How to Use put through in a Sentence

put through

verb

• About all the ways this show has been put through the ringer.
  — Lesley Goldberg, The Hollywood Reporter, 23 Aug. 2023
• Hoover said he was put through a runaround that left him with nothing.
  — Ron Hurtibise, sun-sentinel.com, 28 Feb. 2021
• She’s really put through the paces in this movie, but ...
  — Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 21 June 2023
• This time, a woman is put through the boxing-movie stations of the cross.
  — Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
• Engines are overhauled and put through their paces on a test stand.
  — David Hambling, Popular Mechanics, 14 July 2023
• Isabella in the Shakespeare text has been put through a wringer.
  — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 25 Sep. 2023
• Even the Stark brood got to chase cats or swoon over princes for a few episodes before getting put through the wringer by the Lannisters.
  — Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 Feb. 2024
• Starting pitcher Bobby Miller was put through the ringer first.
  — Jack Harris, Los Angeles Times, 10 Sep. 2023
• The drop top has already been put through its paces on the historic Lime Rock Park racing circuit, too.
  — Rachel Cormack, Robb Report, 10 Aug. 2023
• In an interview for a job at Jane Street, a trading firm, he’s put through a day of slantwise games.
  — Gideon Lewis-Kraus, The New Yorker, 4 Oct. 2023
• This is especially true for countries that have been put through the ringer.
  — Kenneth Rapoza, Forbes, 1 May 2022
• Plus, they were put through physical challenges to make this movie.
  — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Mar. 2023
• As part of the testing, the capsules are first put through the wringer at the National Buoyancy Lab in Houston.
  — Richard Tribou, Orlando Sentinel, 7 Feb. 2023
• Smack in the middle is Asaf, whom the play proceeds to put through a tribal-political wringer that leaves him — and left me — a limp dishrag.
  — Jesse Green, New York Times, 27 Feb. 2024
• In 2020, one director told me, an actor friend was put through the wringer of a boycott campaign on Twitter.
  — Samanth Subramanian, The New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2022
• And hey, Zoë Kravitz and her claws don’t need to be put through another cancellation.
  — Vulture, 18 Mar. 2022
• Yeti coolers are engineered to be put through tough conditions and still get the job done at the highest level.
  — Ryan Chelius, Field & Stream, 5 Oct. 2023
• Psychiatrists say that for many people who have been put through the wringer over the past decade, the climate extremes are one crisis too many.
  — Jason Horowitz, BostonGlobe.com, 16 Sep. 2023
• The video shows the robotic yak being put through its paces across a desert with a person controlling it by remote control.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 16 Feb. 2022
• The process used about 8 million bottles worth of glass that was taken down to a fine powder, then put through a heating process to become a foaming agent.
  — Ramishah Maruf, CNN, 23 June 2023
• For a heavy-duty cleaner, a degreaser might be good to have on hand if your stovetop has really been put through the wringer.
  — Amber Joglar, Popular Mechanics, 23 Jan. 2023
• Gone are the days of the studio system, when stars were put through rigorous training — some might say light torture — to shine their very brightest.
  — EW.com, 17 Oct. 2023
• The characters weren't the only ones being put through their paces — so were the actors who inhabited them.
  — Dan Snierson, EW.com, 24 Aug. 2022
• Passengers are spotted grabbing the passenger-side grip handle as the car is put through its paces.
  — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024
• Everything is put through the same evaluation process, ensuring deals will benefit the NWSL in both the short and long term.
  — Nancy Armour, USA TODAY, 24 Mar. 2023
• She’s had a real run of playing stoic, mysterious women who get put through the wringer.
  — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 6 Mar. 2022
• Two neighbors meet and strike up a relationship that gets seriously put through the wringer.
  — Stacey Grant, Seventeen, 11 Nov. 2022
• Such claims, countered attorneys for the boy and his mother, trivialized what he was put through.
  — Steve Thompson, Washington Post, 2 Sep. 2022
• Fuqua shows us the torturous agony Peter, his family and the other enslaved people are put through.
  — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
• Each set of tools was put through a series of tasks, like assembling bookshelves, opening paint cans, and tightening eyeglass screws.
  — Barbara Bellesi Zito, Better Homes & Gardens, 3 Mar. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024