Sample Sentences for
thus
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thus as in:  Thus it was necessary.

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Increase law enforcement reduced the supply of the drug and thus increased the cost, but the improvement was partially offset when the increased cost encouraged more supply.
thus = therefore (for that reason)
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    The price of gasoline increased fifty cents this year, thus costing the average driver an additional $250.
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    Jem said he would take me. Thus began our longest journey together.  (source)
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    Only the language of civilized people may be spoken, thus no German.  (source)
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    Thus the story has no picture book for the period May 10, 1991-January 7, 1992.  (source)
    Thus = therefore (for that reason)
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    Thusly I followed the progress of the war, what was left of it.†  (source)
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    The reason is that mammalian red cells have no nuclei, and thus no DNA in their red cells.  (source)
    thus = for that reason
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    I had no particular reason for having decided this—particularly given that I hadn't read the book—but I decided it and reacted thusly.†  (source)
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    He had not got the conch and thus spoke against the rules; but nobody minded.  (source)
    thus = therefore (for that reason)
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    Do the dwarves treat all their blades thusly?†  (source)
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    It was an elegant deception, a mental pirouette. The toe was not broken because it was not breakable. Only an X-ray could prove otherwise. Thus, the X-ray would break my toe.  (source)
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    Thusly I got to the edge of the herd, tumbled off'n the last one, an' rescooed the gurl.†  (source)
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    I'm one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.  (source)
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    Eragon felt sick hearing his mother described thusly.†  (source)
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thus as in:  betrayed her thus

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She read my diary and mocked my most private thoughts in public. My worst fears realized thus; I avoided friends between classes.
thus = in that way
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    Having betrayed her thus, he was not surprised when she broke up with him.
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    Had Tim Johnson behaved thus, I would have been less frightened.  (source)
    thus = that way
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    Nice loud howl, Harry — exactly — and then, if you'll believe it, I pounced — like this — slammed him to the floor — thus with one hand, I managed to hold him down — with my other, I put my wand to his throat —I then screwed up my remaining strength and performed the immensely complex Homorphus Charm — he let out a piteous moan — go on, Harry — higher than that — good — the fur vanished — the fangs shrank — and he turned back into a man.  (source)
    thus = in this way
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    Squeezed by the muscles of the gizzard, the stones helped crush tough plant food before it reached the stomach, and thus aided digestion.  (source)
    thus = in that way
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    He filled his bottle with river water, lit a candle for himself and one for Lina, and thus equipped, they left the boat behind and crept up the rocky shelf to the path.  (source)
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    But wisdom prevailed in the camp of the faithful and many lives were thus saved.  (source)
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    One theory was that the devastation had been created by the Americans using something called HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program) technology, which causes huge waves under the ocean, thus flooding our land.  (source)
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    The faces of those enameled creatures meant nothing to him, though he talked to them and stood in that church for a long time, trying to be of that religion, trying to know what that religion was, trying to get enough of the raw incense and special dust of the place into his lungs and thus into his blood to feel touched and concerned by the meaning of the colorful men and women with the porcelain eyes and the blood-ruby lips.  (source)
    thus = in this way
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    So were the cables for the trim, which gave the pilot fine control of the plane's attitude—its orientation in the air—and thus greatly reduced the effort needed to handle the plane.  (source)
    thus = in that way
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    "Fools!" laughed Bard, "to come thus beneath the Mountain's arm!"  (source)
    thus = in this way
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    We are not our own masters. We are God's property. Is it not our happiness thus to view the matter?  (source)
    thus = in that way
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    Almost a fortnight passes thus in eating, drinking and roaming about.  (source)
    thus = that way
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    They ran thus: ...  (source)
    thus = in this way
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meaning too rare to warrant focus

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I am glad that my weak words Have struck but thus much show of fire from Brutus.  (source)
thus = to this extent
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