old to learn. 
83 It is never too late to learn. 
84 Love all, trust a few, be false to none. 
85 Keep your breath to cool your porridge. 
86 To be virtuous is to do good. 
87 An nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. 
88 To make good use of life.one should have in youth the experience of advanced years,and in old age the vigor of youth. 
89 We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. 
90 It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error. 
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