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Sentence count:254+74Posted: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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151 The bird that can sing and won’t sing must be made to sing. 
152 Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness. 
153 It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument. 
154 If God had meant us to fly he'd have given us wings. 
155 The evil [evils] we bring on ourselves are the hardest to bear. 
156 A lie begets a lie till they come to generation. 
157 What is a man's first duty? The answer is brief ; to be himself. 
158 When one is about to act,[http://sentencedict.com/to.html] one must reason first. 
159 There is but one step from the sublime to the ridiculous. 
160 The greatest of faults is to be conscious of none. 
161 To youth I have but words of counsel -- work, work[sentencedict.com], work. 
162 Poverty is an abnormality to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell. 
163 Without method, little can be done to any good purpose. 
164 You can lead a man up to the university, but you can't make him think. 
165 The most sublime act is to set another before you. 
166 Real knowledge, like everything else of value, is not to be obtained easily, it must be worked for, studied for, thought for, and more than all, must be prayed for. 
167 Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human in-telligence long enough to get money from it. 
168 It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody. 
169 Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. 
170 Oh, I am not going to die, am I? He will not separate us, we have been so happy. 
171 There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun. 
172 The important thing in life is to have a great aim, and thedetermination to attain it. 
173 Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive ; easy to govern but imposible to slave. 
174 Go to bed with the lamb and rise with the lark. 
175 It is easier to get money than to keep it. 
176 Life is a comedy to him who thinks and a tragedy to him who feels. 
177 The only man who is really free is the one who can turn down an invitation to dinner without giving any excuse. 
178 The people may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false, and to form a correct judgment,Were it fall to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers of newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. 
179 We can't all be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the curb and clap as they go by. 
180 All things will come round to him who will but wait. 
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