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Sentence count:287+74Posted:2016-07-15Updated:2026-10-12
Antonym: from. Similar words: bo, Co., do., do, go, no, so, toe. Meaning: [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).. 
91 A fool may sometimes speak to the purpose. 
92 Teach your grandmother to suck eggs. 
93 Activity is the only road to knowledge. 
94 You are never too old to learn. 
95 It is never too late to learn. 
96 Love all, trust a few[Sentence dictionary], be false to none. 
97 Keep your breath to cool your porridge. 
98 To be virtuous is to do good. 
99 An nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse. 
100 To make good use of life.one should have in youth the experience of advanced years,and in old age the vigor of youth. 
101 He who allows himself to be insulted, deserves to be. 
102 We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. 
103 It is a great art to laugh at your own misfortune. 
104 It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error. 
105 I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hot houses of learning do not always grow anything edible. 
106 In education we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life. 
107 It is a blind silly goose that comes to the fox’s sermon. 
108 Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. 
109 Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. 
110 Better a little fire to warm us, than a great one to burn us. 
111 They that reckon without their host are to reckon twice. 
112 Those that make the best use of their time have none to spare. 
113 It is no honour for an eagle to vanquish a dove. 
114 Almost any situation---good or bad ---is affected by the attitude we bring to. 
115 I don'nt know who my grandfather was. I' m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. 
116 A politician is a man who undertands government, and it takes a poiltician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead ten or fifeen years. 
117 The sum ofbehavior is to retain a man's own dignity, without in -truing upon the liberty ofothers. 
118 There is no paradise on earth equal to the union of love and innocence. 
119 For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconveniece. 
120 Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning. 
More similar words: bo, Co., do., do, go, no, so, toe, too, toy, two, ed., Et, etc., F., gob, Gt, pop., up to, VC, VS., a, ad, ago, ah, as, at, atop, auto, be. 
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