adverb
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Toward a closed, touching or engaging position.
example
Please push the door to.
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Into the wind.
preposition
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Indicating destination: In the direction of, and arriving at.
example
We are walking to the shop.
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Used to indicate the target or recipient of an action.
example
He devoted himself to education.
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Used to indicate result of action.
example
His face was beaten to a pulp.
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Used to indicate a resulting feeling or emotion.
example
To everyone's great relief, the tuneless carol singers finally ceased their warbling.
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Used after an adjective to indicate its application.
example
similar to ..., relevant to ..., pertinent to ..., I was nice to him, he was cruel to her, I am used to walking.
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Denotes the end of a range.
example
It takes 2 to 4 weeks to process typical applications.
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As a.
example
With God to friend (with God as a friend); with The Devil to fiend (with the Devil as a foe); lambs slaughtered to lake (lambs slaughtered as a sacrifice); took her to wife (took her as a wife); was sold to slave (was sold as a slave).
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Used to indicate a ratio or comparison.
example
I have ten dollars to your four.
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Used to indicate that the preceding term is to be raised to the power of the following value; indicates exponentiation.
example
Three squared or three to the second power is nine.
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(time) Preceding.
example
ten to ten = 9:50; We're going to leave at ten to (the hour).
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Used to describe what something consists of or contains.
example
Anyone could do this job; there's nothing to it.
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At.
example
Stay where you're to and I'll come find you, b'y.
Examples of to in a Sentence
You've been to Australia, haven't you?
She shook her head to clear it.
My daughter is coming for me to take me there.
Her heart was starting to flutter.
They have got to live a man's life, pushing all these things before them, and get on as well as they can.
I'm going to bed early.
I wish to meet our Sorcerer.
That's easy for you to say.
Two children, brother and sister, were on their way to school.
She has refused to evacuate Malta.
But what about a reasoned belief based on a balanced look at both history and current reality that leads you to be optimistic?
Do you want to see it?
Next to Washington he was the greatest American.
I go up in a balloon, usually, to draw the crowds to the circus.
He instantly gave in to chase her down the hall.
Alex was romantic enough to understand the sentimental significance of the home she had inherited.
I would like to.
In addition to the assistance from the renters, the money finally gave her an income of her own, and the token independence that went with it.
No one wanted to feel forced into anything.
I have much to work with!
He didn't seem to be prompting her.
Analysts declared each successive generation might be "the first to have a lower standard of living than their parents."
Hey, someone has to discover penicillin—it might as well be me.
He has no time to be anything but a machine.
You're supposed to go down to be measured in the morning.
The memory brought goose bumps to her arms.
Then all preferred listening to speaking.
They even agreed to take care of the animals while Alex and Carmen took their first vacation.
She came to the airport with him.
If you need anything at all, be sure to let us know.
If there are, they are liable to be glass oats!
With one hand the little boy clung to his sister's arm, and with the other he held his primer.
Carmen turned and tipped her head back to look at the face of the man who towered over her.
We all knew about his family, but the way he acted, it was as if he wanted to hide them from us.
Somehow talking to him was easy.
We've been away for a long time, you know, and so we're anxious to get home again.
We wouldn't want them to think we were doing anything immoral.
I think she was merely directing the comment at you because she thought you might want to know.
That was when Mary decided to relieve her mind of a troubling thought.
If you have an unwavering commitment to an idea that all things will be good all the time, then that is irrational.
All were surprised to find that he was not with them.
What time are we going to leave tomorrow?
His expression was reflective as he continued to regard her.
She cuddled close to him and lifted her face for his affection.
I can't imagine what he was thinking to hide a thing like that from you.
A live band started playing a waltz and he dropped a hand to her waist.
For a minute there I thought you were going to bolt and run.
They crawled into bed and she rolled on her side with her back to him.
His gaze shifted reflectively to nothing in particular.
What else has happened to make you think she is trying to break us up?