put across
Example Sentences
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"I love fusion and I think it's something that needs to be put across, that all music basically is one music."
From BBC • Feb. 6, 2025
“We’re going to continue to see warehouses being put across the street from homes and schools, because it will be OK with the law.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2024
If he were left alone, without lights, sound, projections or Dane Laffrey’s curving, swerving set, he might put across this fable even more convincingly.
From New York Times • Nov. 21, 2022
Baltimore entered 24th among the 30 major league teams in scoring, then put across its highest runs total since beating Oakland 18-2 on Aug. 16, 2015.
From Fox News • Jun. 6, 2021
Kennedy, a folklorist at heart, apparently wanted to put across the most dramatic story possible, and therefore included not only his own anti-Klan activities but those of another man, code-named John Brown.
From "Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything" by Steven D. Levitt
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