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saw through

vb. (en-simple pastsee through)

Usage examples of "saw through".

The target was the three hundred disarmed Brigaderos, and it would plow into them like a steam-powered saw through soft wood.

I haven't put in this much work to have somebody saw through the middle of the board.

Many saw through the chaos and recognized a potentially valuable brand, but all tried to steal us blind.

His airs and graces and haughtiness had so imposed upon Blood that it was only now that at last he saw through them, into the fellow's peddling spirit.

Turning his head, he saw through the window--wide open and unbarred, for Nature, at Port Arthur, had no need of bars--the lovely bay, smooth as glass, glittering in the afternoon sun, the long quay, spotted with groups of parti-coloured chain-gangs, and heard, mingling with the soft murmur of the waves, and the gentle rustling of the trees, the never-ceasing clashing of irons, and the eternal click of hammer.

Mollie Gretna endeavored to obtain an extra supply to help Rita, but Kazmah evidently saw through the device, and the endeavor proved a failure.

Presently the poor girl saw through the cloud that spread itself before her eyes the buskin approaching.

While the flanked line brigades of the division had struggled for existence, the Posleen had sliced through the lightly armed and undertrained rear area personnel like a buzz saw through balsa.

Fishbein won't confirm that Julio was cooperating, but the hackers all saw through that.

Even so, one of them managed to saw through the ropes binding his legs with a sharp-edged stone he'd acquired somewhere and made a break for it late on the second day.

The duke and duchess suppressed their laughter so as not altogether to mortify Don Quixote, for they saw through Sancho's impertinence.

But on Ashe's orders he made a running commentary of what he saw through the com.

Two days gone, five of our own people were found in the night trying to saw through the hinges of a horsegate.

Depending on her mood, they ranged in color from gray to a deep, deep blue and they saw through everything.