be through with

Example Sentences

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He may be through with the past, but the past isn’t through with him in “Chapelwaite.”

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 22, 2021

And he suggested he may not be through with politics after retiring from Congress, leaving open the possibility of running for governor.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 27, 2018

America may have, as recently as 2008, claimed to be through with race as a country, but by 2016, race was clearly not through with us.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 4, 2017

We should be through with that by the middle of next year, 2017.

From Time • May 12, 2016

I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.

From "The Bell Jar" by Sylvia Plath