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put across

verb as in convey

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Example Sentences

The slaves fell away from him in surprise and alarm, not understanding what he was trying to put across.

Recover our canoe, and put across the lake to where Will stands on that dock.

The ninth game went to forty-love before Holt succeeded in handling one of the sizzling serves that Amy put across.

It had had, in fact, to be an honest job of ship-building in order to put across a phoney promotion.

"Some pretty shady transactions were put across in those early days," Bryant commented.

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On this page you'll find 466 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to put across, such as: bring about, bring off, deliver, do the trick, give rise to, and lay the foundation of.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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